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VF Corporation Director, Product & Merchandising - Apparel (Vans APAC) in Shanghai, China
YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE: Including but not limited to:
Manage a simplified, empowered offense grounded in key ways of working: multi-season approach to product mix; franchise and classification excellence; and managing for product essentials, newness, innovation & exploration.
Distill and drive consumer/market insights and strategic concepts into a rolling, multi-season product line architecture that considers the full consumer journey.
Drives the APAC apparel product creation strategy while commercial opportunities, including speed creation, celebrating local relevant moments and hyperlocal capsules.
Proactively lead product lifecycle management to effectively serve our consumers.
Partner with finance and planning to set target financial goals (revenue, units, and margin) and number of consumer choices against attributes (e.g. franchise, consumer dimension).
Create regional architecture framework and translate global direction into initial line plan to identify what product we will bring to the consumer, bringing clarity to investment and divestment strategy.
Determine and tag product fields for strategic intent (e.g. how a product serves a given consumer), product lifecycle, and pricing architecture.
Lead strong partnership with Marketing and Demand Planning to deliver against the Line Plan, ensuring plan meets consumer needs and financial targets.
Sets guidelines, targets, and follows through on APAC Adoption inclusive of harmonization targets, while maintaining ongoing Global connectivity with clearly defined checkpoints and feedback loops.
Foster strong, integrated partnership with Product peer & team, soliciting input & expertise for agreed-upon Line Architecture.
Lead the apparel product and merchandising team
WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:
Strong communication and collaboration skills
Strong logic and reasoning skills including Retail and Financial acumen
Analytical mindset with strong knowledge or retail and apparel industry
Merchandising principles, assortment planning including retail math
Bias for action / self-directed / problem solver
Insights or familiarity with Streetwear consumer and market trends (Vans consumer is a plus)
Language: Fluent in English; proficiency in Mandarin a plus
Project management skills
Competency Requirements :
Behavioral Competencies –
Resilience
Building trust
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Cultural Fit
People Leader and Team Player
Building Partnerships
Planning & Organizing & Tracking information
Customer and Consumer Focus
Result oriented
Curiosity
Desirable –
Adaptability
Innovation
Continuous Improvement
Story telling
Empowerment
Functional Competencies –
Microsoft- especially in Excel and Powerpoint
FlexPLM experience is a plus
Merchandising Logic and assortment building
Apparel creation process
Experience
Minimum Relevant Experience: +10 years’ experience in merchandising, preferably in the fashion industry (Apparel is a plus)
Minimum Supervisory Experience: +5 years
Language Proficiency:
Fluent in : English
Mandarin is a plus
R-20240319-0004
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