PRODUCT MANAGER, RETAIL PRODUCT LINES

Location: Beaverton, Oregon
Job Type: Contract
Compensation Range: $46 - 47 per hour

We are looking for an experienced and seasoned Product Line Manager for our Global Football and NWSL Apparel business. This role will partner with the overall apparel product creation team, and drive process and strategy for the NWSL. We're looking for someone that can establish, maintain, and cultivate key relationships with the teams, the league, and recognize consumer and competitive trends in key North American markets.

The ideal candidate will be able to leverage athlete, consumer, and marketplace insights and translate them in impact product narratives that resonate at a local level. This candidate will lead and collaborate with a product team to deliver and showcase the most innovative and high-performance product in the industry for athletes as well as deliver a compelling retail assortment for consumers for the league's major moments. Analysis of current business (including bookings and sell-through by channel, country, GEO, style.

Who you will work with:

• This role will work intimately with the NWSL Product Lead, Design, Tech Development, Merchandising, Operations, and Sports Marketing teams to manage the product creation cycle.

Responsibilities:

• Understanding the consumer, analyzing product and competitive trends in the team markets.
• Apply expert understanding of the product creation, delivery and pricing needs of consumers, key markets and channels to decision making.
• Creating and communicating a vision for product Categories, driven through strong end-in-mind [story telling] and consumer-right product strategies.
• Serve as the business spokesperson at key product creation meetings.
• Direct the team agreement of the product line, costing, and pricing needs of consumers, key markets and channels.
• Drive the execution of key initiatives.
• Lead the product creation process through key interaction with product and graphic design, materials, tech design, merchandising, development and operations.
• Oversee or create presentations to sell-in the product.
• Line planning and briefing to the appropriate style/SKU level to optimize productivity, margin and revenue.
• Develop, maintain and foster key relationships between the league, clubs, and Sports Marketing.

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
• 2 years' additional relevant experience in lieu of degree.
• 5 years' experience in relevant product-related roles.
• Expert Product Management and Merchandising skills and expert understanding of the product process.
• Strong business orientation, analytical aptitude, and retail math.
• Strong business management experience.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including ability to motivate, lead, negotiate and influence.
• Ability to travel up to 10% of time.
• Have a global sense of awareness. (Knowledge of current world events. Respect and appreciation for other cultures).
• Experience with Keynote, Adobe Suite, PowerPoint and Excel.
• Deep knowledge and understanding of athletes, marketplace and consumer landscape.
• A passion or interest in Global Football (Soccer) is a plus.

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Pay offered to a successful candidate will be based on several factors including the candidate's education, work experience, work location, specific job duties, certifications, etc. In addition, Cella by randstad digital offers a comprehensive benefits package, including health, an incentive and recognition program, and 401K contribution (all benefits are based on eligibility).

This posting is open for thirty (30) days.