Merchandise Manager- Performance
Role Overview
The Merchandise Manager - Performance owns the Performance Footwear Category across B2B and D2C channels.
The role translates the brand's Running strategy and merchandising vision into commercially successful market-ready assortments.
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Company
Salomon is an outdoor sports brand founded in the French Alps that designs performance-driven gear for mountain and outdoor sports.
The role supports the rapid growth of the brand across Australia and New Zealand.
Role overview
The Merchandise Manager - Performance owns the Performance Footwear Category across B2B and D2C channels.
The role translates the brand's Running strategy and merchandising vision into commercially successful market-ready assortments.
Responsibilities
- Define long-term category strategy by sub-sport and channel.
- Own assortment planning for Key Accounts and D2C channels.
- Establish range architecture balancing innovation, consumer demand and commercial viability.
- Lead seasonal financial planning, range selection, pricing, volume forecasting and lifecycle management.
- Optimise assortments for profitability, consumer relevance and channel differentiation.
- Coordinate seasonal launch calendars across functions.
- Own end-to-end go-to-market processes for the category.
- Translate consumer, competitor and marketplace insights into category strategies.
- Liaise between global Merchandising teams and local sales and marketing functions.
- Review demand and supply KPIs against category commercial objectives.
- Develop dashboards to monitor assortment efficiency, sell-through and profitability.
Skills and experience
- Demonstrated category merchandising or management experience in Performance Footwear, Running, Outdoor or broader Sporting Goods.
- Commercial and financial planning capability in an omnichannel business model.
- Experience with gross sales, net sales, gross margin and planning or forecasting.
- Experience leading an end-to-end go-to-market process.
- Merchandise Manager or Category Management experience in range planning, distribution and pricing.
- Knowledge of ANZ Sporting Goods market, consumer and competitor insights.
- Outdoor and Sports Lifestyle segment experience is preferable.
What is on offer
- The role offers the opportunity to develop a growing performance category.
- Employees receive benefits across the brand's products.
- The company describes a dynamic culture with opportunities for career development.
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