Become part of the Converse Team
Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.
Role Purpose:
Focus on consumer, delivering curated, productive and channel assortments. Leading the geo products adoption for Asia consumers. Deliver on merchandising strategy and distinctive FTW assortment direction for business team. Drives the one team philosophy through partnership with X-functional teams and global merchandising teams.
Job Responsibility:
- Develop Asia Kids annual/seasonal merchandising plans to support a distinctive assortment with speed and responsiveness
- Adopt and assort for Asia marketplace and digital marketplace, working with Planning on the seasonal OTB buy plan
- Partner with Marketplace team to provide integrated product insights to Global Merch team to fulfil marketplace product needs.
- Be a team player. Develop strong relationships with diverse team to ensure alignment and collaboration
- Maintaining files and data such as product VMLPS, merchandising tools, and product information systems
- Support team by retail excellence project pilot fleets assortment hindsight, local for local product briefing
- Ad Hoc reporting and analysis to support decision making
Key accountabilities:
- Deliver and participate in the key corporate gates and Consumer facing deliverables
- Ensure assortments support financial targets in partnership with Planning and Analytics
- Read and react to in season analytics and identify opportunities to adapt current business and inform future assortments, merchandising strategies and strategic initiatives
- Partner with Global and RPC team to get after product opportunities to serve Asia consumer needs.
Functional Competencies
- Demonstrate Brand Passion
- Lead and Influence Others
- Communicate Effectively
- Drive Business Results
- Continuously Grow and Develop with teamwork and Diversity
Enterprise/Leadership expectations:
- Be Open and Curious
- Think Like a Consumer
- Visionary and Strategic
- Be Resilient
- Embrace Change
- Engage Teams
Key Partnerships:
- Global Consumer Merchants and Product Merchants
- Asia Marketplace Merch / sales
- Asia Merchandising Planning
HOW WE HIRE
1. Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
2. Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
3. Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
