Strategic Leadership & Business Driver
- Build annual budget and targets by product category by store and ensure their achievement
- Outline key product priorities for the year/semester/quarter and follow up the performance
- Identify growth opportunities and emerging product trends and translate insights into actionable strategies, tools, and campaigns to drive results
- Be a key stakeholder and an active contributor of the regional management team, work collaboratively with all departments and stores to drive valuable growth of the business
- Develop and own commercial reporting on a weekly, monthly, quarterly and annual basis to provide insight, support prioritisation and align on key actions
- Partner with EMEA and Global Teams to ensure consistency and excellence in merchandising execution across markets
Product Assortments & Store Offers
- Attend buying sessions to influence the relevance of assortment in store according to client demographic
- Influence product potential by sharing local feedback and insight
- Regularly review maximum product levels with supply chain
- Drive client strategy through newness, by capitalising on each product launch to elevate our client development approach
- Create and update product launch plans; coordinate cross-functional launch efforts; communicate plans to stores and track results
- Collaborate with supply chain to ensure correct availability at launches and further replenishment
- Maximise sell through on all categories, supporting store teams with client requests to secure each opportunity
Visual Merchandising
- Ensure store standards are maintained in line with Louis Vuitton standards and business targets
- Pro-actively assess and leverage VM to maximise sales performance
- Support store projects including pop-ups/ins, new store openings
- Plan and budget all VM animations
Partnership with Stores
- Support, challenge and coach the stores on implementation of priorities and ensure the achievement of business goals
- Partner with HR and learning to determine expertise required in store and create strong product expert community for key product categories
- Lead the creation and roll-out of engaging training programs and workshops that build skills, motivation, and consistency in expert categories
- Collaborate with Clienteling and store teams during international and national events, providing product expertise, insight and following up on post-event invoicing
Team Development
- Coach and lead a high-performing Merchandising team, fostering a culture of trust, accountability, and professionalism
- Define the team structure, roles, and responsibilities in alignment with business priorities, ensuring clear ownership, agility and empowerment
- Establish individual and team goals and objectives; as well as growth plans and development paths to develop internal talent and elevate the team performance
- Regularly assess team performance and engagement through structured feedback, goal setting, and development reviews
