Merchandising / Buying
Manager, Go-to-Market
District 1, Vietnam
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Your Talent
Possess a passion for sports with a broad theoretical and practical knowledge in products, industry and local market’s dynamics
Entrepreneurship beyond the written responsibilities, as the position requires borderless partnership across internal and external counterparts to create additional values on top of the existing business
Ability to elaborate PUMA’s excellence to the audience in a manner that they can accept with a sense of participation
Self-motivated and able to work independently with visionary mind to build the team to the next level
Analytical Skills to reflect key findings of result to future planning
Networking and Communication skills to work cross-functionally
Analytical Thinking/Problem Solving. Salesmanship. Creativity & Innovation. Teamwork
Your Mission
Be responsible for planning and managing country product range to deliver the country’s business goals and objectives, based on SEA Category Merchandising team’s strategy and guideline
With the most competitive country level product assortment, he/she will be closely engaged with Wholesale (WS) team to achieve WS business objectives through differentiated product offerings for maximum sell-thru and brand desirability. This will include providing customer centric product information, business analysis and differentiation strategy and tactics
Task 1: Product Assortment - Redefine country business priorities based on the market relevancy and marketing investment, in line with PUMA SEA’s overall growth strategy. Build country range with competitive local pricing, with ensuring to deliver the margin target. Drive differentiation among key customers across all the DC’s. Manage country level GTM timeline
Task 2: Country/Customer Specific Product Development – Plan and execute country/customer specific products in order to gain market share/mind share within key distribution. Exclusive, SMU, collabs and any gap fillers are included
Task 3: Go-to-Market – Proactively engage with WS team and customers to provide advanced level of product information, including customer facing during business review and tradeshow, key customer analysis, competitor overview, sales tools (digital catalog and sell-in decks) and tradeshow set-up Collaborate with the Marketing and VM teams to complete the WS product launch plan then transfer the information to the Sales team to achieve the WS goals (including marketing activity execution and various product activation)
Task 4: Merchandising Operations – Maintain Masterline list with up-to-date data. Review and manage local pricing (inline and non-inline), ISD and order windows, together with necessary functions within the country. Own and execute day-to-day merchandising operations
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PUMA supports over 21,000 employees across 51 countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany.
