Manager, Category Merchandising
VF Corporation
- Henderson, NV Shanghai
- Permanent
- Full-time
- To digest the brand innovation and technology. Be the expertise in the regional team.
- To plan the range of summit series to regain outdoor credibility for the brand.
- To bring responsibly local consumer and customer insight to the brand.
- To analyze and evaluate opportunities by product class with local team and customers to identify areas of growth, research needs and margin enhancement.
- To develop and deploy market right merchandising plan for the region, respecting the regional and global product direction by Globalization project in mind.
- To represent Asia region during Proto session for the final product factures could matching back to story benefits and win in the market.
- To participate actively into the overall GTM transformation process internally and externally from kick off meeting to sales meeting.
- To set up pricing in Local currency following market situation and margin expectation under VF forecast and planning calendar.
- To work closely with the Retail buying team in building the right assortment for retail started from planning to sell thru and inventory management.
- To support SMPM by overseeing the maintenance of seasonal product lines as well as providing analytical reporting on product performance in the region, working with product operation team
- To ensure a strong collaboration and communication with HK& TW merchandising manager and distributers to hit their market needs.
- To support the SMPM to gather and research market information via comparative shopping, trade fairs, etc. including research in competitive information.
- To maintain and improve general market awareness, trends by product management.
- To participate together with the RBE team actively in the monthly merchandising store execution, to make sure the story telling and the focus is correctly executed.
- To participate in training store staff on product features and benefits as well as USP.
- Enthusiast on the outdoor activity
- Expertise of outdoor gears
- Have an inquiring mind
- Strong Team Player
- Agility to Manage Change
- Good Communication Skills (Mandarin & English)
- Driving Execution
- Desirable
- Adaptability
- Creative
- Committed
- Trustful
- Process Management & Results Driven
- Creative Problem Solving
- High Attention on details
- Good Presentation Skill
- Analytical skill
- Fluent in English & Chinese