Hybrid Merchandising Manager - Footwear & Apparel

New Balance Athletics, Inc.; Boston (MA); Hybrid; USD 100,000 - 158,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Medical Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

401K

Tuition Reimbursement

Lifestyle Reimbursement

4 weeks vacation

12 holidays

Parental leave

Job summary

New Balance Athletics, Inc. in Boston seeks an experienced merchandising leader to develop and implement seasonal directed assortments for must-win and priority accounts, driving Go-To-Market processes with Global Business Units and North America sales.

You will lead styling and category optimization, collaborate with marketing, merchants, and retailers, and coach junior merchandisers while maintaining category margins and on-time delivery.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree required, with 5+ years of industry experience preferably in footwear and/or apparel buying and/or merchandising.
• Experience with product planning, sales forecasting and working to budgets
• Knowledge of account segmentation & differentiation, range architecture, product assortments, concept drivers, and product flow.
• Leadership skills with the ability to influence, both formal and informal.
• Excellent interpersonal skills with the desire to build lasting relationships internally and with key retail partners.
• Strong problem-solving and decision-making skills are essential.
• Superior communication skills, especially presentation skills.
• Computer skills including advanced Excel
• Travel required

Responsibilities

• Drive the footwear product & apparel distribution, segmentation strategy and account category mix for our must win & priority accounts.
• Develop Seasonal Must Land Assortments, from the Regional Footwear/Apparel product line, for these specific key accounts, to support key brand initiatives and delivers financial objectives across categories, price and margin, as well as turn.
• In cooperation with RBU Merchants, Sales and Marketing, develop best in class Go-To-Market process, timing and execution.
• Evaluate and implement seasonal introduction strategy. Define key merchandising touch points and function ownership.
• Ensure alignment within and across the RBUs to support key drivers and Head-to-Toe merchandising.
• Develop seasonal story/product introduction timing and flow consistent with Customer Seasonality and balanced with supply chain capacity considerations.
• Drive model and style efficiency; tighter assortments, eliminate overlap between categories and price points, increase expectations within categories we compete – reduce non-strategic and/or non-high volume models, and increase style level expectations – tighten up excessive color options.
• Develop mid and long-term key account product line-ups that clearly communicate model/style lifecycle.

Skills

Leadership

Communication

Excel

Forecasting

Strategy

Travel

Education

Bachelor's degree

Tools

Excel

Job description

New Balance Athletics, Inc. in Boston seeks an experienced merchandising leader to develop and implement seasonal directed assortments for must-win and priority accounts, driving Go-To-Market processes with Global Business Units and North America sales.

You will lead styling and category optimization, collaborate with marketing, merchants, and retailers, and coach junior merchandisers while maintaining category margins and on-time delivery.