Associate Product Line Manager, Trail Run
$83,000–$87,000 year
HybridVentura, California, United States
Job Summary
Deliver a globally relevant Trail Run product line that maintains revenue, gross margin, and minimizes environmental impact. Create product briefs and communication for Design, Development, Marketing, and Materials teams. Support the Product Line Director with category line plans, retail pricing, color information, and PLM system data. Collaborate with design and development to ensure products meet customer needs, achieve costing targets, and align with brand principles. Gather insights from global sales channels, buyers, and dealers to inform product development, then lead presentations at Global Line Reviews and Sales Meetings. Maintain accurate systems and tools while enabling cross-functional partners to deliver seasonal collections.
Required Qualifications
- 3+ years' experience in sales, product experience in wholesale, retail or direct businesses
- Preferably in the outdoor, run apparel industry
- Experience in the product development process, merchandising and assortment planning processes, strategic product creation process
- Experience creating strategic assortments of multi-functional, versatile products for various outdoor sports and activities (key consumer trends and moments, aesthetics, preferences, relevant brands, industry collaborations, brand history, etc.)
- Experience in analyzing market trends, competitor products, and customer needs within the alpine and climb sectors
- Experience with Flex PLM or another Product Lifecycle Management System
- General understanding of apparel construction and sourcing process
- Strong verbal communication skills and the ability to deliver presentations to large groups
- Exceptional understanding of business and marketing objectives with a proven record of delivering against KPIs
- Collaborative — works effectively with cross-functional partners to support the Trail Run product line
- Trail Runner – deep understanding and stoke of the sport, community and product
- Inclusive - experienced in collaborating with others across differences
- Influential - able to engage with others in complicated and emotional workplace issues to collaborate on solutions and action
- Emotionally intelligent - high level of self-awareness, empathy, and interpersonal skills
- Nimble – moving from strategic process to tactical execution and back, seamlessly
- Detail-Oriented - ability to consistently communicate and follow up between external and internal parties and meet deadlines
- Curious - obsessed with driving new product innovations and exploring the global marketplace
- Demonstrates Initiative - conscientious and provides complete follow-through on areas of responsibility
- Hybrid, with a standard schedule of Tuesday - Thursday on-site and remote work on other days
Desired Qualifications
- Support the Active Essentials category as needed
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