As Merchandising Lead Retail (Kidswear) - Japan & Korea Market, you will drive execution of the commercial agenda and merchandising strategy together with Merchandise Managers to exceed financial targets. You have a deep interest in the customer and consumer and use customer centric approach in everything you do. You use your retail knowledge and understand synergies between channels, and interest in product, strong analytical ability, and commercial skills, enabling you to constantly improve customer shopping experience in market.
You are customer and sales-driven professional with a strong commercial awareness and salesmanship. You have a strategic mindset with an analytical back-bone. You thrive working in a fast pace, in and agile environment, executing the regional commercial agenda for your markets. You love working with the product and to execute your concept plan in line with the regional directions. You are a strong team-player and foster collaboration across channels, roles and functions and inspires stakeholders to buy in to the product plans to enhance engagement and execution level.
Key responsibilities
- Implement and execute regional merchandising strategy and commercial priorities with close alignment to regional assortment direction.
- Optimize local selling peaks driven by optimizing product exposure strategy to calendar, customer shopping behavior and commercial plan; be responsible for all information including but not limited to kick off, sale packs, BF-information, etc.
- Drive in and post season inventory management by picking full price, discount and sale activities in line with regional merch direction, as well as executing stock management, sale, EOP and commercial reduction.
- Follow up on stock and resolve issues together with inventory optimization team; execute regional strategy for commercial impact on key product categories based on in season performance.
- Know your market retail situation and customer profile, providing commercial team with constant and structured sales follow up for the channel, as well as commercial initiatives in store (visit the site in all touchpoints several times a week) to confirm or adjust actions needed.
