Senior Manager, Category Merchandising, Graphics
adidas
full-time
Posted on:
Location Type: Hybrid
Location: Portland • Oregon • 🇺🇸 United States
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Senior
About the role
- Manage the planning, curating, landing, and measuring consumer right assortments for NAM
- Ensure we are driving the right product, at the right time, to the right segmentation, in the right volume and at the right price
- Provide and communicate consumer, industry, and market insights to Global via the GTM commercial input process to ensure a relevant product range is created to meet NAM market needs
- Manage our key item and franchise models across lifecycles to ensure brand health and growth
- Own the creation of strategic curated assortment plans for relevant strategic channel/account including DTC
- Manage the execution of NAM Local Creation to drive market relevant SMU's
- Inspire and excite through the presentation of the GTM category, range plans and consumer insights to internal teams and key strategic retailers
- Utilize and action the analysis of the product range and sales results to maximize profitability, productivity, and growth of future assortments
- Lead and motivate direct reports ensuring best in class mentorship, training and development for category and career growth
Requirements
- Four-year college or university degree, preferably in Business/Merchandising or related field preferred
- Minimum five (5) years related industry experience
- Previous merchandising experience in the sporting goods industry preferred
- US marketplace experience preferred
- Skill in MS Office applications (Outlook, Excel, PowerPoint, Word)
- Strong presentation and planning skills
- Strong process and project management skills
- Ability to provide category management leadership, including ability to manage/mentor more junior resources
- Excellent business acumen in channel distribution, net sales, margin, profit and inventory
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work with and influence across the organization
- A thorough understanding of customer markets and trends
- Category specific understanding preferred
- Strong analytical and planning skills
- Ability to travel domestic and international up to 15% of time
Benefits
- robust and progressive medical, including HSA (Health Savings Account) with employer funding or FSA (Flexible Spending Account) options
- dental
- vision
- prescription drug coverage
- adoption, with surrogate and fertility support
- short and long-term disability
- basic life and AD&D insurance, which can be supplemented with employee-paid coverage
- education assistance
- generous Leave policies including 12 weeks of paid parental leave
- annual bonus based on both company and personal performance
- prorated flexible time off in the amount .4388 hours per day that increases with years of service
- twelve paid holidays throughout the calendar year
- Service Time Off during milestone years
- Hybrid work policy with flexibility to work remotely on Friday
Applicant Tracking System Keywords
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Hard skills
merchandisingcategory managementproduct range analysissales results analysisstrategic planningproject managementbusiness acumendata analysisconsumer insightsassortment planning
Soft skills
presentation skillsplanning skillsleadershipmentorshipcommunication skillsinfluencing skillsanalytical skillsorganizational skillsteam motivationtraining and development