General
- Support the manager as the category lead.
- Work collaboratively with other team members and cross-functional partners.
- Partner with Central Teams as the zone category representative.
Sales Reporting & Analytics
- Prepare daily/weekly/monthly sales and sell through reports.
- Proactively initiate ad hoc analysis to explore new opportunities and business concerns.
- Provide deep dive and qualitative feedback for Zone & Central.
Assortment Management
- Attend 4 buying sessions a year.
- Create assortments considering brand strategies and market specificities, while delivering sales targets.
- In-season management, re-assorting stores based on performance, new opportunities, activations, etc.
Training & Collection Launch Preparation
- Partner with other categories on 360 Transversal Launches.
- Proactively initiate ad hoc analysis to explore new opportunities and business concerns.
- Provide deep dive and qualitative feedback for Zone & Central.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners (i.e. Retail, Learning & Development, Digital, Visual Merchandising, Communications, Client Development, etc.) to achieve 360 category objectives.
- Partnership with Country Merchandisers and Retail Teams to drive sales and understand market needs.
- Be the bridge between the South Asia zone (each country / store) and Paris team.
Supply Chain
- Partner closely with Supply Chain Team to ensure the right stock, at the right stores, in the right quantities.
- Work collaboratively on in-season sales forecasts and during buying sessions.
- Share category strategies to ensure alignment in stock management.
Retail
- Close communication with stores to understand product feedback and opportunities, as well as clients.
- Provide Retail Teams with tools and information to achieve sales targets.
- Support special events and activations.
Market & Competition Update
- Understand market trends and competitor strategies for market context and to feedback to Central team.
- Provide market feedback, product needs and opportunities to Central team for collection creation.
- Apply insights from market analysis to category action plans.
