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Jr Product Merchandising Manager
VFC
Stabio, , Switzerland
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Jr Product Merchandising Manager The North Face
SUMMARY:
• Support product process for the Lifestyle Category to create best-in-class product and manage the EU product line through its full life cycle
• Run integrated, profitable consumer right apparel assortments into the market place.
PRIMARY ACCOUNTABILITIES:
• Work in close collaboration with Senior PM on Product performance including sales and margin targets, product execution, and evaluation and implementation of new opportunities
• Assortments that deliver category plans KPI’s
• Logical line plans and visual line plans. (Product, price, color)
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
• Product Management
• Brief design, fabric and development on direction, line plan, product features and price positioning and ensure the timely execution of inline products.
• Partner with product development and design during fit and costing reviews to ensure the product achieves margin goals and remains commercially relevant
• Develop ownership for assigned category product line throughout the full product life cycle, including stages of pre-planning, business briefing, confirmation, presentation, pricing and profitability; final execution
• Manage SKU count and margins to agreed targets.
• Merchandising led approach
• Create merchandising stories around color and materials to ensure commercial product flow
• Deliver channel segmentation and tiering
• Deliver product with logical architecture. Product, price & color. Create separation without duplication.
• Deliver product based on lifecycle goals. Appropriate innovation & newness by season.
• Deliver product to meet volume driver goals. Franchise key items. Classification attacks.
• Marketplace
• Be the expert for own area of business
• Identify opportunities based on the customer needs and consumer profiles
• Know the competition (innovations, materials, features / benefits, pricing architecture, best sellers)
• Trends. Know where the market is heading next (reference brands, products, materials, features / benefits, price)
• Gather and filter seasonal market feedback and input to for the current or future seasons.
• Communication
• Drive cross-functional partnerships with forecasting, sales, retail and marketing during the Go-to-Market process
• Present at IDR, sales, account and trade meetings.
• Partner across functions to create a strong ‘1 Team’ culture of support, visibility and sharing.
SKILLS AND QUALIFICATIONS:
• University degree or equivalent
• At least 3 years’ experience in a lifestyle environment
• Product development experience would be a plus
• Relevant system skills
• Passion
• ‘Can do’ attitude
• English speaker
• Detail oriented
• Good communicator
• Team oriented