Director, Global Merchandising – Women’s Lifestyle –

Description & Requirements

who we’re

lululemon is an progressive efficiency attire firm for yoga, working, coaching, and different athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical materials and useful design, we create transformational merchandise and experiences that assist folks in transferring, rising, connecting, and being nicely. We owe our success to our progressive product, emphasis on shops, dedication to our folks, and the unbelievable connections we make in each neighborhood we’re in. As an organization, we concentrate on creating optimistic change to construct a more healthy, thriving future. In specific, that features creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused setting for our folks.

about this staff

The Merchandising staff creates and executes transformative international product methods that guarantee now we have the precise assortment in the precise place on the proper time, and on the proper worth, to serve international friends, develop our model and ship on our long-term enterprise targets. We possess deep consciousness and instinct of world market dynamics and visitor wants and use this information to determine alternatives to maximise demand.

a day within the life

The Global Merchandise Director is a seasoned product and market strategist who works with the SVP Merchandising to construct the worldwide Women’s methods that develop our model and ship on our long-term enterprise targets, after which guarantee their staff is supported to hold it by way of the Go-To-Market course of and duties. This individual usually works on exception-based alternatives and points within the enterprise to resolve for the enterprise and the operate and is a consultant of Women’s merchandising on crucial subjects.  This requires that the Global Merchandise Director leads the staff by way of the creation, administration and execution of the worldwide product line plan (for his or her classes) by successfully main their groups in collaborative work and partnerships with the Regional Merchandising, Design, Brand/Marketing and Guest Experience groups.  This individual is chargeable for the event and training of the managers to ship product wants that mirror model consistency and regional relevance to maximise profitability and gross sales throughout product lessons, key objects and channels.

• Responsible for overseeing a staff of Global Merchandising Managers who report on to the Director. They encourage, coach and information their staff members to develop their expertise and ship on enterprise priorities
  • Design and handle the worldwide merchandising technique for all product classes
• Responsible for the profitable execution of a line plan of assigned product classes, that ship our design imaginative and prescient along with gross sales, gross margin and gross sales productiveness targets throughout all channels
• Responsible for the profitable execution to drive the supply of our omni-channel product assortment and digital development methods
• Responsible for the product lifecycle and go to market means of assigned product classes by way of efficient teamwork and partnership with all Product groups
• Lead the seasonal line planning course of and magnificence rely in partnership with Design, Development and Planning for seasonal alignment
• Drive pricing structure for the assigned product classes, collaborating with different Directors of Merchandising and Design to make sure consistency throughout the model
• Collaborate carefully with worldwide shopping for groups to make sure that regional wants are integrated into the worldwide line plan and international roadmap involves life in all areas
• Partner with all cross useful groups outdoors of Product together with Global Brand & Community, Strategy, Operations Excellence, and Supply Chain groups to make sure the design imaginative and prescient is delivered to our friends
• Inform Design staff (at key inside milestones) with strategic perception and determine further product assortment or enterprise development alternatives

{qualifications}

• 10+ years of expertise in a service provider/purchaser position, with 5 years administration expertise, together with 1-2 years as a Director or Senior Manager
  • Understanding and expertise in working for a Global Brand 
• Vertical retail expertise required. Omni channel expertise extremely fascinating
  • Aware of macro life-style and trend tendencies and the way this pertains to the lively and wellness trade
• Strong understanding of world market, main shifts in development and exercise
• Mastery of retail arithmetic and Open to Buy, and skill to interpret and apply monetary insights on present enterprise efficiency and leverage insights to information and inform future vary plans
• Proven capability to work with and lead a cross useful staff, and Ability to guide and affect artistic (and all) companions
• Excellent communication expertise – interpersonal, written and verbal
• Proven capability to handle a number of tasks concurrently; Self-starter strategy to work, with an eagerness to persistently meet and exceed targets and tackle extra accountability
• Entrepreneurship – a capability to make choices and take calculated dangers
• Focus on creating a rare visitor expertise, organizational and time administration expertise
• Strong information of MS Office (Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Outlook) and dealing information of Adobe Illustrator
• Willingness to journey (home and worldwide) 

prerequisites

• Acknowledge the presence of alternative in each second and take private accountability to your life
• Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and constantly innovate to realize nice outcomes
• Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the area for others to do the identical
• Lead with braveness, figuring out the potential of greatness is larger than the concern of failure
• Foster connection by placing folks first and constructing trusting relationships
• Integrate enjoyable and pleasure as a manner of being and dealing, aka doesn’t take your self too significantly

further notes 

Immigration assist is probably accessible for this position.

compensation and advantages package deal 

lululemon’s compensation choices are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that acknowledges distinctive particular person and staff efficiency. The typical hiring vary for this place is from $201,000 – 263,800 CAD yearly; the bottom pay supplied is predicated on market location and will differ relying on job-related information, expertise, expertise, and inside fairness. As a part of our whole rewards providing, everlasting workers on this place could also be eligible for our aggressive annual bonus program and fairness choices, topic to program eligibility necessities.  

At lululemon, investing in our folks is a high precedence. We imagine that when life works, work works. We attempt to be the place the place inclusive leaders come to develop and allow all to be nicely. Recognizing our groups for his or her efficiency and dedication, different parts of our whole rewards choices embrace assist of profession growth, wellbeing, and private development:

• Extended well being and dental advantages, and psychological well being plans 
• Paid day without work 
• Savings and retirement plan matching 
• Generous worker low cost 
• Fitness & yoga lessons 
• Parenthood top-up 
• Extensive catalog of growth course choices 
• People networks, mentorship applications, and management collection (to call a number of) 

Note: The incentive applications, advantages, and perks have sure eligibility necessities. The Company reserves the precise to change these incentive applications, advantages, and perks in entire or partially at any time with out advance discover.

 
office association
 

Hybrid 

In-person collaboration and connection is vital to our tradition. Work is carried out onsite, minimal 4 days per week.

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