Brooks Running

Paralegal

• Execute company trademark strategy in cooperation with in-house counsel and direct outside counsel on various global trademark actions including applications, renewals, oppositions, non-use cancellations and appeals
• Oversee the trademark clearance process for new product names, technology names, and certain marketing assets, conducting in-house trademark research and working with outside counsel as needed, communicating results to attorney and/or clients
• Collaborate with the business and outside counsel to review, grant and manage trademark customs recordals, tracking deadlines and preparing materials for filing and/or for outside counsel
• Assist attorney with managing, drafting, and filing trademark oppositions, cancellations, and conflict matters (e.g., cease and desist letters)
• Manage, track, oversee, and produce evidence of use as needed to maintain global trademarks or for the purpose of opposition, cancellations and/or responding to office actions
• In partnership with counsel, manage certain trademark conflicts, negotiate resolutions, and communicate with opposing counsel
• Own frontline watch notice (and other third-party conflict), reviewing and making recommendations to counsel about the next steps, directing outside counsel according to business goals and in-house counsel advice
• Coordinate with and support in-house counsel in fighting counterfeits
• Support marketing by reviewing certain marketing assets, as needed, and conducting risk assessments, aligning attorneys on risk tolerance
• Draft terms and conditions for sales promotions and support attorneys in drafting longer form terms and conditions for contests and sweepstakes
• Research and review products and packaging for trademark, design, and copyright issues on an ad hoc basis as needed and as requested by in-house counsel
• Provide project management oversight and coordination with the legal team of all product collaborations, special editions, and sponsorships, including collaborating with contract team, marketing team, and supporting any intellectual property and/or licensing reviews
• Anticipate legal tasks independently and provide practical business advice and legal information on legal topics, escalating to in-house attorneys as needed and in a timely manner
• Compile reports and metrics for key leaders through dashboard summaries of all trademark and brand protection work
• Support docketing work, as needed, by inputting deadlines, saving files and emails, running reports, and/or coordinating with outside counsel or docketing clerk to manage deadlines and maintain files
• Perform other related duties as required

Temporary Paralegal

Ecommerce

• Develop and own a cohesive, on-brand digital merchandising experience that establishes a balance between data and curation to drive engagement, loyalty, and conversion.
• Lead the merchandising strategy, including cross-merchandising, product recommendations, product setup, collection management, product content, product feature and benefit calls outs, product education, outfitting, product color-ups and SMUs, and seasonal product launches.
• Drive the online merchandising calendar for marketing campaigns, product stories, and promotions. Use customer journey maps, industry insights, channel marketing plans, and our integrated marketing calendar to ensure we produce seasonal experiences that inspire runners.
• Pursue new and creative opportunities to drive sell-through and cross-category purchases through optimizations to product wayfinding and product presentation. Bring new ideas on stories to tell, technology to surface, and other opportunities to connect with the Brooks runner.
• Develop merchandising and personalization best practices to drive increased units per order, average order value, and reduce friction in the online journey.
• Manage the product lifecycle and provide insights to partners on key metrics such as inventory health and sell through trends so channels may react and optimize appropriately.
• Lead the team to manage and optimize engaging, runner-focused digital content such as homepage, landing pages, runner centric articles, and more ensuring alignment with SEO strategies and brand content.
• Become a Brooks product expert to ensure accurate and optimal placement and marketing of products within categories, filters, navigation, and recommendations.
• Partner closely with the Global, Digital and Integrated Marketing teams to align on the customer journey and execute against the editorial and campaign calendars. Collaborate with the Creative team on assets for eCommerce campaigns and product launches.
• Partner with the Site Experience, Optimization and Digital Products teams to bring new runner-first merchandising functionality to our site.
• Collaborate with Product, Demand and Supply planning teams to drive assortment recommendations, MRA’s/SMU’s, as well as style count, and depth for preseason purchasing.
• Establish metrics of success and monitoring across user experience for personalization, site merchandising and product discovery. Report on product insights based on customer behavior, inventory, conversion, sell through and market trends. Use these insights to drive merchandising decisions.
• Exhibits initiative to look beyond the everyday business to look for opportunities to maximize sales potential.
• Lead, coach, and mentor a team that collaborates, communicates, performs at high levels, learns something new every day, and challenges the norm.
• Other responsibilities as required.

