Merchandiser for Footwear

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Job details

Company overview

We are a Swiss-founded company providing high-quality outdoor products. Prioritizing safety and innovation, we offer a wide range of apparel, footwear, backpacks, climbing gear, and avalanche safety equipment. Our products are available globally, with flagship stores in major Japanese cities and distribution through retailers nationwide. We consistently deliver products that combine sophisticated design with high functionality.

Responsibilities

Main responsibilities:

• Create and build up Japan Footwear and Hardware (Packs and Bags)
• Merchandising strategy, JP Whole product line and DTC channel product line.
• DTC channel Footwear and Hardware products Seasonal buying support.
• Create initial products (Footwear and Hardware) marketing plan.
• Create Footwear and Hardware sales forecast.
• JP Whole Footwear and Hardware products Seasonal buying according to demand
• forecast.
• Seasonal JP GTM execution support.
• Seasonal SMU plan execution support.
• Analyzing market trend and expect future market opportunities.
• Analyzing product performance in DTC channels and B2B channels by each
• season.
• Good knowledge of comapny products and competitor products.

Requirements

Minimum requirements:

• A person with one or more of the following experiences:
  • Over 5 years’ experiences as Footwear or Hardware (Packs and Bags)
  • merchandiser or product development management in Outdoor or Sports
  • industries.
  • Over 5 years' experience as Retail merchandiser in Outdoor or Sports industries.
  • Over 8 years’ experience as Whole sales representative in outdoor or sports
  • industries.
• Knowledge of outdoor or sports industries, especially Footwear and Hardware (Packs
• and Bags).
• Enough experience to use “Microsoft Office” (Excel, Power Point, Word) on daily
• tasks.
• Fluent level communication in both of English and Japanese

Preferred qualifications:

• Good Knowledges of Outdoor or sports industries
• Purpose Oriented
• Open minded
• Entrepreneurship
• One Team
• Straight Forward
• Professional attitude
• Proven self-starter

Salary

6 - 7 million yen

Location

Tokyo