YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: Including but not limited to:
- Manage a simplified, empowered offense grounded in key ways of working: multi-season approach to product mix; franchise and classification excellence; and managing for product essentials, newness, innovation & exploration.
- Distill and drive consumer/market insights and strategic concepts into a rolling, multi-season product line architecture that considers the full consumer journey.
- Drives the APAC apparel product creation strategy while commercial opportunities, including speed creation, celebrating local relevant moments and hyperlocal capsules.
- Proactively lead product lifecycle management to effectively serve our consumers.
- Partner with finance and planning to set target financial goals (revenue, units, and margin) and number of consumer choices against attributes (e.g. franchise, consumer dimension).
- Create regional architecture framework and translate global direction into initial line plan to identify what product we will bring to the consumer, bringing clarity to investment and divestment strategy.
- Determine and tag product fields for strategic intent (e.g. how a product serves a given consumer), product lifecycle, and pricing architecture.
- Lead strong partnership with Marketing and Demand Planning to deliver against the Line Plan, ensuring plan meets consumer needs and financial targets.
- Sets guidelines, targets, and follows through on APAC Adoption inclusive of harmonization targets, while maintaining ongoing Global connectivity with clearly defined checkpoints and feedback loops.
- Foster strong, integrated partnership with Product peer & team, soliciting input & expertise for agreed-upon Line Architecture.
- Lead the apparel product and merchandising team
WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:
- Strong communication and collaboration skills
- Strong logic and reasoning skills including Retail and Financial acumen
- Analytical mindset with strong knowledge or retail and apparel industry
- Merchandising principles, assortment planning including retail math
- Bias for action / self-directed / problem solver
- Insights or familiarity with Streetwear consumer and market trends (Vans consumer is a plus)
- Language: Fluent in English; proficiency in Mandarin a plus
- Project management skills
Competency Requirements :
Behavioral Competencies –
- Resilience
- Building trust
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- Cultural Fit
- People Leader and Team Player
- Building Partnerships
- Planning & Organizing & Tracking information
- Customer and Consumer Focus
- Result oriented
- Curiosity
Desirable –
- Adaptability
- Innovation
- Continuous Improvement
- Story telling
- Empowerment
Functional Competencies –
- Microsoft- especially in Excel and Powerpoint
- FlexPLM experience is a plus
- Merchandising Logic and assortment building
- Apparel creation process
Experience
Minimum Relevant Experience: +10 years’ experience in merchandising, preferably in the fashion industry (Apparel is a plus)
Minimum Supervisory Experience: +5 years
Language Proficiency:
- Fluent in : English
- Mandarin is a plus
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