Product Manager FTW Future City - Shanghai, 中国 - adidas

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    全职
    描述

    Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

    • Bring consumer and sport insights into your concepts
    • Execute the category direction
    • Work with all creation functions to deliver product concepts
    • Create ranges within the category from both an image and commercial point of view

    Key Responsibilities:

    • Proactively manage range direction
    • 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 speed to market
    • 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
    • Good level of product expertise to create industry leading products
    • Actively execute spot buying existing fabrics or already developed/existing styles at supplier)
    • 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 CtC counterparts
    • Work independently on projects and follow up on project development

    Key Relationships:

    • 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:

    • Transport information clear and effectively – negotiate skillfully
    • 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 years Product Marketing 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)