Description:
We are accelerating global growth with our athleisure product, making comfort COOL across all our footwear categories. It’s down to our Global Product Merchandising team to focus on making sure we get the right products with the right price architecture and seasonality for our customers! We’re looking for someone smart, ambitious and above all curious to learn and build a career in product merchandising. So, if this sounds like a challenge that’s for you? Get in touch and wow us with your story.
The Responsibilities:
- Work cross-functionally with design and development to support in brief and review of the range across seasonal milestones.
- Managing seasonal market research, competitors and pricing analysis by market, highlighting key opportunities of growth and shifts in the marketplace to support range planning.
- Support the Product Merchandising Manager to create and maintain all selling tools and information for Wholesale and digital partners during collection Key meetings, and to Design and Product Development during proto & product reviews.
- Collaborating closely with Product Development, tracking buy ready and any potential risk to the collection.
- Support Product Merchandiser to consolidate seasonal lessons learnt by market.
- Managing and driving the admin and range maintenance for the for athleisure product category, working closely with the rest of the Product Merchandising team.
- Manage sample process for Product Merchandising department.
The Person:
- Knowledge of the competitive landscape with footwear and sneakers.
- Numerical minded.
- Good eye for product demonstrating excellent commercial awareness within Footwear market.
- Advanced skills in MS Excel & proficiency in spreadsheet analyses (reporting and handling big data amount, executing pivots and other analysis) as well as Word and Power Point.
- Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to present key findings to the wider team.
- Ability to work as part of a team as well as being a self-motivated individual.
- Ability to handle pressure whilst working on multiple tasks and providing high quality work results.
- Quick to learn new systems and tools, someone who embraces a hands-on, dynamic and fast paced work environment.
- Positive mindset, entrepreneurial thinker, embracing change and taking new ways to reach targets.
- Proficiency in written and spoken English.