Role Mission
To ensure profitable company growth by improving the efficiency of managing cost of goods sold, inventory, orders, and cash flows across the entire product creation and sales chain.
Key Responsibilities
- Act as a liaison between designers, production experts, quality experts, material sourcing, technical development, marketing, and retail.
- Provide the Product Development Manager (together with the Product Director and Creative Director) with all necessary data, risk assessment analysis, and proposals for effective decision-making on assortment, design, and production issues to ensure the commercial success of the collection and category development.
- Be fully responsible for the final product: sales, profitability, quality, brand compliance, and customer expectations.
- Formulate requirements for working with partners: selection criteria, KPIs, long-term cooperation conditions.
- Assign tasks to production experts for continuous analysis of new factories, audit of current partners, collection of data on quality and lead times, initiate and approve necessary changes to ensure product quality and adherence to the production calendar.
- Control the implementation of agreed-upon improvements: cost reduction, quality enhancement, logistics optimization.
- Be responsible for the final product margin and partner terms (prices, payment terms, volumes), even if operational negotiations are conducted by experts.
- Manage the achievement of key performance metrics.
- Formulate and populate the assortment matrix based on analysis of sales, profitability, demand, and the competitive environment.
- Manage budget execution, plans for quantity, sales, margin, and cost of goods sold.
- Ensure timely product release and availability in stores and online.
- Weekly analyze sales, inventory levels, STR, CSI, OTIF, IGM.
- Conduct competitor and trend analysis.
- Based on data, initiate changes in assortment, pricing, partner collaboration to ensure achievement of performance metrics.
- Lead continuous improvements and automation of analysis and other operations to minimize manual management.
- Monitor customer feedback (through quality experts), compile product ratings, initiate deeper research (surveys/interviews) if necessary.
- Together with production experts and designers, implement improvements in quality and consumer properties to achieve performance metrics.
- Organize synchronization between departments.
- Conduct product presentations for retail and online channels, discuss promotion concepts with marketing and sales.
- Participate in retro-fittings and other regular strategic meetings and projects for production cycle reduction, sales increase, assortment management, etc., to achieve performance metrics.
What we are looking for in a candidate
- At least 2 years of experience in fashion companies (apparel category) as a Product Manager, Category Manager, Commercial Analyst, or Sales Expert with responsibility for sales, profitability, pricing, and promotions.
- Advanced Excel skills, ability to analyze commercial indicators, identify growth opportunities, and implement solutions.
- Experience managing an assortment matrix as a project and proficiency in BI tools.
- English language proficiency at B2 level (Upper Intermediate).
- Higher education and a drive for continuous development, attention to detail, and results orientation.
- Advantageous: Experience working with production sites in China, Turkey, and other countries; knowledge of PLM systems (Centric, Lectra); Chinese language proficiency at B1 level (Intermediate); and use of AI tools for analytics and automation.
What we offer
- An open culture and a team that helps you grow.
- A strong, ambitious product.
- Official employment, competitive salary, and performance-based bonuses.
- Voluntary medical insurance policy with dental coverage.
- Training at the 12 STOREEZ academy, discounts from partners Skillbox, Skyeng.
- Discounts on the brand's products and a birthday certificate.
- Hybrid work schedule: option to work partially from home.
- Comfortable environment: cozy meeting rooms, fruits and aromatic coffee in the kitchen, "Friday is dog day," and other pleasant perks.
- Loft-style office at Trekhgornaya Manufactura: 10-15 minutes' walk from metro stations Ulitsa 1905 goda, Vystavochnaya, Krasnopresnenskaya. From July, a new office located in the Skolkovo Innovation Center.
What are the stages of the hiring process
- We will contact you to schedule an interview.
- During the HR interview, we will discuss your goals and experience.
- During the interview with your future manager, we will discuss tasks and priorities and explain how the workflow is organized.
- We will ask you to complete a test assignment.
- During the interview with the hiring ambassador, we will assess our value alignment.
- We will request references from your previous employers.
- We will send you an offer.