Retail Product Manager

Job Responsibilities:

• Partner with the apparel product creation team to drive process and strategy for the NWSL.
• Establish, maintain, and cultivate key relationships with teams, the league, and recognize consumer and competitive trends in key North American markets.
• Leverage athlete, consumer, and marketplace insights to create impactful product narratives.
• Lead a product team to deliver innovative and high-performance products for athletes and a compelling retail assortment for consumers.
• Analyze current business trends, including bookings and sell-through by channel, country, GEO, style, and color.
• Understand the consumer, analyze product and competitive trends in the team markets, and apply this understanding to decision making.

Skills Required:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field (or 2 years additional relevant experience in lieu of degree).
• 5 years experience in relevant product-related roles.
• Expert Product Management and Merchandising skills and understanding of the product process.
• Strong business orientation, analytical aptitude, and retail math skills.
• Demonstrated leadership capability, including ability to motivate, lead, negotiate and influence.
• Proficiency with Keynote, Adobe Suite, PowerPoint and Excel.

Additional Qualifications:

• Ability to travel up to 10% of time.
• Global sense of awareness (knowledge of current world events, respect and appreciation for other cultures).
• Deep knowledge and understanding of athletes, marketplace and consumer landscape.
• A passion or interest in Global Football (Soccer) is a plus.

About SSi People:

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