Associate Manager, Product Strategy

Primary Purpose: As part of the growing Coach.com team, the Associate Manager will report to the Sr. Manager, Retail Ecommerce and is responsible for the day-to-day coordination and execution of product strategies on Coach.com, focusing on demand planning and inventory operations and fulfillment. This is a great opportunity for an individual with outstanding analytical and communication skills, who is strategic and operational.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Ecommerce to...
- Run weekly, monthly and quarterly sales analysis, organize and distribute reports, and participate in sales reviews and hindsights
- Monitor demand trends and come up with viable business solutions and creative opportunities to ensure risks are mitigated
- Partner with Finance team on demand analysis and forecasts highlighting short and long term risks and opportunities
- Monitor inventory across all product categories on Coach.com with emphasis around key marketing and Homepage styles
- Assist eCommerce team with site validations, ensuring all pricing and inventory are as expected, and troubleshoot with IT partners when needed
- Work closely with Allocation to build effective allocation strategies to ensure that distributions meet turn goals and maximize profitability
- Coordinate with Store Operations on inventory thresholds in stores to enable inventory to be fulfilled for eCommerce
- Liaise with customer care team and distribution center on inventory and fulfillment challenges
- Partner with Buying team to establish eCommerce product plans and influence markdown cadence

The accomplished individual will possess...
- BA or BS degree and at least 1-3 years of relevant experience; Buying, Planning and/or eCommerce experience preferred
- Advanced working knowledge of Excel and a reporting system; Demandware experience a plus
- Strong strategic thinking and outstanding analytical/quantitative skills
- Highly organized and proactive with a strong attention to detail and accuracy
- Excellent team working skills with the ability to manage cross-functional relationships across multiple levels; must work collaboratively to drive sales results
- Strong listening, written and exceptional oral communication skills
- Exceptional ability to adapt to changing priorities and react with appropriate sense of urgency

Our Competencies for All Employees
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
- Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.

Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong moraleand spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
- Managerial Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.

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