Merchandiser, South Asia

Position

Louis Vuitton Singapore has an opportunity within our Merchandising department to be part of the Women's Leathergoods team.

• Manage and drive the Women’s Leathergoods category 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.

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. Fashion background preferred; luxury experience 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.