Senior Manager, eCommerce Merchandising

Account Manager

• Develop a territorial or key account revenue goal that aligns with N. America yearly growth goals, across all product categories including footwear, apparel, accessories.
• Build a strong pre-seasonal playbook that identifies growth across seasonal backlog goals in key product initiatives, with a clear understanding of impact to achieving full-year revenue growth.
• Create and manage in-season bulk flow across key products that align to growth targets for each key account, utilizing sell-thru reporting to make forward thinking decisions on flow and assortment.
• Work closely with Retail Analytics that help inform internal stakeholders with decisions on supply planning to meet key account revenue goals.
• Build and achieve monthly revenue outlook for key accounts.
• Analyze and manage impact of sell-thru and inventory levels during in-season to drive replenishment (at once) and forward-thinking assortment opportunity.
• Collaborate with Sales leadership on long-term strategic goals, across multiple horizons, reaching out 1-2 years.
• Develop a monthly business review across your key account that provides feedback to internal teams around the health of your account and competition.
• Present (externally) and Collaborate (internally) on seasonal GTM needs and opportunities that ladder up into key tactics, across physical and digital platforms.
• Develop and lead product presentations that create strong seasonal adoption and expand out assortment beyond our core product categories.
• Schedule and participate in seasonal product pre-line feedback.
• Develop and collaborate cross-functionally each sales program via grassroots events, including in-store promotions, expos, store running teams, etc. to create product trial and sell through for key impact moments.
• Partner and inform Guru team on strategic initiatives that help focus their attention on key moments.
• Build and strengthen relationships with key stakeholders within Brooks, such as Credit, Runner Experience, and Distribution Center, providing effective solutions to service while expanding our business.
• Build and strengthen relationships with key internal stakeholders such as key executives, buyers, replenishment managers, marketing teams, to meet any Brooks internal needs.
• Be the expert on your key account and provide field feedback on our products, information on competitor's products, programs, and services, as well as marketplace activities.
• Travel includes to accounts in assigned territories, with additional travel to attend tradeshows, bi-annual sales meetings, and key account visits.

Senior Key Account Manager

Analyst

• Deliver Integrated Planning Reporting & Analytics
• Develop and maintain dashboards and reports for demand and supply planning data to provide actionable insights to key stakeholders, including but not restricted to: KPIs, Root Cause analysis, Monthly demand planning reports, Demand Review dashboards, rolling forecast tracker, 24Mo EMEA demand plan consolidation
• Support EMEA Demand Planning and Supply Planning teams on all analytics needs, including identifying automation opportunities and execute them through available tools such as Knime and Power BI
• Support scenario planning by modeling different demand and supply scenarios and their impacts
• Assist in gathering and analyzing data from various sources to support business initiatives across Integrated Planning
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams to understand business needs and requirements
• Support the documentation of key processes and procedures
• Lead, mentor and train IP team members and cross-functional partners on the tools, systems, and processes within the Integrated Planning team
• Work independently on projects in the Integrated Planning environment
• Assist Demand Planning Team in preparing and facilitating monthly (pre) Demand Review
• Assist Planning Teams in preparing S&OE content
• Build, maintain and execute data integration flows using KNIME and similar tools
• Build, maintain and update reporting and dashboards in Power BI and similar tools
• Own and maintain product data for global inventory styles and samples across ERP and Supply Planning systems; ensure data integrity through audits and adherence to master data policies.
• Serve as the primary contact for product data issues, driving resolution through process or technology changes in collaboration with cross-functional teams.
• Optimize data management processes to improve responsiveness to demand shifts.
• Lead auditing and exception reporting to ensure timely and accurate data in systems of record.
• Oversee item setup in PLM and ERP systems, including pre-audit and post-setup reviews to improve data accuracy.
• Collaborate with functional and technical teams to define and support product master data requirements.
• Analyze data quality issues, propose solutions, and guide cleansing efforts for migrations and implementations.
• Build strong relationships across teams to ensure effective communication and alignment on master data strategy.
• Support training, testing, and cross-functional projects related to product data systems.
• Serve as a subject matter expert on product data and ERP systems, identifying opportunities for enhancements and ongoing support.

