To be considered for this role, the applicant must come from the same financial function as the role.

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

Owner of assortment planning for the wholesale Alliance Account with CTC RA, CTC category planning team, OCM/VM team and Category sales and Account sales to populate and deploy assortment with merchandising strategy and Key Brand concepts.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support Senior Manager, Assortment planning and combine/validate category range plans from CTC category planning, and finalize into a holistic, full store format assortment plan (width only)
• Represent specific category(ies) for category led tasks and manage multiple accounts range to hand over to each account representative assortment planner.
• Sense-check, feedback and validate the final output of each store format against brand and commercial objectives (product type, launch flow, marketing calendar, mandatory range, retail space, consumer journey, etc.) with Senior Manager, Assortment Planning

• Output all merchandising boards for all store formats
• Handover assortment plans to Visual Merchandising Team for output of VM renderings
• Handover assortment plans to the Account teams for sell-in planning
• Deliver assortment plan presentations at Seasonal Sales Summit and provide material and support for Sales Training, Accounts Pre-lines, Tenjikai
• Sample & AP Room merchandising together with VM for product walkthrough for the Accounts Pre-lines and Tenjikai

• SI & ST tracking & analysis to reflect future season's assortment.

Key Relationships:

• Other departments in CTC
• Brand Activation (in particular Visual Merchandising and Omni Channel Marketing)
• Account sales and Category sales
• APAC BU

• AA Customer

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Marketing, merchandising and/or retail experience, with a distinct track record of success
• Strong presentation/communications skills

• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Solid merchandising experience with retail end in mind
• Advanced user of MS Office suite of products
• Wholesale or Retail experience preferred.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree in Business or equivalent professional experience, ideally in Sales and/or Marketing
• 3 -5 Years relevant working experience preferred
• Understanding English
• Fluent in local language (if applicable) preferred

• Passion for sports