Senior Merchandiser, Japan (Vans)

Principal Accountabilities:

Under broad supervision:

• Drives marketplace strategies across wholesale and DTC, focusing on curated assortments and demand-driving features.

• Guardian of the global brand position from a product perspective.

• Responsibilities include partnering with regional planning to meet financial goals, analyzing market capacity and consumer trends, collaborating with regional market teams to bring regional campaigns to life & with global merch to maintain global brand position at the regional level

Knowledge and Skill Requirement:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration or related field

• Equivalent years of experience in a substantially similar industry may be considered in lieu of a degree to be determined by the nature of the specific job and the hiring manager’s criteria

• Three to five years of related experience preferred

• Strong written and oral communication skills

Knowledge & Application:

• Understands and applies the principles and practices in a recognized professional field requiring extensive academic preparation

• Likely to be newly professionally qualified in a specific field, or will have extensive experience in complex technical area

• Determines a course of action based on guidelines and modifies processes and methods as required

• Generally requires knowledge of company policies, practices, and procedures

Problem Solving:

• Resolves issues which are often varied and non-routine

• Uses previous experience to identify most appropriate option or improve existing approaches

• Problems likely to require clarification

• Undertakes analysis and investigation to solve differing, but related, problems

• Work is performed under general guidance and direction

• May require the initiation of contacts to resolve and discuss mutual problems or collaboration on procedures or transactions

Interaction:

• Conveys information to occasionally divergent audiences that may require some persuasion

• In some instances will need to convey information to audiences not knowledgeable of the subject matter

• Requires objective review of difficult work problems, obtaining cooperation or approval

• Understands and communicates fairly complex information within the specialization or recognized body of formal knowledge

Impact:

• Impact is generally limited to short-term team performance, occasionally on medium-term goals

• Supports the achievement of goals through own personal effort

• Responsible for planning own work, assessing own progress, and adjusting efforts to meet goals

• Beginning to have more of a contributory impact on team performance

Accountability:

• Accountable for meeting own targets which impact the immediate work area

• Accountable for own targets which will typically be definable but not always financially measurable

• May help coordinate the work of junior members of the team

• Accountable for managing own impact on cost and profitability of the business

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