Assistant Manager - Buying & Merchandising - Category Footwear

About the role

The role will work closely with the Buying & Merchandising, Product Development, Planning, Marketing, Retail Operations, Visual Merchandising, and other cross-functional teams to ensure the right product, assortment, quantity, timing, pricing and channel mix are delivered in line with business objectives.

What you'll do

• Work closely with the Buying & Merchandising, Product Development, Planning, Marketing, Retail Operations, Visual Merchandising
• Responsible for monitoring category and product performance at the store, region, channel, gender, style and size level
• Support the development of seasonal footwear ranges based on business objectives, historical performance, market trends and consumer requirements
• Analyse previous-season performance to identify winning styles, underperforming products, gaps and opportunities for the upcoming season
• Support assortment planning across categories, gender, product types, price points, technologies, franchises and channels

What you need

• 4–7 yrs of experience
• Visual merchandising
• Product knowledge
• Learning and development
• Performance management
• PowerPoint
• Sales
• Diploma

Good to have

• ERP
• Product strategy
• MIS reporting
• Go-to-market