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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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)