On - Senior Lead -Merchandising Planning, DMS - Hong Kong

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Leadership Enablement

In short

As Merchandising Planner, you will be responsible for ensuring the right products go to the right channels, tiers, accounts and to the right stores, with the best timing and price. You will build the footwear, apparel & accessories assortments by developing and implementing our global brand strategy & gaining customer insights from working closely with our distributor partners. You will be a leader in forecasting and utilizing new tools for data analysis and turning your findings into short term actions and long-term product strategies.

Your mission

– This role will cover all categories across footwear, apparel and accessories for all genders. This requires a holistic way of building H2T assortments.
– This role will focus on our markets in Southeast Asia including Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Philippines, Taiwan among others. For these markets you will work directly with our distributor partners.
– Assortment planning & forecasting will be required for both our own retail stores managed by distributor partners as well as key account assortment planning.
– You will work closely with our marketing campaign teams to align product launch dates in line with marketing efforts.
– Contribute to the collection pricing architecture and optimize the effect of full price sales through competitor price mapping and price adjustments with our pricing team.
– Provide SEA assortment proposals including Must Buys, Key Assortments, commercial product pushes, considering price points, tiering, channel with a focus on the target consumer and community.
– Know the markets and the consumer targets, fashion and performance competencies and that of our competitors.

Your story

– You have 10 years’ experience with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in a merchandising or merchandise planning role.
– You have a strong track record of business results from your previous roles preferably within Merchandising, Retail, Product Management and Business Analytics.
– You are experienced in developing distribution strategy, whilst keeping consumers, accounts and sales teams front of mind.
– Analytical and data driven mindset with a clear focus on results.
– You are a strong communicator and presenter in front of diverse internal and external audiences.
– You have full business proficiency in English.

Meet the team

You will be part of the APAC Merchandising team, we’re at the heart of the engine. Working directly with experts in fields such as regional sales, marketing, ecom & logistics to create something extraordinary. Our cross functional interaction is driven by a market relevant, consumer-focused mindset touching on all departments inside our organization to set a commercial plan and identify profitable growth and act on sales opportunities/threats together.