Integrated Planning Analyst, EMEA

Compliance

• Handle daily operations with the Canadian Customs Broker and other related parties to ensure timely clearance of shipments and compliance with Canada import laws and Brooks policies
• Conduct daily Canada CADentry audits and provide approval to brokers to submit to Canada Customs
• Investigate and resolve Canada shipment discrepancies and file entry amendments as needed
• Manage relationship with Canada Customs brokers, conduct quarterly business reviews, report monthly broker KPIs, and maintain SOP and account databases
• Manage CARM and Single Window programs with CBS
• Validate and approve duty invoices for payment
• Own and manage the Canada returns process, create US Customs clearance documents, collaborate with Freight Forwarder and US warehouse, and reconcile shipment data
• Manage Canada drawback filings and required recordkeeping to ensure regulatory compliance and timely refunds
• Serve as primary point of contact for courier shipment issues and manage customs clearance delays
• Provide customs clearance support for Canada marketing and/or race event shipments
• Demonstrate working knowledge of Canada free trade agreement requirements and analyze shipments for reduced duty eligibility
• Generate certificates of origin and work with Canadian Customs Brokers to declare benefits accurately
• Work with Product teams to identify free trade savings opportunities and execute CPTPP declarations on eligible product
• Support global customs classification process by interpreting for Canada region and classifying product with correct Canada HTS codes
• Collaborate with external consultant and Finance to submit annual transfer price adjustment filing with CBSA
• Conduct liability analysis and renew Canada Import Customs bonds annually
• Support preparation, audit, and follow up of CBSA Canada audits
• Manage, audit, and maintain recordkeeping of import and export documents per Canada customs regulations
• Develop standardized policies and procedures to drive operational excellence for Canada trade operations
• Analyze customs data monthly and report KPIs and cost savings related to Canada imports and exports
• Stay up to date with Canada customs and other government agencies’ regulations and make recommendations to Brooks processes
• Participate in customs compliance webinars, seminars, and networking and develop internal/external compliance training
• Serve as a backup to North America trade compliance team roles

Trade Compliance Analyst

Manager

• Lead the team responsible for the overall strategic technology roadmap for major applications used in the planning, design, development and marketing of Brooks’ products, including Product Information Management (PIM) and Product Lifecycle Management (FlexPLM).
• Manage the overall technology relationship with vendor partners, identify and ensure enhancements are delivered successfully and ensure production service levels are met.
• Build and grow business partnerships to represent the technological relationship with Apparel and Footwear teams.
• People Leadership: Lead, mentor and coach a team who manage Brooks’ product applications; hire, develop, and manage performance; architect organization model; create a service-oriented, highly collaborative culture.
• Technology Leadership: Define technology roadmap; own lifecycle including planning, design, implementation, testing, support and enhancement; collaborate with business leaders to understand requirements, costs and timelines; manage intake, acceptance criteria and prioritization; manage teamwork assignments and timelines; ensure system gaps are addressed and root causes resolved.
• Vendor & Security: Manage relationships with technology vendors; work with Legal and Information Security during procurement; collaborate with Information Security to ensure applications are secured and compliant with PCI and GDPR.
• Procurement & Compliance: Make recommendations for purchase of technology resources, review and negotiate contracts, ensure vendor performance; ensure applications adhere to internal and external compliance standards; maintain documentation including functional and technical specifications and SOPs.
• Budget Management: Manage operational and capital budgets and reforecasts for your area; operate to planned budget and contribute to overall IT budget; learn Brooks requirements around budget planning and capex documentation.

