Retail Merchandise Planning Lead, EMEA

In short

This is a strong opportunity to contribute to the growth of a fast-scaling brand by supporting the development of retail merchandising across EMEA.

As a Lead Retail Merchant for footwear, you will focus on executing and optimizing assortments at the store level, ensuring global strategies translate effectively into local performance. You will balance product understanding with commercial analysis to drive sell-through, support premium positioning, and respond to regional market needs. Your role is to ensure that the right product is in the right place, at the right time, and that stores are set up to perform at optimum commercial levels while reflecting the brand’s positioning.

Your Mission

• Execute seasonal footwear assortments across the EMEA store network, adapting global assortments to local market needs (store tiers, climate, customer demand, etc) ensuring consistency with our premium brand positioning while driving sell-through
• Monitor weekly performance and identify risks and opportunities, taking action through replenishment, stock movements, and markdowns to support strong sell-through and inventory efficiency
• Provide structured feedback to Global teams on product performance, highlighting regional needs (fit, style, timing) to inform future collections and acting as a link between market reality and product strategy
• Partner with Marketing and Visual Merchandising to support new collection launches and ensuring product stories are clearly and consistently executed in stores
• Lead and drive assortment planning and execution for new stores while ensuring a balanced and relevant product offer at launch
• Use and support the adoption of merchandising and allocation tools to contribute to improving ways of working and data-driven decision making
• Track key KPIs (sell-through, ROS, stock levels, turn, etc) using data to support decisions and improve performance

Your story

• 5+ years in Retail Buying, Merchandising or merchandise planning
• Experience in apparel, footwear, or lifestyle brands in the premium space
• Comfortable working in fast-paced, evolving environments
• Strong analytical mindset with good Excel/data skills with a solid understanding of retail KPIs and trading levers
• Good product sensibility and attention to detail
• Team player, structured, and solution-oriented
• Able to work cross-functionally and influence stakeholders
• Clear and positive communicator, able to simplify complex topics
• Open to change, with a continuous improvement mindset

What to expect

We want to set everyone up for success, so here’s the lowdown on how we hire. Our process is a two-way street – bringing you into our culture, while helping us learn how you think.

Our full process can last about eight weeks from application to offer, because we care about getting it right. These steps explain how we usually do things.

Before you get started, feel free to consider if you want to work with us. Strange question? Well, we give people a lot of space to navigate their day-to-day and that style isn't for everyone. We want you to be passionate about what you do and be sure this is the right fit. Because when skills and passion combine – it creates that 'Wow' moment.

• Step One

  It starts with you...

  You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role. We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.

• Step Two

  Interview with a recruiter

  What ignites your spirit? This is where we’ll start getting to know all about you and what makes you tick – and it’s your first chance to get a feel for our culture. Chatting with a member of our talent team, you’ll learn more about On and how we work. We’ll learn about what motivates you and what you could bring to the team.

• Step Three

  Interview with a hiring manager

  Ready to dig into the details? This second interview will be held with your future manager and will focus on the specifics of the job. Together you’ll delve into your unique skills and experiences and how they could be relevant at On. It's also a time to assess how you might feel working side-by-side. Bring any questions you have about the job, the team or anything else you might like to know – this is an open forum.

• Step Four

  The Case Study

  What's your style? This task will help us understand how you think, face a challenge and give insight into your novel ideas. Designed to give everyone their best shot, your case study is based on something you might typically experience on the job. This is your chance to show us what you’ve got. So express yourself. Be you.

• Step Five

  The Experience Day

  Your first taste of the Oniverse. This is a time to meet some of the people you'll be working closest with. In person or virtually, you'll get a feel for the day-to-day at On and the people who make it happen. You'll chat with a few potential teammates - the conversations will be as equally driven by the role and your experience as by our values. We believe how you do things is just as important as what you do.

• Step Six

  The Result

  Are we a good fit? We’ll get together internally to share our feedback and decide if we’re a match. We know that job searching is a big time investment, so it’s not a decision we take lightly. It’s also time for you to reflect on the experience – are we the right place for you? No matter the outcome, we’ll give you meaningful feedback.

Step One:

It starts with you...

You'll start by submitting your application to a specific role.

We try to keep this step as simple as possible. We do get a lot of applications, but we review them all. If you're a good fit to the role, a recruiter will follow up with you directly. If you didn't receive a reply, or were unsuccessful this time around, we encourage you to look for other possible matches at On.