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Senior Director, Global Merchandising Men's Close to Body

  • R46400
  • New York, United States
  • Full Time
  • Calvin Klein
  • Non-Retail

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Senior Director, Global Merchandising Men's Close to Body

About Us:

We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.

One of PVH’s greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about our commitments to Inclusion & Diversity here.

The Sr. Director of Global Merchandising is the leader of product merchandising for the global Calvin Klein Underwear Men’s community. They are responsible for the development of all global merchandising dashboards as well as the consolidation of global information to support and build global strategies for the category.

Using strong collaborating and influencing skills, this position serves as the lead conduit between the global design team and the individual regions. With support of analysis from the Global Merchandising team and individual regions, they ensure that product meets specific merchandising objectives, revenue targets and goals.

Primary responsibilities:

  • Responsible for supporting the VP Merchandising for the product vision and global merchandising guidelines for all Calvin Klein Men’s Underwear lines for all design teams to consider the business on their design briefs.
  • Partners with regional merchandise managers in the development & translation of their regional needs as well on the regional results.
  • Responsible for collaborating, influencing, and driving alignment through the different regional teams, to identify one way of translating.
  • Brings customer and market perspective to the design. Thoroughly understands the Brand's target customer by staying on top of attitude and lifestyle trends.
  • Analyzes seasonal business by supervising sales information in order to find opportunities to improve assortments and margins.
  • Leads the technical and merchandising teams; identifies staff strengths and areas for development; recognizes positive performance and results and counsels non-performing employees.
  • Partner with VP Design on all Product & Strategic Initiatives, both long and short term.

Qualifications & experience:

Experience:

  • 8-11 years of product development/merchandising experience; preferably in Retail & Intimate Apparel
  • Proven track record managing a team of 2 or more people in differing functions

Education: Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience in a related field

Skills:

  • Strong problem-solving, interpersonal and organizational skills
  • High level of analytical skills and conceptual creative ability;
  • Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills;
  • Ability and willingness to travel to Europe and Asia 3-4 X per year;
  • Knowledge of fabrics as well as garment construction, including bras;
  • Proven understanding of garment costs and gross margin formulas

Internal & external contacts:

Internal: Global Chief Product Officer, VP Merchandising, Strategy, Global Design Officer, Division Presidents, and Regional Merchandising teams

Supervisory responsibilities:

Direct: Merchandiser, Associate Merchandiser

Indirect: Assistant Merchandiser

BUDGETARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Works directly with Global Chief Product Officer and VP Merchandising on all matters involving the team budget

DECISION MAKING: Ability to make critical decisions regarding product, strategy, and their team, and have the ability to translate decisions into actions.

RESOURCEFULNESS/CREATIVITY: Must be an influencer and keen negotiator with ability to achieve global alignment to product strategies while understanding regional nuances; ability to handle multiple tasks/projects with adherence to deadlines; must be meticulous and able to find the best solutions and development methods to improve efficiency; must be flexible to adapt to changing trends of business and/or ad-hoc projects

ENVIRONMENT: Fast-paced creative environment; work directly with global regions to ensure the efficient function of line selection.

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications without regard to race, ethnicity, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH is also committed to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential.

To achieve these goals, across the United States and its territories, PVH prohibits any PVH employee, agent or representative from requesting or otherwise considering any job applicant’s current or prior wages, salary or other compensation information in connection with the hiring process. Accordingly, applicants are asked not to disclose this salary history information to PVH.

             

Pay Range:$175,000 - $200,000

PVH currently provides base salary ranges for all positions-on job advertisements-in the United States based on local requirements. These ranges are based on what PVH reasonably believes that it will pay an associate for their base salary for said position at the time of the posting. Individual compensation will ultimately be determined based on a variety of relevant factors including but-not limited to qualifications, geographic location and other relevant skills. PVH is committed to providing a market-competitive total rewards package to eligible associates, which includes diverse and robust health and insurance benefits to meet the varied needs of our associates and an above-market 401(k) contribution to help our associates save for retirement. We also offer career growth opportunities, empowering our associates to design their future at PVH.

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications, consistent with applicable law and without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH also has a strong corporate commitment to inclusion, diversity and to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential. To achieve these goals, across the United States and its territories, PVH prohibits any PVH employee, agent or representative from requesting or otherwise considering any job applicant’s current or prior wages, salary or other compensation information in connection with the hiring process. Accordingly, applicants are asked not to disclose this salary history information to PVH


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