Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- Lead and deliver channel-specific assortment plans for multi wholesale accounts, ensuring alignment with seasonal strategies, sell-in targets, and segmentation guidelines. Translate BU-led direction into tailored, channel-relevant assortments that support both brand positioning and commercial performance.
Key Responsibilities:
- Build channel/account-specific assortment plans across footwear, apparel, and accessories, based on market RA, segmentation guidelines, and channel positioning.
- Drive category and product differentiation across key wholesale partners.
- Ensure alignment between BU seasonal direction and each account¡¯s unique business model and consumer profile.
- Support segmentation logic and SMU (Special Make-Up) strategies in collaboration with sales and BU teams.
- Deliver assortment plan decks and assortment packages in line with GTM milestones.
- Partner with Sales to gather account feedback and apply insights into iterative assortment development.
- Ensure all assortments reflect regionalization needs and are supported with brand communication inputs.
- Manage performance tracking through take rate, compliance, and sell-through KPIs per account.
- Participate in pre-line, trade meeting, and commercial meetings to represent the multi-account AP voice.
- Monitor competitive landscape (including pricing/positioning) at channel and store format level.
- Provide Brand and BU teams with regular insight reports on channel sell-out and assortment effectiveness.
- Support sell-out recovery and overstock mitigation strategies in-season.
KPI¡¯s:
- Efficiency of assortment width vs. productivity
- Category NS, Net Margin, Growth
- Sell-in/Sell-out/Sell-thru
- Compliance & take ratio target achievement for assortments
- Market share
- Segmentation execution accuracy (e.g., SMU/non-SMU, inline split)
- Efficiency KPIs
Key Relationships:
- Market BU/Category teams
- Market MOPS
- Market P&I
- Market Sales (Multi Account Managers, Sales Planning)
- Global Key account teams
- Global GTM teams
- Global BUs
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Strong understanding of wholesale business dynamics and account-specific needs
- Solid knowledge of product lifecycle, category roles, and differentiation logic across footwear, apparel, and accessories
- Genuine interest in products and product stories, with ability to connect BU intent to channel relevance
- Ability to interpret sell-out data and translate into actionable product and assortment recommendations
- Proactive in tracking consumer, market, and competitor trends by category and franchise
- Strong communication and stakeholder management across sales, marketing, and ops functions
- Fluent in both English and Korean
- Knowledge of Korean fashion/sportswear market and local wholesale landscape
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- 2-3 years of experience in product management(merchandising), sales/retail required.
- Exposure to other marketing disciplines preferable, e.g. retail / ecom / merchandising, or sales channel experience
- University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
- Sporting goods industry experience preferred.
- Fluent both in English and Korean