Ralph Lauren

Position Summary:

The Digital Commerce Trading & Operations Manager will manage Ralph Lauren’s e-commerce site in Southeast Asia (SEA) from build phase in the beginning and site operation after launch. To maintain the site that is representing Ralph Lauren brand in a premium way and to manage the brand campaign to align with seasonal launch and product lifecycle. With site ownership to operate the site e-merchandising, including all products live and product mix planning to achieve site objectives and sales target. Partnering with key stakeholders to ensure we continue to evolve the business and process.

Responsibilities Include:

• Develop immersive and friction-less customer journeys through product-driven brand story telling opportunities on ecom destination(s). Partner with Content and Digital Operations teams to continue improving customer experience on Home Page, various landing pages, as well as product details pages. Monitor product pages in assigned categories to ensure content is accurate, current, and presented in to encourage purchases.
• Own the end to end processes related to online product strategy execution. Manage data flow related to item master, digital assets, and inventory against the planned assortment.  
• Coordinate with operation teams on new product launches. Ensures the existing product catalogue is up to date with the latest released products, best-selling models, seasonal rotation and the marketing calendar.
• Establish site merchandising best practices and share with internal stakeholders
• Co-own with cross-functional teams on creating a best-in-class shopping experience on RL.sea digital flagship site
• Analyze and present competitive intelligence to marketing, merchandising and operation team, recommend ideas to merchandising teams based on data and competitive research.
• Advocate for the needs of our customers and serve as the go-to person for insight on site traffic and merchandising performance; will combine an understanding of what drives e-commerce sales, and a passion for user experience to improve the onsite merchandising strategy
• Analyze site metrics and related data to identify opportunities to improve merchandising and the customer experience across the site and various product categories
• Partner with marketing and operation team to establish sales plans and forecasts using market, consumer, and competitive insights and internal analysis
• Partner with the marketing team to draft creative briefs and create projects to maximize online merchandise presentation, developing category, theme or product-based landing pages
• Evaluate eCommerce category and key item performance and identify customer behavior and sales levels
• Reviews website visitor feedback, and digital analytics to evaluate and optimize product details such as attributes, imagery, and videos to optimize sales online and traffic into stores
• Engages with team daily to evaluate top/bottom selling styles and refine go-forward plan for site and marketing content.
• Finds and contributes to fixing possible bugs appearing on the existing product catalogue.
• Perform QA/maintenance of our site to ensure all offers, landing pages, product tiles and copy are accurate.

Project Manager Support for Digital Flagship Build for SEA

•      Local-market project manager and central point-of-contact for all areas of the project.

•      Coordinate with Global, APAC, Local cross-functional teams, external service enabler, etc. to gather/confirm requirements per project milestone/deadlines to develop the site and launch

•       Plan market related content, campaigns, and promotions ahead of launch

•       Weekly report status/progress of site; identify and call-out/hedge against any risks

•       Work with local and APAC teams to develop RL.com launch commercial plans

Post-Launch Key Responsibilities: Manage Site Operations, e-Merchandising, Content, Drive Sales Growth in SEA

•       Oversee all RL.com website operation

•       Continually identify features needs, plan for future development

•       Analyze, understand, and feedback learnings on user behavior, customer segment opportunities

•       Keep up to date with market changes, consumer insights, platform developments, competitor sites, new and beneficial ecommerce technology

•       Drive omnichannel planning and coordination with retail offline team

•    Conduct regular online product analysis to provide insight to country and corporate merchandising team to make sure the results are reflected in planning, buy and allocations

•      Oversee eCommerce assortments and establish optimal product mix based on category goals, performance, and designated category roles