Head of Product management Womenswear/Mеnswear

Responsibilities:

• Management and coordination of the Department’s activities aimed at development of commercially sound, rationally structured, cohesive and balanced collections:
• Input into the development of the overall concept and working closely with the Design Director: collection structure for season, development of the themes, colour palettes and capsule collections; translating this into the Assortment Plan together with the Commercial Director;
• Responsible for achieving critical path of Product Development Calendars;
• Coordination of production and collection testing (Own Production) Organization and coordination of orders to External Production;
• Sourcing of suppliers and order placement to suppliers globally;
• Control and monitoring of order execution and deliveries of the product to the warehouse;
• Information support of the logistics process;
• Responsible for delivering the commercial parameters set for the Department – sales, intake margin, final margin;
• Analysis of TVOE collection performance, amendments of collection with regard to performance indicators;
• Responsible for knowing the TVOE customer and the Russian value fashion marketplace. Continuous benchmarking of key competitors to ensure that TVOE offers the best value in the market;
• Participation in development of TVOE pricing policy;
• Weekly responsibility, together with Merchandise Planning, for sales analysis and markdown proposal;
• Coordination of interactions with own production units;
• Development of Department’s budgets and budgets for seasonal procurement split by categories control over implementation of the budget by the Product Team;
• Interactions with all suppliers/production units. Timely delivering to suppliers/production units information about new processes, future seasonal collection, as well as timely setting of the tasks and subsequent control over their implementation;
• Processing of analytical data. Regular monitoring of analytical data on overall commercial success of the collection for subsequent improvements of collections’ structure;
• Together with HR, responsible for the recruitment and development of the Department team and for dealing with problem situations;
• Responsible for allocation of tasks to Department team and balancing workload in order to deliver all tasks in line with PD calendars;

Requirements:

• Higher education in economics, design, production technology, management, marketing;
• High level of product knowledge: design, production, pricing;
• Developed negotiation skills;
• Experience in fashion companies in a similar position/management experience from 5 years!
• Experience working with women's clothing;
• Experience in establishing business relationships with suppliers, manufacturers, factories;
• A good level of English is required;
• Skills of an experienced manager, capable of completing tasks in a timely manner and multitasking;
• Advanced PC user, high level of Excel knowledge (functions/formulas/pivot tables);
• Advanced computing and analytical skills;
• Ability to work in a team and communicate your views on trends and commercial expectations;

We are offer:

• Salary will be discussed at the interview;
• Registration according to the Labor Code of the Russian Federation;
• Official salary;
• Schedule: 5/2, 09:00-18:00 or from 10:00 - 19:00;
• Discounts on company products;
• Place of work: metro Skhodnenskaya, BC "Kaleidoscope" (walking distance from the metro);