Role Purpose:

Focus on consumer, delivering curated, productive and channel assortments. Leading the geo products adoption for Asia consumers. Deliver on merchandising strategy and distinctive FTW assortment direction for business team. Drives the one team philosophy through partnership with X-functional teams and global merchandising teams.

Job Responsibility:

• Develop Asia Kids annual/seasonal merchandising plans to support a distinctive assortment with speed and responsiveness
• Adopt and assort for Asia marketplace and digital marketplace,  working with Planning on the seasonal OTB buy plan
• Partner with Marketplace team to provide integrated product insights to Global Merch team to fulfil marketplace product needs.
• Be a team player.  Develop strong relationships with diverse team to ensure alignment and collaboration
• Maintaining files and data such as product VMLPS, merchandising tools, and product information systems
• Support team by retail excellence project pilot fleets assortment hindsight, local for local product briefing
• Ad Hoc reporting and analysis to support decision making

Key accountabilities:

• Deliver and participate in the key corporate gates and Consumer facing deliverables
• Ensure assortments support financial targets in partnership with Planning and Analytics
• Read and react to in season analytics and identify opportunities to adapt current business and inform future assortments, merchandising strategies and strategic initiatives
• Partner with Global and RPC team to get after product opportunities to serve Asia consumer needs. 

Functional Competencies

• Demonstrate Brand Passion
• Lead and Influence Others
• Communicate Effectively
• Drive Business Results
• Continuously Grow and Develop with teamwork and Diversity

Enterprise/Leadership expectations:

• Be Open and Curious
• Think Like a Consumer
• Visionary and Strategic
• Be Resilient
• Embrace Change
• Engage Teams

Key Partnerships:

• Global Consumer Merchants and Product Merchants
• Asia Marketplace Merch / sales
• Asia Merchandising Planning