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Who You’ll Work With
You will sit at the center of Converse’s Greater China Merchandising ecosystem, serving as the connective tissue between data, process, and execution while supporting the Footwear and Apparel & Accessories business units.
You will partner closely with the Global Business Integration team to ensure Greater China nuances are represented in global tools and solutions. Locally, you will work across the Merchandising community and Business Integration GamePlan teams. You will also partner cross-functionally with Marketing, Planning, Supply Chain, and Digital, and collaborate with technology resources to develop local data capabilities.
This role reports to the Merchandising Business Integration leadership team and requires daily engagement with stakeholders at all levels, from analysts to senior leaders.
What You’ll Work On
Build the Data Foundation
- Classify and structure product data assets into scalable frameworks that enable consistency across merchandising systems, from initial code setup through seasonal execution.
- Establish mechanisms, dashboards, and tools to monitor and govern data quality, ensuring product data is accurate, timely, complete, and reliable, with clear ownership and remediation paths.
Drive Merchandising Excellence
- Lead data cleansing, standardization, definition alignment, and process design.
- Act as the central organizer aligning Merchandising, Planning, Supply Chain, and Digital teams to execute defined processes.
- Enable strategic launches through disciplined data governance from planning through execution.
- Identify issues, resolve them, and continuously improve data structures and workflows.
- Support scorecard reporting and tracking for sales performance and analysis for key merchandising events, including product trends and historical sales performance.
- Manage seasonal margin checks and provide analysis and recommendations for setting reasonable MSRPs.
- Develop and manage promotional guidance logic and its maintenance.
- Oversee sample management, including sample ordering, budget planning, coordination with logistics teams for warehouse samples, and the sample borrowing process.
Connect Global & Local
- Voice Greater China nuances to global Business Integration and ensure global tools and solutions meet local business needs.
- Drive successful local adoption of global initiatives.
- Feed local requirements and insights back to global teams so Greater China needs are built into solutions.
Codify, Communicate, Train
- Own the communication strategy for data governance outcomes.
- Design and deliver clear communications to increase awareness, drive adoption, and improve how teams understand and use governed product data.
- Build and maintain the Data Governance playbook, including data definitions, usage guidelines, standard operating procedures, and best practices.
- Deliver accessible training to upskill the broader organization, from analysts to senior leaders.
Who We Are Looking For
- Proactive and results-driven: Identifies what needs to be done, mobilizes resources, and drives outcomes with minimal supervision.
- Strong logical and strategic thinking: Synthesizes complex information, identifies patterns, draws clear conclusions, and translates business needs into structured data frameworks.
- Strong interpersonal and collaboration skills: Works effectively across teams, leads discussions, manages stakeholders, aligns diverse perspectives, and drives collective action.
- Excellent English proficiency: Fluent in written and spoken English, with the ability to communicate confidently with global teams and produce clear documentation.
- Solid Excel and PowerPoint skills: Advanced Excel proficiency for data analysis, reconciliation, quality checking, and large datasets, along with the ability to build clear PowerPoint narratives.
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