Merchandise Manager

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Job Position Manager - Regional Product development

QAP Link (Quick Apply)- https://foeurope.my.salesforce-sites.com/jobboard/JobRegisterJobId=a1hKA000000094hYAA

Industry Type Retails / Luxury Brand / Jewlery

Job Location Chennai

No. of position 1

Qualification Graduate / Post Graduate

Salary 34 LPA

Paragraph about the company -Our client is a leading Indian consumer goods company headquartered in Bengaluru. It is a subsidiary of the Tata Group and operates in various sectors including watches, jewelry, eyewear, and accessories. The company is the fifth largest integrated own-brand watch manufacturer in the world.

About the candidate An Ideal candidate should have an MBA in HR with 10-20 years in Sourcing or Product development or Design or Merchandising functions with National or Regional jewelry brands. Prior work in the jewelry sector and a thorough understanding of regional nuances is a must

Key Competencies

1. Mapping the current universe of regional products.
2. Range-planning for regional products: Identifying the gaps in the current universe, based on customer, community understanding as well as competitive indexing. Accordingly, planning for product introduction for ensuring that these product gaps are filled.
3. Collaborating with the regional vendors to ensure the development of products to fill the product gap happens on a regular & timely basis.
4. Wherever required, work closely with the Responsible Sourcing teams for the timely onboarding on relevant and capable vendor partners.
5. Create the new collection brief for the regional collection with clear deliverables on the product category, cluster, net weight & LC.
6. Liaison with the NPD team, Design team to ensure the concept presentation as per the timeline.
7. Approve/ select the designs created by the design studio.
8. Approve the final PDIS release; Coordinate with NPI team for code creation.
9. Coordinate with the NPD & NPIM team to ensure that the first set of proto are received as per the design approved if not ensuring that the feedback is given for correction.
10. Monthly visits to regional competition to benchmark the regional products offered, weight bands, making charge, etc.
11. Manage the entire product lifecycle from inception to product retiral for regional products.
12. Achieve Category Top Line Targets as per planned Cat-PB sales shares of regional products.