Description
Job Responsibilities
Collection Strategy & Framing
• Analyse market trends, competitive landscape and consumer behaviour to identify opportunities and gaps.
• Support the definition of key themes, product priorities, and strategy per segment and client profile.
• Assist in building and editing the collection architecture, ensuring a balanced offer by product style, function, price.
Product Development Support
• Develop the Collection Brief based on market insights and seasonal trends, to communicate product needs to Design teams.
• Collaborate closely with designers, providing insights and feedback to ensure products align with collection objectives.
• Monitor product development progress, ensuring adherence to timelines, specifications, and price targets.
Assortment Building & Collection Sizing
• Collaborate with the Retail Merchandising team to analyse historical performance data, supporting collection editing and sizing decisions. Participate in benchmarks identification, potential cannibalization and growth opportunities.
• Participate in discussions on carry-over and end-of-life strategies to ensure a balanced and commercially relevant assortment.
Showroom Preparation & Support
• Support the creation of all seasonal materials (Collection Book, Buyer’s guide, strategic highlights)
• Assist with showroom setup and consolidate buyer feedback to effectively communicate insights to the design teams
• Participate to Order reviews in collaboration with the Retail Merchandising team.
Pricing & Market Feedback
- Contribute to analysing pricing positioning versus competition and support pricing proposals with relevant benchmarks.
- Collaborate with Retail Merchandising team to consolidate regional qualitative feedback throughout the season (product requests, missed opportunities, local needs).
Documentation & Cross-functional Collaboration
- Maintain accurate and updated seasonal master documents (product information, launch plans, price and SKU lists).
- Collaborate with transversal teams (VM, Marketing) to ensure smooth communication of seasonal priorities and product storytelling materials.
Ad-hoc Tasks
- Support special merchandising projects such as process optimisation or automation.
- Participate in additional insights work (competitor mappings, trend reviews).
Job Requirements
- Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Fashion Management, or related fields
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills with the ability to connect data, trends and product intuition
- Genuine passion for product, fashion and luxury goods
- Strong attention to detail, organisational skills and a proactive mindset
- Good communication and interpersonal skills with the ability to work across multiple stakeholders
- Excellent command of Excel and PowerPoint; knowledge of Power BI is a plus
- Prior experience in merchandising, buying or product-related roles preferred