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Manager Regional Merchandizer
The Team
Within the Full Price Buying & Merchandizing team, our mission is to ensure the Global Full Price product strategy is adapted to meet the specific needs of the region to maximize DTC performance & wholesale growth, and to ensure operational readiness across the Full Price buying teams. This position serves as the backbone of the Full Price team, collaborating closely with Hubs and wider CK teams to drive overall commercial performance. With an integral position in the team, the role contributes significantly to the department’s operational efficiency, strategic growth and overall success.
The Position
As Manager Regional Merchandizer, you will be crucial to the Full Price Buying & Merchandizing team. You will execute the EMEA assortment architecture and strategy across the product category, working with Hub counterparts to deliver a consumer-relevant and channel-optimized product mix. This role is vital for achieving the Full Price Buying & Merchandizing objectives and your work will be key to the commercial success of the CK brand.
Key Responsibilities:
- Regional assortment architecture: Input into the development of the EMEA assortment architecture, ensuring the right assortment for the product category in the region. This includes managing product selection and segmentation for optimal growth and profitability.
- Category strategy: Own and execute the EMEA category strategy, providing range and product feedback to input into regional and global forecasting. Regularly analyze and report market trends, consumer insights, and competitor activity to inform the global product assortment.
- Cross-functional collaboration: Support Hub Merchandizing teams in customizing assortments, ensuring global intent aligns with local opportunities. Work closely with Hub counterparts and Visual Merchandizing to ensure alignment and cohesive execution of the category strategy and product assortment rollout.
- Regional buying & assortment strategies: Execute regional buying and assortment strategies, including forecasting product volumes, managing commitments on a style level, and ensuring that products are available for both short-term and long-term market needs, optimizing inventory and sales.
- Roll out of product assortment: Execute the regional rollout of product assortments, including ensuring that products are downloaded to sales teams and customers effectively. Manage the logistics of showroom setups, launch strategies, and in-market execution to maximize sales performance and brand presence across the EMEA region, ensuring product launches are on time and aligned with regional priorities.
- Continuous improvement: Implement and exploit new systems and processes to continually increase merchandizing team efficiency.
Measures of Success
- Product selection and trend responsiveness: high levels of assortment success including sell out performance of new collections, speed to market for new trends, exclusive product performance
- Customer and market insight: accurate market insight including customer demand forecasting, customer ratings and reviews
- Range & option count, sell through rate, net sales and inventory levels
Requirements
- 7-10 years’ experience in Merchandizing for a fashion retailer
- Proven track record in regional assortment planning and execution, ideally within Full Price environments.
- Strong understanding of regional market trends and consumer behavior.
- Able to work in a fast paced, matrix based, challenging environment.
- Strong analytical, planning and organization skills with the ability to generate meaningful data insights to take commercial decisions.
- Communication skills: advanced ability to clearly convey information both written and orally to executive internal stakeholders
- Strong business and commercial acumen
- Proven ability to work well with others as part of a high-performing team, supporting and inspiring team members.
- Fluent English both written and verbal
- Ability to travel abroad
- Education: a Bachelor's degree in Business, Fashion Merchandising, or a related field is preferred, or equivalent professional experience
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ENTERPRISE FIRST – we act in the best interests of PVH and its consumers beyond our own team, brand, region or market.
DRIVE CHANGE – we lead by example and are optimistic about change. We challenge the status quo but fully commit once a decision is made.
CREATE CLARITY – we are diligent in providing context and setting our priorities so we can be productive quickly.
INSPIRE TRUST – we create safe spaces for debate and deliver on what we promise so people can learn to depend on us.
TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY – we focus on work with the biggest business impact and give candid feedback to each other.
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About PVH:
We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.
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