Senior Product Manager, Kids APP

Senior Product Manager, CCS KIDS PM APP

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Bring consumer and industry insights into your concepts
• Execute the category direction and drive implementation
• Work with all creation functions to deliver product concepts and execute strategic plans to win local markets
• Create ranges within the category from both an image and commercial point of view

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage range direction and sharpen the creation direction within kids area to create leading product winning the market
• Propose a clear strategy for the range and execution plan, be considered as a range expert by key relation team and markets
• Show full understanding of the product creation process whilst managing all tasks within the given time frames, with special attention to speed to market
• Work within cross-functional team and with interlinked departments to enable an efficient product creation process with an optimum product outcome
• Strong & actively analyse business, draw conclusions and propose action steps
• Strong knowledge of product information systems and the interlinking functions to maintain and enable smooth product info updating
• Prepare and present ranges and business-related topics - with respective audience in mind - by using relevant structure and content
• Actively provide input for setting the CtC (Concept to Consumer) direction and implement it into relevant ranges in partnership with CtC counterparts
• Work independently on projects and follow up on project development, be proactive, flexible, solution driven to ensure project delivery

Key Relationships:

• Maintain a strong relationship and ensure constant dialogue/feedback with
  • Business unit and across other BU´s
  • Cross-functional team (Design, Operations, Materials, Costing, Planning, Process)
  • Global headquarter and key APAC counterpart (JP/KR/EM)
  • FTW/ ACC team to create concrete head to toe look

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Strong knowledge of kids apparel industry and familiar with local market landscape to ensure right strategic findings to win
• Deep product knowledge of product creation, consumer and retail knowledge in regard to fulfill different needs within GCA market
• Strong communication skills - transport and deliver information clear and effectively
• Cooperate well and effectively to maintain and develop trustful relationships with cross function
• Work independently as well as part of a team
• Plan and prioritize daily working time effectively with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Strong analytical skills, be solution driven and result oriented
• Ability to travel
• Actively interested in lifestyle and/or fashion, passion for sport
• People management experiences would be a plus but not mandatory

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• College degree, preferably in marketing / business / fashion
• Minimum of 7 years Product Marketing experience with APP background in/or Sport/Street/Fashion brands, experienced in large business scale will be preferred
• Preferably with kids-wear background
• Experience in trade, vertical retail business model or sales is helpful
• Fluent in English
• PC skills (MS Office programs, especially PowerPoint and Excel)

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