PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANIZATION:
Drive end-to-end product insights & business intelligence by connecting data, analytics, and business context to deliver actionable recommendations for product teams & senior leadership. Lead a team to transform dashboards and reports into strategic, executive-ready insights.
Be the horizontal lead partnering with global & market BU/category teams to drive x-functional product topics collaborating with DNA, brand finance, channels & brand activation teams.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:
INSIGHT DRIVEN DECISION ENABLERS
: Be the one stop hub for data driven product/category insights & consistency in reporting on key brand priorities across categories, markets & competition, enabling cluster category & BU teams to drive brand priorities & unlock growth opportunities for the future by driving business reviews across brand teams.
X-CHANNEL BRAND REPORTING
: delivering weekly/monthly product insights on campaigns, key launches, horizontal topics, brand updates & planning season reports linked to forecasting & brand finance/seasonal planning
ORCHESTRATING CONSISTENCY ACROSS CATEGORY REPORTING & KEY TOPICS:
Lead a central team coordinating across BU/BA/VM for reporting on key brand updates & horizontal topics such as lifestyle running, kids, women, accessories. Collaborate with & support BU teams to drive consistency in category deep dive reports to enable actions for cluster category teams
CATEGORY POWER PACK (EMCR 2.0)
: support BU & category teams by delivering an insights-driven toolkit to drive the 'Category Power Pack' range with cluster focused performance insights, market trends and guidance for landing the key brand driven and commercial range as a foundation range across clusters.
BE THE BRAND SPOC FOR OTHER FUNCTIONS REQUIRING PRODUCT INPUT ON X
+ category topics related to Brand finance, SCM, Channels and streamlining interaction, processes, frameworks and exploration of new tools such as forecasting to enable work efficiencies in planning.
KPI'S:
Net Sales & profitability as per company targets
Dashboard visualization for all hub & cluster brand requirements
Weekly/monthly reporting excellence as per agreed cadence & priorities
Category Power pack took-kits, market & competitor intelligence reports
KEY RELATIONSHIPS:
Cluster CTC teams
EM BU teams
EM MOPS
EM Brand activation teams
EM Channel teams
EM Brand finance
Global Brand development team
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES
:
Strong leadership with a entrepreneurial proactive mindset, high action bias to connect with various functions, key stakeholders & bring together teams with credibility & trust
Ability to develop and implement strategy & direction with key focus on driving insights & action, and innovation through new tools & technologies.
Strong articulation/presentation/communication (verbal & written), & and influencing skills, especially with senior stakeholders within a global & local matrix organization.
Distinct track record of success and deep understanding of product lifecycle, trends, merchandising kpis
Strong cross-functional and stakeholder management experience across brand & commercial functions (e.g. marketing, sales, etc.) and support functions (finance, demand planning), as well as different organizational levels (Global, Market, etc.)
Strong functional merchandising & industry knowledge, across divisions--footwear, apparel and accessories--and across sporting & lifestyle categories
Leadership skills, agility and speed to drive change in a dynamic environment
REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:
10-12+ years of experience in product management, merchandising, business intelligence, marketing required. Regional/international experience preferred.
University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in business, marketing or fashion
Previous experience in managing a global matrix organization required
Sporting goods industry experience required
Fluent in English written & verbal communication
Sports industry experience & passion for sports as added advantage
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