Senior Category Merchandising Manager, APAC(Lifestyle Footwear)

Our client is a global lifestyle designer footwear company, and they are seeking a high caliber Regional Senor Merchandising Manager to join their regional team in Hong Kong.

Reporting into the Regional Head of Merchandising, the incumbent will be responsible for,

• Integrating consumer research and insights into merchandising and product category plan for the Asia Pacific region
• Creating compelling targeted consumer-centric briefs and product ranges, with a sound and strategic regional minded merchandising architecture for the Asia Pacific region
• Creating best-in-class product assortment and effectively managing the product lifecycle management and product roadmap
• Monitoring in-season global performance, new product introductions and carryover lines to articulate actionable strategies
• Building product range plans and delivering products that drives better efficiency, margin and sustainable EBITDA growth
• Conducting extensive market and competitive research on retail landscape and interpreting market trends and competitive insights at the Regional and Country levels
• Building detailed product presentations and briefs to be presented to respective Global and Regional teams
• Tracking and maintaining data and conducting accurate and concurrent category and conduct analysis
• Be the key contact point for the selected category with internal and external stakeholders
• Managing product offering and assortment strategy and supporting country merchandising teams with product specifications

Successful candidates should possess:

• Bachelor degree holder
• 8-12 years' experience in lifestyle or sports retail category management and merchandising, of which at least 4 years footwear merchandising focus
• Passionate in Footwear merchandising, category management and/or product development
• Strategic yet very hands-on, and able to work with limited time and resources
• Knowledge of the product critical path from concept, design, and development to the GTM process
• Strong stakeholder management skills and ability to influence without direct authority
• Proven ability to conducting quantitative and qualitative researches and analysis related to product, classifications, market/competitors, consumers, and channels of distribution
• Excellent presentation presenting skills and comfortable in public speaking
• Strong leadership, interpersonal, analytical and strategic problem solving skills

• Advance business level in Excel and data analytics
• Natively fluent in English, Chinese is a plus

Interested individuals can click apply now and send updated resume (in WORD format) to Kimmie Chan for further information.

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