As Merchandise Manager – Lifestyle, you will spearhead the implementation of our merchandising strategy for your concept across various channels, including online, in-store, and emerging platforms within Region EAS. Leading a dynamic team of merchandising leads, collaborating closely with cross-functional teams such as digital, commercial and visual as well as global counterparts in business units and assortment office, you enhance customer satisfaction, optimize inventory, and achieve substantial revenue growth.
You are customer centric and sales-driven professional with a strong commercial awareness and salesmanship back-bone. Thriving in a fast pace and agile environment, you love working with the product and to set a plan of how to optimize the supply and demand in line with the global assortment and merchandising strategy. You are leader that strives to strengthen team and foster collaboration across channels, roles and functions, empowering strong collaboration and alignment between channels & teams to become more customer focused.
Key responsibilities
- Being a regional expert of your concept, you understand current and future customer demand as well as is the expert on your market, staying up to date with competitive landscape in terms of product, fashion, quality, price and activation.
- You analyze product data and provide key actionable conclusions to the regional organization, as well as visit physical store and digital platforms regularly to identify potential and follow up on commercial strategy implementation.
- Driving your concept, securing and optimizing commercial product offer, you maximalize short and long-term profitable growth for your concept in the region by optimizing global assortment strategy, influence price, quantities, income periods, assortment width and managing regional product lifecycle with the assortment team.
- You optimize net selling by establishing clear commercial priorities per channel, but identifying and acting on the sales opportunities / threats, as well as influencing and executing global product strategy from business units and global merchandising.
- Set stock freshness targets, strategy for commercial impact, size availability and product activation strategy in and post season; reacting with in and post season inventory management and omni key product categories based on in-season performance.
