Become an active team player for the Sport textile team

In your role you will assist the Senior merchandiser & the Collection Director in the merchandising initiatives, and support market/region growth thanks to performance analysis and global strategy implementation (product & image).

Reporting to the Senior merchandiser (Sport), your role will be to develop your category through strategical GTM tools & initiatives.

1) Performance analysis & financial framing of the global offer :

For your category, you'll have a crucial position in the definition of the collection framing, performance/data consolidation & reporting

• Participate in performance analysis of the collection (sell-in, sell-out, colors, prices, tiering, etc.)
• Define, animate & follow performance KPIs vs. Growth targets
• Define SKUs plan & support the definition of the collections in collaboration with the product managers
• Consolidate & update forecast & RID in collaboration with supply & finance

2) Be the ambassador of the global product strategy towards markets and the voice of the markets towards global :

You are the gate keeper of the strategy communication & implementation within markets and help define local product assortment.

Merchandising strategy & guidelines :

• Consolidate markets feedbacks & needs based on hindsights data
• Ensure the communication of markets needs & priorities towards the Xfunctional team
• Define assortment guidelines (size, category…) for each region following consumer specificities & budget constraints
• Supervise & collaborate with the sales team to tackle specific channel needs / collection tiering

3) Go to market:

• Ensure the understanding of the global product strategy and support its implementation through efficient sell in tools
• Plan, animate & ensure regions overlap from a products POV & from a GTM tools POV
• Consolidate markets feedback to influence future collection
• Build, in collaboration with product managers, all the collection presentation tools (collection boards, PPT for key milestones):

Profile :

• In Alternation, MBA / BBA (fashion school, business school, engineering school, University…)
• You are reliable, curious, organized, and a true team player, demonstrating strong adaptability.
• You adapt easily to new environments & embrace change
• Apparel / product sensitivity & sports in general
• You speak english & a little bit (or a lot) of french (any other language is a plus)
• Advanced Office Suite