Assistant Product Manager Apparel, ORI/BB

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Bring consumer and sport/street insights into your concepts
• Execute the category direction and drive implementation
• Work with all creation functions to deliver product concepts and execute strategic plans to win local markets.
• Create ranges within the category from both an image and commercial point of view

Key Responsibilities:

• Proactively manage range direction and sharpen the creation direction within the sport/street area to create leading products winning the market.
• Propose a clear strategy for the range and execution plan, be considered as a range expert by key relation team and markets.
• Good understanding of the product creation process whilst managing all tasks within the given time frames, with special attention to speed to market
• Work within cross-functional teams and with interlinked departments to enable an efficient product creation process with an optimum product outcome
• Actively analyze business, draw conclusions and propose action steps
• Good knowledge of product information systems and the interlinking functions to maintain and enable smooth product info updating.
• Prepare and present ranges and business-related topics - with respective audience in mind - by using relevant structure and content
• Actively provide input for setting the CtC (Concept to Consumer) direction and implement it into relevant ranges in partnership with CtC counterparts
• Aim to work independently on projects and follow up on project development, be proactive, flexible, solution driven to ensure project delivery.

Key Relationships:

• Maintain a strong relationship and ensure constant dialogue/feedback with
  • Business unit and across other BU´s
  • Cross-functional team (Design, Operations, Materials, Costing, Planning, Process)
  • FTW team to create concrete head to toe look

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good knowledge of sport/street industry and familiar with local market landscape to ensure right strategic findings to win
• Good product knowledge of product creation, consumer and retail knowledge regarding fulfill different needs within GCA market.
• Strong communication skills - transport and delivering information clearly and effectively
• Cooperate well and effectively to maintain and develop trustful relationships with cross function
• Plan and prioritize daily working time effectively with the ability to work in a fast-paced environment
• Good analytical skills, being solution driven and result oriented
• Ability to travel, quick learner
• Passion for product creation, love fashion & sport

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• College degree, preferably in marketing / business / fashion
• Minimum of 2-4 years Product Marketing experience with APP background in/or Sport/Street/Fashion brands, experience in large business scale will be preferred
• Fluent in English
• PC skills (MS Office programs, especially PowerPoint and Excel)