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Merchandising Associate

Greensboro, United Statesfull_timeVerifiedPosted 17 Apr 2025

About the role

Who We Are:

Kontoor Brands, Inc. (KTB) is the parent company of Wrangler®, Lee® and Rock & Republic®, with owned manufacturing facilities in Mexico and Nicaragua. Kontoor also owns and operates over 140 retail stores across the globe. Our global company employs more than 15,000 people in 65 countries, with world headquarters in Greensboro, North Carolina, and regional headquarters in Geneva and Hong Kong.

Job Posting:

Global Merchandising Associate – Wrangler

Job Summary

Supports the development and execution of the global Wrangler product offering to meet or exceed corporate financial requirements.
Takes part in key big idea planning and provides volume estimates for the segment. Reports progress against plans
GTM & Line Management: Provides and/or gathers the inputs and outputs that support the GTM calendar at each milestone meeting.
Strong understanding of product, details and attributes.
Partners with each region to gain a strong understanding of the consumer needs and gathers insights.
Tracks volume projections, cost targets, and margin expectations
Creates and maintains the Global master line plans and provides timely updates to the regions
Provides overviews and expectations of inputs and outputs of each GTM milestone to the regional teams
Maintains and tracks carryover style (together with Regional Merch teams) and life cycle management. Ensures styles are carried forward or dropped as needed.
Provides final consolidated assortment to Tech, PD, Operations, and sourcing teams along with updates after regional line cleaning.
Creates tools to communicate the globally aligned styles and shares with brand marketing and design counterparts for photoshoot coordination and hindsight reviews.
Tracks and records costing process (target, brief, prototype, bulk samples)
Attends and coordinates regular meetings with Regional Merchandising teams (virtual & market visits) to ensure complete awareness of regional needs in terms of line structure, product requirements, pricing architecture, distribution, competitive activity, and critical operational issues
Pro-active communication on assortment and product changes.
Organizes specific regional asks to be reviewed by the Merchandiser and Director prior to passing to design teams.
Supports the creation and management of master line sheets for the global styles
Creates the presentation materials for key milestones, brief to brand and regional needs.
Serves as a problem-solving resource to cross-functional teams to proactively lead best practice for milestones and process.
Builds and maintains global relationships: Create, drive, and sustain highly effective and influential vital relationships with internal and external partners to deliver business objectives. Develop understanding and empathy for global regions and their business needs
Coordinate effectively between Global Design, PD, and Brand/Marketing partners
Ensure Operations & Sourcing Team is kept informed of all line decisions relevant to the product offer and work together on achieving financial and inventory objectives

Responsibilities

Global alignment – Global brief and line plan gathering and consolidation of NAM, EMEA, APAC, CASA
Operational Management – Line sheet entry and maintenance, carry-over monitoring
Operational Management – supply chain support and cross-functional partnership
Cross-functional Coordination with Global Design, PD and Tech
Business analysis - line development and adoption tracking; regional business tracking and reporting
Brand Coordination (seasonal collaboration on presentation material, on-product ticketing, photoshoots)
Support for Global sell in needs (Samples, Global product launch materials)

Experience