Senior Collaboration Manager

As the Senior Collaboration Manager, you will be responsible for translating Moose’s global brand strategy into meaningful brand collaborations. You will be responsible for problem-solving, and supporting the VP of Global Marketing, as well as partnering closely with cross-functional internal and external stakeholders, ensuring quality control and project management on timely deliverables.

Some of What You’ll Do:

• Own the planning, execution, and control of collaboration projects 
• Drive the problem-solving process, frame problems, guide analytical modeling, and through analysis, providing insights into solutions.
• Drive success and/or failures and willing to pin professional success to the outcome of initiatives and not shy away from responsibility.
• Facilitate meetings and workshops with all the levels of the organization and external collaborators.
• Use strong collaborating and influencing skills, to serve as the lead conduit between the Marketing/ Creative, Design and Merchandising teams.
• Ensure that collaboration product meets specific merchandising and brand objectives, revenue targets, and goals.
• Lead development all collaboration dashboards as well as the consolidation of global information to support and build of global strategies for the Brand.
• Understand and shows passion for the worldwide fashion and retail market in terms of consumer behavior, competitor, and industry developments
• Oversee collaboration budgets
• Create pitch decks for collaboration targets

Some of What You’ll Need:

• 5+ years of experience working in either merchandising or marketing in Fashion and preferably with experience in collaborations  
• Prior experience managing Fashion/Apparel development calendar; PLM experience a plus
• Experience working in a team-oriented, cross-functional, and collaborative environment with internal and external stakeholders
• Must possess some level of Merchandising expertise
• Experience in an apparel wholesaler or manufacturer at some point 
• Knowledge of finance, marketing, product development, production, merchant and planning functions and/or comfort with a steep learning curve
• Project management, problem structuring, and strategic problem-solving skills – Demonstrated ability to complete quantitative and qualitative analysis
• Ability to build and manage calendar/product development process & tools
• Ability to Travel 

Some of Who You Are:

• Has a deep understanding of current culture and what drives it
• Excellent communication, leadership, problem solving, and analytical skills.
• Ability to build relationships at all levels to establish oneself as a trusted advisor
• Proactive, self-starter, entrepreneurial
• Rapidly adapt and respond to changes in environment and priorities
• Superb organizational and communication skills
• A positive, can-do attitude
• A strong work ethic, high personal values and standards
• Affinity with lifestyle, fashion and/or consumer facing industries
• Superior interpersonal skills and ability to work cross-functionally, including with senior leadership
• Strategic vision and creative thinking: - Ability to look beyond existing paradigms, and change the organization according to new business concepts
• Effective communicator and influencer. Comfortable presenting in front of senior leadership audiences. Facilitates workshops and resolves possible conflict
• Hands-on mentality and pragmatic approach with strong collaboration attitude and team play
• Ambitious, motivated to go the extra mile and able to perform in a demanding work environment
• High standard of ethics, integrity and confidentiality