About The Job
Louis Vuitton Singapore has opportunities within our Merchandising team, overseeing Men's Shoes and Women's Ready to Wear and Shoes categories.
- Manage and drive the selected category's business in South Asia.
- Create commercially balanced assortments in line with brand aspirations and strategies.
- Identify category growth opportunities as well as risks to the business.
- Deliver reliable sales analysis, drawing focused insights that lead to action plans.
- 360 commercial management of the category.
We welcome candidates with relevant exposure to all the above-mentioned categories.
More details will be shared with the shortlisted candidates.
Job responsibilities
General
- Support the manager as the category lead.
- Work collaboratively with other team members and cross-functional partners.
- Partner with Central Teams as the zone category representative.
Sales Reporting & Analytics
- Prepare daily/weekly/monthly sales and sell through reports.
- Proactively initiate ad hoc analysis to explore new opportunities and business concerns.
- Provide deep dive and qualitative feedback for Zone & Central.
Assortment Management
- Attend 4 buying sessions a year.
- Create assortments considering brand strategies and market specificities, while delivering sales targets.
- In-season management, re-assorting stores based on performance, new opportunities, activations, etc.
Training & Collection Launch Preparation
- Partner with other categories on 360 Transversal Launches.
- Proactively initiate ad hoc analysis to explore new opportunities and business concerns.
- Provide deep dive and qualitative feedback for Zone & Central.
Cross-Functional Collaboration
- Work collaboratively with cross-functional partners (i.e. Retail, Learning & Development, Digital, Visual Merchandising, Communications, Client Development, etc.) to achieve 360 category objectives.
- Partnership with Country Merchandisers and Retail Teams to drive sales and understand market needs.
- Be the bridge between the South Asia zone (each country / store) and Paris team.
Supply Chain
- Partner closely with Supply Chain Team to ensure the right stock, at the right stores, in the right quantities.
- Work collaboratively on in-season sales forecasts and during buying sessions.
- Share category strategies to ensure alignment in stock management.
Retail
- Close communication with stores to understand product feedback and opportunities, as well as clients.
- Provide Retail Teams with tools and information to achieve sales targets.
- Support special events and activations.
Market & Competition Update
- Understand market trends and competitor strategies for market context and to feedback to Central team.
- Provide market feedback, product needs and opportunities to Central team for collection creation.
- Apply insights from market analysis to category action plans.
Profile
- Minimum 5 years of relevant work experience. Luxury experiences will be an asset.
- Strong quantitative and qualitative analytical skills along with a commercial mindset.
- Ability to draw meaningful insights from analysis and to clearly share findings and initiate actions.
- High proficiency in MS office, particularly in Excel and PowerPoint.
- Good interpersonal and communication skills.
- Results driven with a genuine passion for the product category.
- Highly adaptable, agile and comfortable with ambiguity.
- Organized, structured and action oriented.
- Genuine curiosity, proactiveness, and a team player in a fast-paced environment.
Reference LVM30946
