Senior Lead - Footwear Merchandiser, APAC

In short

As a Senior Lead Footwear Merchandising, 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 assortments by developing and implementing our global brand strategy & gaining customer insights from working closely with our channel teams.

Your Mission

• This role will cover footwear merchandising strategy across all APAC markets working closely with all channel & commercial teams.
• You will be the APAC liaison with the global footwear merchandising and product teams to ensure APAC needs are being considered in the global assortments.
• Very close collaboration with the local sales teams to work on the right assortments for strategic key accounts and account channels. Regular participation in meetings with accounts is expected for this role.
• 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.
• 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.
• Footwear merchandising background is required for this role.
• You have full business proficiency in English.