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Director Merchandising
Adidas Group
Portland, OR, United States
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Director Merchandising, Women's - Core FW
Purpose
Drive and provide consumer insights into the global commercial input process to ensure a relevant product range is created to meet local market needs. Take insights and execute a strategic assortment plan against the category vision and KPIs. Collaborate with CTC, and relevant cross functional teams to execute plan.. Deliver the GTM strategy for the US market and lead/manage the merch team to execute against the strategy..
Key Accountabilities
• Obtain and deliver consumer insights into the global process to deliver local relevant product
• Own and deliver the NAM GTM strategy against global priorities and lead merchandising team to bring strategy to life.
• Collaborate and align with Global on product range build, assortment strategy to create accountability.
• Prepare the line for go to market excellence, including system, catalogue, and web text maintenance.
• Ensure category and account objectives are met.
• Develop ongoing marketing/product strategies.
• Build assortment plans for the global region that provide clear product direction and information to the global product team and supporting departments
• Develop category initiatives in order to meet key commercial goals.
• Collaborate in preparing communication concepts for the category
• Build market/retailer network to maintain trend and product awareness
• Present ranges internally and externally (to key retailers)
• Continually monitor and analyze product range and sales results to determine products that maximize profitability/productivity
• Manage the process with effective communication and action steps in order to achieve margin, profitability, and acceptable inventory levels
• Manages merchandising resources, ensuring organizational efficiency through appropriate motivation, training and development of direct report(s).
• Work with field marketing teams, as needed.
• Track multiple projects from brief to retail purchase
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities
• Strong consumer understanding and ability to interpret insights against strategy
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Strong presentation and interpersonal skills.
• Ability to provide merchandising leadership, including ability to manage/mentor team
• A thorough understanding of customer markets and trends.
• Strong analytical and planning skills.
• Skill in MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
• Ability to travel both domestically and internationally as needed.
Qualifications
1. Four year college or university degree, preferably in Marketing/Business.
2. Seven (7) years sports or other product marketing or related experience.
3. Equivalent combination of education and/or experience may be substituted for degree.
4. International experience preferred.