SENIOR MANAGER INLINE BUYING HYPE

PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION.
Lead the responsible category in terms of managing merchandising planning, buying in determining store clusters, article selection, article depth, and timely providing sales analysis, trading/fashion trend recommendation to support the business.
Play a critical role to drive brand direction, category’s business growth.
KEY RESPONSIBILITIES.
Pre-Season Buying.
· To develop buy plan per channel, per store cluster according to buying strategy, top down financial target, and deeply understanding of fashion trend and consumer.
· Based on existing analysis model to provide detailed analysis on the article level to identify key drivers for top selling articles, as well as slow moving articles.
· Develop each channel, and store cluster proposal and distribution plan.
· Monitor buying quantity vs.
budget; reconcile buy plan to merchandise plan.
Assortment Planning ： ·   Create assortment plans by channel/store clusters based on GCA RA, local needs & C/C calendar ·   Create detailed product & store segmentation/cluster by Product segment & store segmentation ·   Develop hype assortment seasonal strategy base on store consumer profile, store segmentation, event needs and sell through performance for online & offline stores.
·   Integrate with BC and RM into c/c campaign planning with right mandatory package to build up at cluster level In-Season Buying Execution.
· Lead to plan launch mechanism and distribution for each Hype drop, align with cross function team, make sure a smooth Hype GTM process.
· Closely monitor ST% and product performance by channel, region and store format, to have quick in-season actions based on performance.
· Lead in Hype launch plan for ECOM mega moment and offline channel special event.
· Lead in the process to provide ongoing product and category performance and quantitative analysis.
· Provide analysis to develop mark down strategy and support markdown and clearance process.
· Maintain & Monitor compliance of pre-season buy as well as planning calendar   Post-Season Review.
· Provide analysis and documentation for post-season review.
· Provide seasonal deep dive analysis for customers.
· Partner with X-function team to develop action steps for next season.
Systems and Processes Manage with Retail Business   Planning and I.
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on all retail database accuracy and on-time KPIs report delivery.
Training · Participate in systems training.
· Participate in Products seasonal presentation and technology training as well as merchandising training.
People Management · Lead team in daily performance.
· Coach team members & newcomers to improve merchandising knowledge.
Others · Other job-related work assigned from Line Manager.
KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES.
Solid Data analyzing know how, with x- cross functional experience, Product Management or Merchandising experience Have knowledge about sneaker culture and sensitive with fashion trend.
Understand hype/collaboration launch logic and mechanism Have connection with sneaker community.
Excellent interpersonal/communication skills (internal & external) People management skills Team player High influencing skill Practical, reactive Results oriented High execution ability and self-management           REQUISITE EDUCATION, EXPERIENCE AND OTHER SKILL   University advanced degree Minimum 8 years’ experience in merchandising planning / buying function, has team management experience.
Great understanding of retail business Effective partnering, communication, and influencing skills (written and orally) –someone who can proactively communicate analysis/methodologies with functional partners and influence them to rethink and change their existing practices Prefer very good Excel modeling skills and ability to develop useful models/tools that can be rolled out to merchandising and retail teams Excellence presentation and PPT skills