Lead Merchandise Planning, Japan & South Korea

At a Glance

As Merchandising Planning Lead (Japan and South Korea), you will ensure the right products reach the right channels, tiers, accounts, and stores at the right time and price. You will build the Apparel, Accessories, and Footwear assortments by developing and implementing our global brand strategy & gaining customer insights through close collaboration with our wholesale partners. You will lead forecasting and use new data-analysis tools, turning your findings into short-term actions and long-term product strategies.

Your Team

You will be part of the APAC Merchandising team; we’re at the heart of the engine. You'll work directly with experts in regional sales, marketing, E-com & supply chain to create something extraordinary. Our cross-functional interaction is driven by a market-relevant, consumer-focused mindset, touching all departments across the organization to set a commercial plan, identify profitable growth, and act together on sales opportunities/threats. This role reports to the Senior Lead Merchandising Planning Japan and South Korea.

Your Mission

• This role will cover all categories: Apparel, Accessories and Footwear for all genders. This requires a holistic way of building H2T assortments.
• Work closely with the Japan and South Korea local sales teams to develop assortments and seasonal forecasts for strategic key accounts and account channels. Regular participation in external meetings with accounts is expected for this role.
• You will work closely with our marketing campaign teams to align product launch dates in line with marketing efforts.
• Contribute to the collection pricing architecture and optimize the effect of full-price sales through competitor price mapping and price adjustments with our pricing team.
• Understand the markets and consumer targets, as well as fashion and performance competencies and those of our competitors.

Your Story

• You have 6 years’ experience with a minimum of 3 years’ experience in a merchandising or merchandise planning role.
• You have a strong track record of business results from your previous roles, preferably within Merchandising, Retail, Product Management, and Business Analytics.
• You have experience developing distribution strategy while keeping consumers, accounts, and sales teams front of mind.
• You have an analytical, data-driven mindset with a clear focus on results.
• You are a strong communicator and presenter to diverse internal and external audiences.
• You have full business proficiency in Japanese and English.
  (You have full business proficiency in Korean and English.)

What we offer

We offer a dynamic, challenging and sportive environment that has been ranked as the ‘fastest growing sports company’ of its time. With offices across the globe, we are an international team who is hungry to innovate and build something incredible. We foster an active environment where everyone thrives for excellence and can achieve their full potential. This is where your work matters, you’re hands-on and your team members are amongst the very best in their respective disciplines and fields.

If you are driven to bring On to the next level, curious about the opportunity and want to be part of our growing team send us your application and join the ONiverse!

On is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We are committed to creating a work environment that is fair and inclusive, where all decisions related to recruitment, advancement, and retention are free of discrimination.