Senior Lead

In short
You will lead global merchandising for Apparel and Accessories within our Sport Inspired channels across all three regions, ensuring the right products reach the right accounts and channels — with the right tiering and timing. Your goal is to reinforce our premium brand vision while driving sales and profitability. The role is reporting to the Director of Global Apparel & Accessories Merchandising.

You will define the global assortment across Apparel and Accessories, always connected to Footwear, and bring our brand strategy to life. By working closely with Product Strategy, Global Marketing, Regional Merchandising and Sales teams, you'll capture customer insights and use advanced data analytics to inform feedback, analysis, and assortment decisions that shape both current ranges and future strategy.

Your mission

• Create tailored assortments that meet the specific consumer/community needs of each sport inspired channel. Ensure assortments are built around strong head-to-toe product stories tied to key campaigns. Align product assortments with seasonal campaigns, ensuring that each collection reflects the brand's premium positioning
• Work with Regional Merchandising leads in EMEA, Americas and APAC to ensure that global assortments are fine-tuned to meet local market needs without diluting the brand's core premium identity
• Ensure consistent and structured follow-ups of your assortments, commercial focuses and quantified goals that leads to actions for all markets
• Implement regular feedback loops between Global and Regional teams to gather insights on product performance, market trends, and customer preferences
• Utilise and develop tools for analysis to enrich our understanding of the consumer when it comes to our product offering around the globe Drive commercial GTM process for all markets to communicate the strategy, key looks and commercial opportunities throughout the process
• Work closely with our campaign teams to prioritise product pushes/align product launch dates in line with the other business partners
• Work with VM to drive product assortment strategies into our wholesale environments, building inspiring and commercial solutions
• Know the market and the consumer targets, fashion and performance competencies and that of our competitors
• Build seasonal range and assortment plans to inform product strategy of the commercial range needed to hit channel targets
• Coordinate SMU requests and account-specific needs between Sales, Regional Merchandising and Product
• Deliver a strong point of view on commercial key moments, product and colour needs to deliver the channel's seasonal success
• Drive commercial priorities for your channel across functions and regions. Translate them into product briefs, assortments and VM Briefings
• Serve as key stakeholder to consult the product team on the premium active collections from a commercial POV in close collaboration with retail merchandising
• Consult on channel adoption and forecasting in close cooperation with your Global Merchandise Planner

Your story

• You have 7+ years' experience with a minimum of 5 years' experience in a merchandising role within Apparel in a wholesale first business
• You have a strong track record of business results from your previous roles, preferably within Merchandising, Buying, and/or Key Account Management
• You are experienced in developing distribution strategies, whilst keeping consumers, accounts and sales teams front of mind
• You have a strong understanding of Visual Merchandising and the taste level to make inspiring assortments
• You have solid knowledge of Brand and Trade Marketing to ensure an efficient collaboration with Global Marketing Teams
• You have an analytical and data driven mindset with a clear focus on results
• You have strong G-suite experience, including Sheets/Excel and Slides/PPT skills, with a drive to learn new systems
• You have solid leadership experience - working with and influencing cross-functional teams - are able to drive new concepts and are a team player
• You are a strong communicator and presenter in front of diverse internal and external audiences
• You have business proficiency in English

What We Offer
On is a place that is centered around growth and progress. We offer an environment designed to give people the tools to develop holistically – to stay active, to learn, explore and innovate. Our distinctive approach combines a supportive, team-oriented atmosphere, with access to personal self-care for both physical and mental well-being, so each person is led by purpose.

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