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The Team
Within the Full Price Buying & Merchandising team our mission is to ensure the Global Full Price product strategy is tailored to the regional needs driving DTC performance and wholesale growth. The team plays a pivotal role in operational readiness and strategic alignment working collaboratively with Hubs and broader CK teams to drive commercial performance. The Regional Merchandising team contributes to this mission by focusing specifically on product assortments for the EMEA region ensuring alignment with both global strategies and local consumer demands. This position is crucial in maintaining a seamless flow of communication and execution between global teams and regional sales. Together these roles support overall strategic growth operational efficiency and the success of product categories.
The Position
In the Full Price Buying & Merchandising team the focus is on ensuring that regional product assortments align with global strategies to drive commercial success. As a Junior Regional Merchandiser you will support the execution of merchandising strategies for the respective categories in the EMEA region. Reporting to the Senior Manager Regional Merchandising you will assist with market analysis product lifecycle management forecasting and the creation of sales tools. This role is essential in helping ensure that the product assortment meets market needs and aligns with global strategies contributing directly to the success and profitability of the categories in the region.
Key Responsibilities:
Regional Assortment Architecture Support: Assist in the communication of product needs from the regional markets to the global product teams ensuring that assortments align with regional market demands to ensure right assortment across all channels including wholesale and DTC.
Assortment & Range Planning Support: Support the team in range planning helping to ensure products are available and aligned with the overall product strategy for the region.
Market Insights & Feedback: Support the gathering organizing and analyzing data related to product needs including sell-in sell-out data market trends and consumer insights. Assist in providing actionable feedback to help shape the regional product strategy.
Sales Tools Creation: Help create and distribute sales tools and materials to markets to support the effective promotion and selling of products.
Product Lifecycle Support: Assist with the management of product lifecycle tasks such as product updates phase-outs and maintaining appropriate product availability.
Collaboration with Commercial Teams: Assist in the coordination of product rollouts and launches ensuring the markets receive the necessary products and materials to support sales.
Cross-Functional Collaboration: Collaborate with global hub and planning teams to ensure that regional needs are effectively communicated and met.
Measures of Success
Product selection and trend responsiveness: high levels of assortment success including sell out performance of new collections speed to market for new trends exclusive product performance
Customer and market insight: accurate market insight including customer demand forecasting customer ratings and reviews
Range & option count sell through rate net sales and inventory levels
Requirements
Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales data market trends and consumer behavior.
Proficiency with merchandising software (e.g. SAP Excel) to track and manage product assortments.
Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to effectively interact with both regional and global teams.
Able to work in a fast paced matrix based challenging environment.
Detail-oriented with the ability to manage multiple projects and deadlines in a fast-paced matrixed environment.
Fluent English both written and verbal.
Education: A Bachelors degree in Business Fashion Merchandising or a related field is preferred or equivalent professional experience.
Your Wellbeing is Our Priority
In the heart of Amsterdam PVH is home to the global headquarters of Tommy Hilfiger and the European offices of Calvin Klein.
Wellbeing:exclusive onsite gym and fitness classes personal training meditation studio sports clubs in-house physio and receive access to our nutritional and wellbeing programs
Campus:extensive food and beverage offerings top-notch restaurant barista coffee bars sky bar monthly social events weekly Thursday drinks game nights and campus-themed activities that will keep your social life busy
Develop your career: whether you lead a team or contribute your own expertise everyone is a leader at PVH. PVH University curates and delivers training programs for you to continuously develop your professional and personal goals
Be at the forefront:stay closely connected to our brands CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER and be a part of seasonal market launches sample sales and receive employee discounts!
At PVH how we act is as important as what we do. Here are some key behaviours we expect from our people:
ENTERPRISE FIRST we act in the best interests of PVH and its consumers beyond our own team brand region or market.
DRIVE CHANGE we lead by example and are optimistic about change. We challenge the status quo but fully commit once a decision is made.
CREATE CLARITY we are diligent in providing context and setting our priorities so we can be productive quickly.
INSPIRE TRUST we create safe spaces for debate and deliver on what we promise so people can learn to depend on us.
TAKE ACCOUNTABILITY we focus on work with the biggest business impact and give candid feedback to each other.
Your Wellbeing is Our Priority
In the heart of Amsterdam PVH is home to the global headquarters of Tommy Hilfiger and the European offices of Calvin Klein.
Wellbeing:exclusive onsite gym and fitness classes personal training meditation studio sports clubs in-house physio and receive access to our nutritional and wellbeing programs
Campus:extensive food and beverage offerings top-notch restaurant barista coffee bars sky bar monthly social events weekly Thursday drinks game nights and campus-themed activities that will keep your social life busy
Develop your career: whether you lead a team or contribute your own expertise everyone is a leader at PVH. PVH University curates and delivers training programs for you to continuously develop your professional and personal goals
Be at the forefront:stay closely connected to our brands CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER and be a part of seasonal market launches sample sales and receive employee discounts!
Check out our Amsterdam Campus here.
About PVH:
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. Thats the Power of Us thats the Power of PVH.
One of PVHs 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 Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.
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 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.
Required Experience:
Junior IC