ALTERNANCE - Assistant Merchandiser (F/H)

In your role you will assist the Senior merchandiser & the Collection Director in the merchandising initiatives, and support market/region growth thanks to performance analysis and global strategy implementation (product & image).

Reporting to the Collection Director (sport), your role will be to develop your category through strategic GTM tools & initiatives.

1) Performance analysis & financial framing of the global offer:

1. For your category, you’ll have a crucial position in the definition of the collection framing, performance/data consolidation & reporting.
2. Participate in performance analysis of the collection (sell-in, sell-out, colors, prices, tiering, etc.).
3. Define, animate & follow performance KPIs vs. Growth targets.
4. Define SKUs plan & support the definition of the collections in collaboration with the product managers.
5. Consolidate & update forecast & RID in collaboration with supply & finance.

2) Be the ambassador of the global product strategy towards markets and the voice of the markets towards global:

1. You are the gatekeeper of the strategy communication & implementation within markets and help define local product assortment.
2. Merchandising strategy & guidelines.
3. Consolidate market feedback & needs based on hindsight data.
4. Ensure the communication of market needs & priorities towards the cross-functional team.
5. Define assortment guidelines (size, category…) for each region following consumer specificities & budget constraints.
6. Supervise & collaborate with the sales team to tackle specific channel needs / collection tiering.

3) Go to market:

1. Ensure the understanding of the global product strategy and support its implementation through efficient sell-in tools.
2. Plan, animate & ensure regions overlap from a product POV & from a GTM tools POV.
3. Consolidate market feedback to influence future collection.
4. Build, in collaboration with product managers, all the collection presentation tools (collection boards, PPT for key milestones).