Amer Sports

Merchandise Manager – Sportstyle

Amer Sports

full-time

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Location Type: Hybrid

Location: Moorabbin Airport • Australia

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About the role

  • Define and implement the long term category strategy by sub-sport and channel, ensuring alignment with global brand direction and local market needs
  • Own the end-to-end category strategy development for all Key Accounts and D2C channels, including full responsibility for assortment planning
  • Establish clear range architecture that balances innovation, consumer demand, and commercial viability
  • Lead the full seasonal planning process, including financial planning, range selection, pricing, volume forecasting, and lifecycle management
  • Ensure assortments are optimized for profitability, consumer relevance, and channel differentiation, driving cross-functional alignment on seasonal launch calendars for maximum impact in-market
  • End-to-end ownership of GTM processes for the category
  • Owns the translation of consumer, competitor, and marketplace insights into actionable category strategies
  • Act as the key liaison between global Merchandising teams and local sales/marketing functions, facilitating market feedback, and sell through insights
  • Own Category specific inputs to review demand & supply KPIs in-line with category commercial objectives
  • Develop advanced reporting dashboards and tools to monitor assortment efficiency, sell-through, and profitability

Requirements

  • Demonstrated experience in Category Merchandising/Management within Sporting Goods/Sports Lifestyle or Fashion Industries.
  • Commercial & Financial planning capabilities within an Omni-channel business model. Including, Gross Sales, Net Sales, Gross Margin & planning/forecasting experience with ability to translate into actionable merchandise strategies
  • Go-to-Market (GTM) leadership – experience in leading an end-to-end GTM process.
  • Merchandise Manager / Category Management experience essential – Range/Assortment planning, Distribution, pricing etc.
  • Highly developed knowledge and understanding of Market, Consumer and Competitor insights within the ANZ Sporting Goods market, Outdoor and Sports Lifestyle Segment experience are preferable
Applicant Tracking System Keywords

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Hard Skills & Tools
category strategyassortment planningfinancial planningpricingvolume forecastinglifecycle managementreporting dashboardsmerchandise strategiesGTM processplanning/forecasting
Soft Skills
cross-functional alignmentcommunicationleadershipmarket feedback facilitationconsumer relevancecommercial viabilityinnovationorganizational skillsanalytical skillscollaboration