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Brand Merchandiser, Womens Polo, Ready to Wear
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Positionsübersicht:
Coordinate, Manage, and execute the activities of Merchandising for Women’s Polo. Assist senior leadership in developing, executing, and communicating a product strategy that meets or exceeds financial goals and global product strategy.
Grundlegende Aufgaben und Verantwortlichkeiten:
- Develop and partner with the brand planning team on building seasonal Global Line Plans
- Create super season category strategies inclusive of style and SKU plans, ensuring alignment to global brand strategy and LRP targets
- Directly partner with regional buying partners in combination with trend driven market research to anticipate the needs of the business and identifying category opportunity
- Share and present back to design partners to influence seasonal development
- Prepare and present weekly analysis on sales trend and sell through, volume drivers and SKU productivity to influence business driving recommendations
- Attend weekly cross-functional team meetings, driving product category and managing changes. Attend Design meetings. Directly manage OK to BUY process.
- Manage in partnership with merchandising ops the creation and daily maintenance of data in VIBE/GFE; including accurate & timely data entry & system updates for all merchandising item definition and line changes; ensuring all cross-functional teams are in alignment.
- Communicate and distribute all critical merchandising information to key functional areas on a timely basis.
- Presentation of line assortment to direct cross functional partners at the time of adoption and line opening presentations
- Knowledge of competition and trends, identifying new opportunities appropriate for brand.
- High level of understanding of the competitive landscape. - prepare and present quarterly trend market research, shopping the competition regularly to understand trends and pricing.
- Ensure adherence to product category’s calendar milestones, line development and update status. Drive and optimize weekly operations to calendar deadlines.
- Ensure accurate sample management of product category; tracking of samples; managing to sample accuracy
- Responsible for document creation and maintenance, ad hoc projects as they arise; line lists, adoption, line review, regional sample review and line opening materials
- Experience in managing assistant level direct reports or interns not required but a benefit
Erfahrung, Fähigkeiten & Kenntnisse:
- Bachelor’s Degree preferred
- Strong merchandising or buying experience in Women’s RTW preferred
- Strong analytical and retail math skills.
- Strong communication, interpersonal & teamwork skills.
- Evident leadership and influencing skills.
- Highly organized, detail oriented & accurate.
- Process oriented and shows operational excellence
- Creative problem solver with a solution-driven approach. Innate critical thinker
- Resourceful, efficient, and able to take initiative.
- Ability to manage multiple tasks simultaneously. Ability to operate seamlessly during moments of ambiguity.
- Priority and time management. Ability to juggle multiple seasons and daily priorities
- Computer Skills: Proficiency in MS Office applications, Retail Math, Adobe XD, and systems knowledge (GFE+).