Global Modern Merchandising Specialist

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 Modern Merchandising Specialist - Wrangler

Kontoor Brands is currently seeking a Global Modern Merchandising Specialist - Wrangler to support the development and execution of the global Wrangler product offering to meet or exceed corporate financial requirements.

Responsibilities:

• Partners with each region to gain a strong understanding of the consumer needs and gathers insights.
• Aggregates volume projections, cost targets, and margin expectations
• Creates and maintains the Global master visual 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
• Creates tools to communicate the globally aligned styles and shares with brand marketing and design counterparts for photoshoot coordination and hindsight reviews.
• Attends and coordinates regular meetings with Regional Merchandising teams to ensure complete awareness of regional needs in terms of line structure, product requirements,
• Pro-active communication on assortment and product changes with updates to all Global tools.
• Organizes specific regional asks to be reviewed by the Manager and VP prior to passing to design teams.
• Creates and maintains master line sheets for the global styles
• Initiates global ticketing needs
• Under the guidance of MA and Coordinator, maintain and distributeall information of assigned product category encompassing presentation materials for all GC owned milestone meetings, line sheets, and regional tools.
• Manage ticketing information by style in Global Master Data file for TP package completion.
• 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
• Aids in informing Operations & Sourcing Team of all line decisions relevant to the product offer and work together on achieving financial and inventory objectives
• Sample check in and maintenance of Global Set (Preline and SMS)

Requirements:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Merchandising Experience
• Experience with complex problem-solving
• Global Experience preferred but not required
• Experience working in a global consumer goods business

Why Kontoor Brands?

At Kontoor, we offer a comprehensive benefit package to fit your lifestyle. Our benefits are crafted with the same care as our products.

When our employees are healthy, secure, and well, they bring their best selves to work. Kontoor Brands supports you with a competitive benefits program that provides choice and flexibility to meet your and your family's needs - now and in the future. We offer resources to support your physical, emotional, social, and financial wellbeing, plus benefits like discounts on our apparel. Kontoor Brands also provides four weeks of Paid Parental Leave to eligible employees who are new parents, Flexible Fridays, and Tuition Reimbursement.

We are proud to offer a workplace culture centered on equitable opportunities and a sense of belonging for all team members. Here we have a global workforce of high-performing teams that both unlocks our individual uniqueness and harnesses our collaborative talents.