Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

• Lead the process for brand driven / cross functional projects.
• Lead the business review process for sustainable brand growth, with quantitative data and qualitative insights.
• Lead the range process through Range Architecture role to review and validate range size, profitability, pricing and all merchandizing related KPIs.
• Lead and manage range master data to ensure data quality and facilitate various analysis & reporting.

1. Planning & Insights

• Lead the process for brand driven projects to be completed successfully with sharing data, assumption and direction.
• Work with Business Units, Assortment Planning, Channels, Brand Activation, Supply Chain, Finance teams to drive seasonal strategies and priorities and drive operational excellence while validating.
• Manage selected brand projects or priorities.
• Build and optimize tools and reports to analyze the business, and provide insights to key stakeholders.
• Gather market & consumer insights from various sources, and summarize into actionable input for other teams in Brand and Channels to implement.

2. Master Data Management

• Lead the ranging process, ensure master data are created & maintained following Go-To-Market timeline.
• Lead the data cleansing, to ensure all master data are consistent for analysis purpose.
  • • Supervise market related master data management like Customer Range Segmentation, Japan Sizing
    • Lead smooth master transition across systems.
    • Lead system enhancement and user-acceptance-testing co-work with IT.

3. Range Architecture

• Build Japan Range Architecture as guidance for Business Units teams’ range creation, including but not limited to: Article / Model count, product type, pricing, cost, launch month curve, campaign focus products, etc.
• Create Option Plan for Channels as the guidance for Assortment Planning.

Key Relationships:

• Business Units
• Brand Activation
• Go-To-Market Operations
• Assortment Planning
• Retail Merchandizing
• Ecom Buying
• Category Sales (Wholesale)
• Business Planning & Operations (Wholesale)
• FP&A / Demand Planning
• Supply Chain Management

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• At least 8 years in sporting goods or related industry
• Strong data analysis skill
• Strong process management skill
• Leadership
• Communication / Negotiation
• Market / Financial knowledge

Requisite Education / Qualifications:

• University Degree (BS, BA, or equivalent)
• Advanced PC Skill (MS Excel / Word / PowerPoint / Power BI)
• Fluent in English, Fluent in Japanese (Preferable)