Assistant Manager, Category Merchandising

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Purpose of Role

The Assistant Manager, Category Merchandising is responsible for leading the Men’s Apparel merchandising division in Australia. The position involves building the optimal product range, defining retail prices, determining segmentation, and setting launch dates for all articles in the portfolio. The role will work closely with all sales channels to ensure they are supported from both a range and margin perspective, enabling them to achieve their seasonal targets.

Your Impact

Strategy

- Develop the assortment strategy, product selection, and category plans to drive market trends, generate sales, and increase category demand.
- Define channel segmentation across retail, e-commerce, and wholesale accounts, establishing the overall product category mix, margin, and pricing strategies.
- Carry out other duties as directed by the manager to support changing business needs.

Driving revenue

- Manage the product lifecycle across channels in coordination with Sales Channels and Planning.
- Utilize sales, sell-through, inventory, and margin analyses to guide merchandising plans and boost sales.
- Leverage pre-lines with wholesale accounts to identify gaps and uncover opportunities to drive revenue.
- Maximise revenue opportunities through long-term strategy, while ensuring that wholesale accounts and direct-to-consumer channels achieve their goals and financial targets.

Commercial insights and market trends

- Establish Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to evaluate category management and product assortment.
- Identify local consumer trends, market requirements, and opportunities within key accounts to influence Regional and Global teams on future developments.

Cross-functional collaboration and team management

- Work with strong attention to detail to effectively update and communicate project plans and critical tasks with relevant internal and external stakeholders, up to and including executive level. Specifically, collaborate with Marketing and Wholesale during sell-in to deliver key seasonal messages to accounts.
- Build strong working relationships with internal and external teammates to foster trust and credibility.

Data management

- Maintain and update product master data and buy overview files on an ongoing basis to ensure data integrity.

Qualifications

- Minimum of 3 years’ experience in merchandising
- Focus on financial success, with the ability to formulate strategies based on market needs and company goals
- Strong logical thinking, analytical skills, and proficiency in Excel
- Demonstrated understanding of budgetary and financial concepts
- Excellent communication and negotiation skills
- Presentable, diligent, and positive working attitude; able to multitask and pay attention to detail
- Strong understanding of brand and product
- Proven track record in achieving sales targets, budget development and tracking, and demand forecasting; persistent and resilient in pursuing objectives, willing to take on new challenges and resolve issues
- Strong interpersonal skills, with the ability to build and maintain sustainable working relationships with internal and external stakeholders

Workplace Location

- Location: Sydney

Relocation

- No relocation provided

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