Merchandise Manager
On-siteStockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
Job Summary
Lead cross-channel merchandising strategy across wholesale, distribution, and DTC, deciding product placement in each channel and communicating assortment beliefs regarding styles, colors, and pricing. Align financial goals with buying through seasonal purchase plans and product forecasts while improving data points, KPIs, and analytical capabilities to drive competitive performance. Own the global stock-solving agenda, optimizing inventory levels, freshness, and availability across channels, and set cross-channel markdown and discount strategies to balance sell-through, stock turn, and margin against global targets. Act as the central point of contact for strategic assortment questions from Heads of Sales, Country Managers, and the DTC Merchandise Specialist, ensuring the seasonal commercial calendar is aligned across Product, Marketing, Sales, and DTC.
Required Qualifications
- Strong commercial mindset
- Proven experience in merchandising, assortment planning, or buying within retail/e-commerce
- Analytical and data-driven
- Confidence working with sales performance metrics, forecasts, and financial targets
- Highly structured with excellent planning skills
- Ability to manage timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, and deadlines across multiple projects
- Excellent cross-functional collaborator
- Ability to influence stakeholders across Product, Marketing, Retail, and Wholesale
- Experience leading and developing a merchandising team
- Experience including planning and channel specialist functions
- Proactive, hands-on, and solution-oriented mindset
- Comfortable managing and operating a function that is still being built
- Confident setting priorities and creating structure along the way
- Location: Stockholm, Sweden
- Contract: Maternity Cover — approx. 1 year, starting November/December 2026
Desired Qualifications
- Genuine passion for outdoor products, consumer experience, and premium brand building
- Both DTC and B2B background
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