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Category Manager
Fanatics
Tampa, FL, United States
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Position Summary: Category Manager of Jerseys
Manage the business, financial, licensing approvals, and line plans for select jersey categories. Main contact and partner to our internal Jersey Buying and Planning teams on inventory, market trends and business opportunities. Business lead for our cross matrix teams in Planning, Design, Development, and Sourcing. Main product contact for our designated League Partners. Responsible for managing all aspects of our growth and profitability as it relates to our rights for Brand (Nike, adidas), Custom, Fashion, and Fanatics House Brand jerseys.
Responsibilities
External
• Knowledgeable on our League specific product creation and customization rights and potential
• Knowledgeable on trends, consumer insights, retail, new opportunities, and competition
• Responsible for any channel segmentation both internally and externally
• Effective communicator and presenter to Management, Leagues, Teams, Retailers
• Relevant Trade Show management and presentations
Internal
• Business Unit Manager, participate and drive business plans, financial planning and analysis, optimizing the merchant planning team to track and define key business opportunities
• Line/range planning, with an understanding of a finished and blank inventory, for chase, custom, and seasonal fashion
• Analyze and manage style/sku productivity (gender, style, size, color, units, lifespan, AUR, category margins, retail & wholesale MSRP’s)
• Partner on a purchasing and inventory plan with Planning and Buying. Member of management team for blank stock, domestic finishing, component needs, inventory levels to guarantee success
• Partner and virtual leader to Merchandise Planning, Design, Development, Production Planning, Ops, and Sourcing
• Partner and virtual leader on the product commercialization process, timelines, specific and weighted margins, profitability, final range adoption process
• Co-ownership with marketing and business management the digital marketing platform, including sort, social and SEO and make sure these strategies execute seasonally
Education/Experience:
• Proven manager of people, timelines, and process with ability to identify, acquire, and grow talent as well as motivate, mentor, and develop high performing teams
• Drive for great product and able to communicate vision and bring to reality
• Knowledge and/or passion for U.S. sports
• Exceptional Interpersonal Skills/Strong Communicator – strong visual, written, and verbal skills
• Ability to network, gain trust with co-workers, open to new ideas, work with multiple personalities and competing agendas, and can deliver a decision in a professional manner
• Project Management/Problem Solving - identify and resolve problems in a creative, collaborative, and timely manner with a view of the big picture and making difficult decisions
• Maintain a professional and positive attitude towards the team, vendors, and clients
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Apparel, Merchandising, or comparable graduation from a textile school or equivalent work experience with a strong understanding of the product creation process
• 5-10 plus years of progressive experience with appropriate management experience specializing in jerseys or apparel or related experience in retail buying, managing, or sales
• Experience with Microsoft Applications such as Word, PowerPoint, Excel and have the ability to learn and maneuver in Product/Project Management software and/or processes
• Knowledge and understanding of U.S. retail and Consumer trends
• Ability to travel up to 35%
About Fanatics
As the global leader in licensed sports merchandise, Fanatics is changing the way fans purchase their favorite team apparel and jerseys across retail channels through an innovative, tech-infused approach to making and selling fan gear in today’s on-demand culture. Powering multi-channel commerce for the world’s biggest sports brands, Fanatics offers the largest collection of timeless and timely merchandise whether shopping online, on your phone, in stores, in stadiums or on-site at the world’s biggest sporting events.
Fanatics is a technology-driven, consumer company that powers the Fanatics, FansEdge, Kitbag and Majestic brands, as well as the largest selection of sports collectibles and memorabilia through Fanatics Authentic. Fanatics also operates more than 300 online and offline partner stores, including the e-commerce business for all major professional sports leagues (NFL, MLB, NBA, NHL, NASCAR, MLS, PGA), major media brands (NBC Sports, CBS Sports, FOX Sports) and more than 200 collegiate and professional team properties, which include several of the biggest global soccer clubs (Manchester United, Real Madrid, Manchester City).
In addition to e-commerce, the company’s capabilities include multichannel-integrated event and team retail across all leagues and major events such as the Kentucky Derby, Ryder Cup and NHL’s Winter Classic; an industry-leading tech, data and mobile platform; international capabilities that provide a global sports retail platform that is growing the licensed sports merchandise business both in soccer and across all sports worldwide; and an in-house merchandise division, Fanatics Branded, that is a licensed partner of all the major sports leagues and helps fans express passion through a broad range of styles, designs and jerseys created under both the Fanatics and Majestic brands.
Fanatics’ vertical manufacturing engine is built for today’s on-demand economy and brings much-needed agility to the industry, better servicing today’s passionate sports fans and their growing real-time expectations with more unique and innovative products readily available across retail channels.
Sports is a fast-paced, ever-changing landscape and Fanatics, the on-demand and mobile leader in team merchandise, is uniquely positioned to serve the insatiable real-time appetite of fans worldwide, fueled by explosive growth in technology and social media.