Job Responsibilities:
Range Curation
- “Must-Have” Seasonal Style: Define the “Must-Have” seasonal styles with clear Target Order Volumes and Sales Contribution benchmarks, ensuring these “hero” products drive the majority of the category’s turnover.
- Core Evolution: Use performance data to identify high-contribution styles to be reinvented into “Core Repeat” status for long-term momentum.
Pricing Strategy Framework
- Market-Based Pricing: Establish global pricing hierarchies based on market demand and competitor benchmarking while maintaining strict Target Margin Benchmarks.
Lifecycle Management
- End-to-End Ownership: Direct the full lifespan of every SKU, from initial creative concept and material selection to seasonal markdowns and final exit strategies.
- Global Inventory Re-balancing: Drive Exit Inventory Productivity by orchestrating the global movement of stocks, re-routing slow-moving inventory from underperforming regions to high-demand markets to maximize full-price sell-through globally.
Responsive Supply Chain & Agile Inventory Model
Demand-Led Replenishment: Manage the flow of inventory across the global network based on real-time performance data, ensuring stock fluidity and optimal global stock turn.
Strategic Inventory Buffering (Push): Oversee a high-responsiveness inventory model based on strategic forecasts, ensuring the brand is positioned to bypass traditional production lead times.
Demand-Driven Replenishment (Pull): Architect a robust Pull-based replenishment system where global stock movement is triggered by real-time sales demand, ensuring inventory is only deployed to markets with proven velocity to maximize ROS per SKU.
Requirements:
- Advanced sales data analysis for accurate demand forecasting
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Retail Merchandising or related field
- 8+ years of relevant experience
- Proficient in Office 365 tools, especially excel and Power BI
- Advanced sales data analysis for accurate demand forecasting
- Collaborative cross-functional team experience
- Expertise in assortment planning and market research
- Optimal inventory management to minimize costs
- Strong understanding of relevant KPIs and metrics
- Detail-oriented sales trend analysis approach
- Adaptability to changing market conditions