Assistant Merchandising Manager
Posted on: 6 Apr 2021
Winston-Salem, NC
Job Description
Overview
The Assistant Merchandising Manager for Champion North America will play an integral role managing the seasonal and core product line development process. This individual will be responsible for developing assortment frameworks and consumer centered product briefs that address their deep understanding of North America athletic/activewear target consumers, channels and competitive set. This individual will also need to understand trends and analyze consumer and marketplace data. They will oversee and ensure that key deliverables and deadlines are met including achievement of milestones.
The individual will embrace the Champion muses and have a relentless desire to gain a deep understanding of their influencers, product, fashion, color and style trends. This individual must exude passion for product and have excellent communication and presentation skills. Working in a highly matrixed organization the successful candidate must be able to influence, collaborate, and create consensus. The candidate must be highly organized and demonstrate strong analytical skills as well as a high level of attention to detail.
Responsibilities
* Provide product frameworks and briefs which give clear product direction and information to development and design partners.
* Manage and execute to designated calendar milestones from design brief to product launches.
* Manage product costs to meet margin requirements set by activewear leadership.
* Analyze product line performance inclusive of add/drops, sell-in, sell-through, AUR, customer turns and profitability.
* Ensure maintenance and governance of the style master data and product lifecycle.
* Responsible for sales/customer presentations, both internally and externally to key retailers/partners.
* Develop and manage an effective working relationship between design, merchandising, sales, and marketing communications to effectively plan new product line introductions.
* Drive SKU/Style productivity goals.
* Seasonal market shopping and maintenance of seasonal competitive sample chart.
* In partnership with consumer insights, conduct consumer research to identify trends and market opportunities that creates a competitive edge.
* Look for opportunities to drive Champions sustainability objectives.
* Manage and coordinate samples including sales, ad samples and customer samples.
* Manage master-style data set-up.
* Replenishment inventory management.
Qualifications
* Required Education/ Certification: Bachelor's degree is required.
* Required Years of Experience: 3+ years' experience, preferably in the athletic/activewear industry
* Ability to demonstrate a general understanding of the North America consumer (tastes, habits, preferences, interests & behaviors)
* Strong analytical abilities
* Innovative and creative new thinking and ideas pertaining to product and process
* Creativity and passion for product
* Embraces a challenger brand mindset
* Excellent presentation and interpersonal communication skills
* Able to create consensus, influence, and work collaboratively
* Good attention to detail and deadlines
To qualify, applicants must be legally authorized to work in the United States and should not require now, or in the future, sponsorship for employment visa status
EOE/AA: Minorities/Females/Veterans/Disabled
Only applicants requiring reasonable accommodation for any part of the application and hiring process should contact us directly:
Telephone: 877.999.5553
Email: HBI_TA@hanes.com
Hanesbrands Inc.
Winston-Salem, NC
HanesBrands is a socially responsible manufacturer and marketer of leading everyday basic apparel under some of the world's strongest apparel brands in the Americas, Europe and Asia, as well as in Australia and South Africa. Our iconic innerwear and activewear apparel brands found in the United States and elsewhere include Hanes, Champion, Playtex, Bali, Maidenform, JMS/Just My Size, Wonderbra and Gear for Sports. Outside the United States, we also have dominant national and regional brands, including DIM, Nur Die/Nur Der, Lovable, Abanderado, Shock Absorber, Zorba, Sol y Oro, Rinbros, Track N Field and Ritmo.
We are the world’s largest marketer of basic apparel. We sell bras, panties, shapewear, sheer hosiery, men's underwear, children's underwear, socks, T-shirts, sweatshirts, fleece and other activewear. In the United States, we sell more units of intimate apparel, male underwear, socks, shapewear, hosiery and T-shirts than any other company.
Founded in 1901, Hanes has a long history of innovation, product excellence, and brand recognition. In fact, nearly 90 percent of U.S. households have our company's products in them. We revolutionized Tagless T-shirts and underwear, we invented the sports bra and the stretch-cup T-shirt bra, we were the first to advertise a bra on national television (Playtex), and we are innovating with ComfortBlend and temperature-control X-Temp fabrics and seamless Smart Sizes bras.
Our Sell More, Spend Less and Make Acquisitions strategies are driving growth and creating value for our shareholders, consumers, retailers, employees and communities. Hanes has made more than a half dozen acquisitions, including Maidenform Brands, Gear for Sports and Knights Apparel in the United States and DBApparel in Europe.
Based in Winston-Salem, N.C., Hanes is a member of the S&P 500 and is ranked No. 490 on the Fortune 500 list. The company has approximately 65,300 employees in more than 40 countries.
Unlike most apparel companies, Hanes primarily operates its own manufacturing facilities. More than 90 percent of the apparel units that we sell worldwide and in the United States are manufactured in our own plants or those of dedicated contractors.
We take great pride in our strong reputation for ethical business practices and the success of our Hanes for Good corporate responsibility program for workplace practices and community and environmental improvement. The company is the only apparel producer to ever be honored by the Great Place to Work Institute for its workplace practices in Central America and the Caribbean. In the United States, the company has earned the Forbes magazine Best Place to Work honor. Hanes has won U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Energy Star sustained excellence recognition for seven consecutive years. Hanes has significant goals for reducing energy use, carbon emissions and water use and publicly reports its progress each year.
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IndustryManufacturing
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No. of Employees67,200+
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