Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role is responsible for managing pre-season and in-season Planning & Buying of Performance Apparel for Own Retail concept stores. In this role you are part of a team responsible for maximizing the sales, profitability & brand equity of the MENA region by building the merchandising strategy for the market.

Key Responsibilities:

• • Work with Buying Manager, Senior Manager (Concept Store) and Director Merchandising MENA in executing MENA DTC merchandising goals and drive execution of DTC Strategy.
  • Deliver financial targets including Net sales, Sell through, Standard Margin.
  • Have a clear understanding of the competitive landscape and create strategies that will help us compete and outpace our competitors.
  • Liaise with Operations to ensure we gain in depth consumer insights & implement learnings into pre-season & in-season strategy.
  • In-depth product & market knowledge of performance segments.
  • Contribute to pre-season planning including Open-To-Buy (OTB) plan, pre-season product planning, option planning and ranging.
  • Drive weekly trade reports to optimize in-season trading opportunities.
  • Own the process of ranging, execution and assortment planning strategies for own retail stores.
  • Store visits as needed and advised by the business.
  • Excellent excel proficiencies with the ability to devise macro’s, develop and elevate buying processes through efficient excel reporting.
  • Additional: Power BI tool, Micro-strategy, other dynamic reporting systems.

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Creative and clear passion for product and sports.
• Strong process and project management skills
• Proficiency on MS Office Applications Excel, Word, Outlook and Power Point.
• Good understanding of Retail Management processes & systems
• Ability to influence and drive consensus and solutions with cross functional teams
• Ability to write reports, business correspondence.
• Ability to speak, read and write in English fluently, additional language skills beneficial.
• Ability to travel both domestic and internationally as needed.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Buying, Product Design, Fashion Design, Retail Management, Business Management, ideally with Marketing and Sales focus or equivalent professional experience.
• 4 Years+ overall work experience in Merchandising/Retail projects.