Merchandising Manager
Adecco
- Hilversum, Noord-Holland
- Vast
- Voltijds
- Strategic Vision - Develop and execute a product strategy for our Digital Direct business across footwear, apparel and accessories in order to deliver digital customer-right online product assortments. Drive this strategy in the key gates and deliverables in our seasonal gameplan.
- Serve Demand - Partner with the Digital Planning team and collaborate with key stakeholders to ensure that Converse.com has the right product, with the right volumes, at the right time to meet current consumer demand as well as connecting new audiences to the brand. Use past-season hindsighting, trend analysis and brand product strategy to inform the seasonal assortment plan.
- Insights led approach -Leverage customer data and trend insights to develop product roadmaps and key category plans that meet Digital Direct growth objectives. Influence product creation through global and local product engines with a customer insights driven approach.
- Drive for results - Ensure product revenue is maximized to serve customer demand at the best possible margin. Create various analyses throughout the season to review sales results, pricing architecture and product assortment performance. Orchestrate in-season trading, assuring timely sales forecast by product, stock intakes and markdowns.
- Obsess Storytelling - drive customer journeys from concept to in-season trade via the go-to-market process. Ensure that Digital Direct is the best expression of the brand in the geography. Partner with Digital Experience and Digital Marketing teams to craft the customer journey roadmap for each season. Lead communication of category buying strategies and initiatives to business partners in the digital team, the geography and global counterparts
- Leadership - Inspire, motivate and develop a diverse and inclusive team to deliver a best in class product experience for our customer, driving profitable and productive growth for the W.E digital business.
- 25 vacation days if you work 40 hours per week a full year
- Commuting allowance of €0.23 cent per km/max of €23 net per office day
- Work from home allowance of €5 per day on days you are working from home
- 8.33% holiday allowance
- After 8 work weeks participation in pension plan
- 25% discount in the employee store
- Free access to the online learning platform Adecco Academy
- Access to the gym facilities on campus
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Merchandising or related field required.
- 10+ years relevant work experience in merchandising, digital retail and/or GMM functional role.
- Minimum 4 years experience of leading diverse teams of 4 people or more
- Leadership behavious required: managing ambiguity, strategic vision and effective teamwork.
- Fully proficient in assortment planning, retail acumen, marketplace knowledge, consumer insights and line planning.
- Proven ability to ideate and apply creative thinking, including digital execution concepts in partnership with Site Experience and Marketing.
- Fluent in English with excellent verbal and written communication skills.
- Strong multi-tasking, organizational and problem solving skills.
- Ambitious, autonomous and information seeking attitude.