Senior Manager, IT Product Solutions

Project Manager

• Execute tactical creative requests from start to finish – delivering on-time and aligned with established creative guidance.
• Provide project coordination for scheduling and securing creative resources in partnership with creative operations.
• Clearly communicate project status to key cross functional partners.
• Communicate potential risks and proactively work to resolve any issues throughout the project life cycle.
• Enforce compliance with our work intake and workflow management tools.
• Work with requestors to clarify project specific information and requirements prior to kickoff.
• Monitor and assign individual responsibilities and enforce accountability of tasks and deadlines
• On occasion, partner with internal business partners and external vendors (such as printers, photographers, designers, copywriters, etc.).
• Partner and learn from other Account Managers, Project Managers, and Senior Project Managers on highly complex projects.
• Gain an understanding of the overall business by connecting and building relationships with stakeholders internally and externally.
• Learn process improvement strategies for driving efficiency and provide recommendations to management.
• Contribute to a team culture committed to improving creative efficiencies and output, and serving as the voice of the runner, heart of the brand.

Associate Project Manager, Creative

Director

• Your Job: The mission of the Merchandise Planning Team is to optimize product sales and profit across categories and channels to deliver on the company’s strategy, targets, and objectives.
• As the Director, Merchandising Planning, you will lead the product creation planning process and the merchandise financial plan for our global footwear business. You will be accountable for meeting 5-year Footwear business targets through forecasting, short and long-term go in margin strategy, pricing strategy, and product performance efficiency through partnering with cross-functional teams and utilizing market analytics.
• As the leader of product creation planning process, you will drive extreme enterprise accountability and will play a significant role in Brooks’ overall profitability. To do this effectively, you must be a confident and flexible leader of interdisciplinary, global teams where collaboration is imperative. You have an approach and point of view that starts and ends with the runner. You leverage product and business scenario planning to create and nurture a cohesive and aligned product direction that elevates and drives the impact of our product line to meet the company’s business objectives.
• You will support, motivate, and influence a global footwear team spanning multiple time zones and cultures. You will lead the Merchandise Planning team responsible costing and planning, forecasting and planning and market analytics to optimize our product calendar, expedite time to market and ensure alignment with enterprise growth objectives.

Director, Footwear Merchandise Planning

Affiliate Manager

Own the Affiliate Program strategy and expand program to content, influencers, and partner networks to drive incremental revenue, grow runners one digital referral at a time, and open new marketing/advertising opportunities for the brand
Own the direct-to-consumer mail strategy and process, completing the brief, pagination, and creative execution with cross-functional teams
Own tactical planning for key marketing campaigns (Tier 2,3) for affiliate and direct mail programs
Manage partner agencies and external vendors, providing them with clear direction and strategic leadership
Own request process for program creative needs and contribute to design feedback in partnership with manager for direct mail campaigns
Support launch of referral marketing program, in close partnership with manager, Loyalty, Ecommerce and Digital Products teams
Own budget management for programs including quarterly/yearly forecasting and modeling in partnership with agencies/external vendors
Assist manager in developing the quarterly budget plans and monthly targets, and approaching agile budget planning process based on the business flows
Pull data, analyze, draw insights, and clearly communicate campaign results to team members and provide recommendations to improve spending and inform optimizations
Analyze eCommerce-based campaign performance data, reporting weekly key KPIs and providing actionable insights to meet business goals
Develop test and learn opportunities across all programs with aligned KPIs
Own measurement and reporting on all affiliate related programs, as well as direct mail (close partnership with Paid Media agencies, data vendors and Analytics.
Monitor and report a detailed monthly dashboard of KPIs to all stakeholders on the broader marketing team
Work cross-functionally with internal teams (including Digital Products, Integrated Marketing, Creative, eCommerce, Analytics, Integrated Marketing, and IT) and external vendors to lead delivery of key programs, campaigns, and workstreams
Develop and define the tools and metrics to measure, report and optimize our investments
Other responsibilities as required

Principal, Affiliate Marketing and Direct Mail

• Note: This role is based in Northern California and is responsible for the entire Northern California territory.
• The Territory Manager is responsible for driving Brooks product sales and growth within their designated specialty accounts within a specific territory. You will manage specific sell-in and sell-thru aspects of business across Brooks categories including footwear, apparel, accessories, and socks. This includes managing seasonal sell-in and in-season sell-through across each of the designated accounts, generating strong and consistent growth results against our annual goals in revenue and profit.