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YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: Including but not limited to:

• Manage a simplified, empowered offense grounded in key ways of working: multi-season approach to product mix; franchise and classification excellence; and managing for product essentials, newness, innovation & exploration.

• Distill and drive consumer/market insights and strategic concepts into a rolling, multi-season product line architecture that considers the full consumer journey.

• Drives the APAC apparel product creation strategy while commercial opportunities, including speed creation, celebrating local relevant moments and hyperlocal capsules.

• Proactively lead product lifecycle management to effectively serve our consumers.

• Partner with finance and planning to set target financial goals (revenue, units, and margin) and number of consumer choices against attributes (e.g. franchise, consumer dimension).

• Create regional architecture framework and translate global direction into initial line plan to identify what product we will bring to the consumer, bringing clarity to investment and divestment strategy.

• Determine and tag product fields for strategic intent (e.g. how a product serves a given consumer), product lifecycle, and pricing architecture.

• Lead strong partnership with Marketing and Demand Planning to deliver against the Line Plan, ensuring plan meets consumer needs and financial targets.

• Sets guidelines, targets, and follows through on APAC Adoption inclusive of harmonization targets, while maintaining ongoing Global connectivity with clearly defined checkpoints and feedback loops.

• Foster strong, integrated partnership with Product peer & team, soliciting input & expertise for agreed-upon Line Architecture.

• Lead the apparel product and merchandising team

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

• Strong communication and collaboration skills

• Strong logic and reasoning skills including Retail and Financial acumen

• Analytical mindset with strong knowledge or retail and apparel industry

• Merchandising principles, assortment planning including retail math

• Bias for action / self-directed / problem solver

• Insights or familiarity with Streetwear consumer and market trends (Vans consumer is a plus)

• Language: Fluent in English; proficiency in Mandarin a plus

• Project management skills

Competency Requirements :

Behavioral Competencies –

• Resilience

• Building trust

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• Cultural Fit

• People Leader and Team Player

• Building Partnerships

• Planning & Organizing & Tracking information

• Customer and Consumer Focus

• Result oriented

• Curiosity

Desirable –

• Adaptability

• Innovation

• Continuous Improvement

• Story telling

• Empowerment

Functional Competencies –

• Microsoft- especially in Excel and Powerpoint

• FlexPLM experience is a plus

• Merchandising Logic and assortment building

• Apparel creation process

Experience

Minimum Relevant Experience: +10 years’ experience in merchandising, preferably in the fashion industry (Apparel is a plus)

Minimum Supervisory Experience: +5 years

Language Proficiency:

• Fluent in : English

• Mandarin is a plus

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