Overview
Senior Global Merchant – Women’s Jobs in Vancouver, Canada at lululemon
Title: Senior Global Merchant – Women’s
Company: lululemon
Location: Vancouver, Canada
Category:
Position: lululemon Senior Global Merchant – Women’s
Job Details
Description & Requirements
who we are
lululemon is an innovative performance apparel company for yoga, running, training, and other athletic pursuits. Setting the bar in technical fabrics and functional design, we create transformational products and experiences that support people in moving, growing, connecting, and being well. We owe our success to our innovative product, emphasis on stores, commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we make in every community we’re in.
As a company, we focus on creating positive change to build a healthier, thriving future. In particular, that includes creating an equitable, inclusive and growth-focused environment for our people.
about this team
The Merchandising team creates and executes transformative global product strategies that
ensure we have the right assortment in the right place at the right time to fulfill our guests’ unmet
needs to deepen our guest relationships, grow our brand and deliver on our long-term enterprise
goals. We possess deep awareness and intuition of global marketplace dynamics and guest needs
and use this knowledge to identify opportunities to maximize guest demand.
a day in the life
The Senior Global Merchant is responsible for and brings seasoned expertise in creating,
curating and bringing product strategies and the global product assortment to life through
seasonal line plans based on guest insights that reflect global and regional market needs. The
Senior Global Merchant has a deep understanding of the Global lululemon consumer and is
consumer obsessed. The Senior Global Merchant partners with the Product team to deliver
products with commercial viability across the global line delivered at GLF to drive seasonal
buying, brand and marketing activities. Guided by strategy with minimal supervision, the Senior
Global Merchant collaborates with partners across the business to ensure product needs
associated with critical enterprise priorities are identified, planned for and executed against and
ensure brand consistency and regional relevance to maximize profitability and sales across
product classes, key items and channels. The Senior Global Merchant is an expert in their
category, product line or class and has significant impact and influence on the financial
performance of their business.
The Senior Global Merchant possesses deep Global Merchandising expertise and experience and
is recognized as a subject matter expert and mentor on the team. The Senior Merchant is
responsible for coaching, mentoring and guiding junior team members to develop their skills to
build functional expertise across the team.
core responsibilities
• Leads the successful creation, execution and maintenance of a line plan for assigned
product categories that contribute to the financial success of the company
• Deliver profitable assortments driving IMU and cost goals needed to meet and exceed
targets
• Develops Global pricing product architecture
• Owns the pre-season planning process, breaking down roadmap stories into seasonal line
plan and ensuring regional territory category needs are integrated, through ongoing
partnerships with Regional teams
• Ensure briefs are met throughout product creation process, from line plan through to
regional handover
• Brief colour flow for global assortment to ensure clear consistent profitable storytelling
• Proactively gathers, analyzes and drives insight from the competitive landscape,
global/regional teams and cross functional partners across all channels for pre-season
planning and hindsights
• Manage and create key franchises and product lifecycle for all styles in assigned product
categories including introduction, build and retirement
• Provides leadership and functional excellence for their respective activity/category
merchandising and design partners to meet key Merchandising Go-To-Market deadlines
• Communicate category assortment to all stakeholders to drive consistent Merchandising
messages globally
• Bring global storytelling to life in partnership with Brand and Marketing teams
• Builds the architecture of the assortment in collaboration with Design and Product
Development team
• Review, validate and sign-off on sketches…