Product Manager, Outdoor
Adidas
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See open jobs at Adidas.See open jobs similar to "Product Manager, Outdoor" Imagine.Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
- Bring consumer, outdoor and sports insights into your concepts
- Execute the category direction
- Work with all creation functions to deliver product concepts
- Create ranges within the category that are GCA & APAC consumer, market and trend relevant with a strong commercial point of view
Key Responsibilities:
- Proactively manage range direction in alignment with the Category Senior Director
- Propose a clear strategy for the range and how to move it on
- Show full understanding of the product creation process whilst managing all tasks within the given time frames, with special attention to outdoor
- Work within cross-functional team and with interlinked departments to enable an efficient product creation process with an optimum product outcome
- Actively analyse business, draw conclusions and propose action steps
- Strong knowledge of product information systems and the interlinking functions – clarity on respective timelines
- Excellent level of product expertise to create industry leading products
- Be considered as a range expert by markets and retailers
- Prepare and present your ranges and business related topics - with respective audience in mind - by using relevant structure and content
- Actively provide input for setting the CtC (Concept to Consumer) direction and implement it into relevant ranges in partnership with both local and global CtC counterparts
- Strong ability to work in team and independently on projects and follow up on project development
Key Relationships:
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Maintain a strong relationship and ensure constant dialogue/feedback with
- business unit and across other BU´s
- cross-functional team ( Design, Fashion Operations ,CtC, Materials, Costing, Planning)
- markets and relevant key retailers
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:
- Communicate information clear and effectively – negotiate skilfully
- Cooperate well and effectively to maintain and develop trustful relationships
- Work independently as well as part of a team
- Plan and prioritize daily working time effectively with the ability to work in a fast paced environment
- Knowledge of respective product category
- Strong analytical skills, be solution driven and result oriented
- Ability to travel
- Actively interested in lifestyle and/or fashion
- Passion for sport
Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:
- College degree, preferably in marketing/business /textile/fashion
- Minimum of 5-6 years Product Marketing / Merchandising / Category or Brand Management experience with APP, FTW or ACC background
- Experience in trade, vertical retail business model or sales is helpful
- Fluent in English
- PC skills (MS Office programs, especially PowerPoint and Excel)
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