Global Product Director

Global Product Director

This position is designated as a hybrid role based out of our headquarters near Portland, Oregon. The current expectation is for employees to work onsite four days per week, subject to change based on business needs. This in-office requirement may be adjusted at the discretion of the company.

About The Position

The Global Product Director is responsible for leading, inspiring, and coaching a team of Product Line Managers through all stages of the product creation process, from uncovering consumer and marketplace insights to presenting finalized concepts at key go to market gates. This includes authoring product briefs, analyzing business metrics, researching marketplace trends, architecting the line plan, and collaborating with Design and Development teammates to create the future vision of SOREL footwear. In partnership with the Vice President of Product, the Product Director will execute the seasonal and long-range Product Strategy, ensuring that the various merchandising classes SOREL serves are property strategized and supported. This role will work cross-functionally within creation leadership alongside design and development in a respectful, collaborative environment.

This role also serves as the North America Merchandising Director; ensuring the Global PLMs work with North America wholesale marketplace to ensure the right products and assortments, flow, and overall line architecture serves our unique and dynamic distribution. This role also partners with the Director of eComm and on-site merchandisers to ensure assortment opportunities and consumer-right product concepts are realized.

The ideal candidate will bring a deep understanding of footwear top to bottom and across various product types. This candidate has a keen understanding of the Industry, Marketplace, and Trends at a Global Level with an eye for street fashion, high fashion, outdoors, and culture. This leader is deeply connected and savvy in consumer connectivity, understanding, filtering, and using experience and instinct to lead the product managers to their vision. You will lead the team to craft inspiring seasonal narratives that articulate a vision and ignite design and empower development to problem solve and seek answers. As product director, SOREL footwear, your leadership will enable distinct and credible products to go to market in meaningful, brand-right assortments that meet the marketplace needs and strategy across channels.

How You'll Make A Difference

• You have a clear passion for footwear, curiosity of insights and an analytical, diplomatic and collaborative approach to product creation.
• Working alongside design and development leadership team, you will be responsible for achieving set target margins at a product and category level.
• Lead and manage the PLM team in proofing product line needs including sales tools such as catalogs, components, hang tags, Point of Purchase (P.O.P), packaging and label / logo information.
• Create and lead key milestone meetings, working in collaboration with the product management team to build compelling and accurate presentations.
• Build strong cross-functional relationships with merchandising, sales, marketing and planning to help facilitate on-time and on-target product launches.
• Lead and guide the product preparation process for key retailers, internal stakeholders and sales representatives.
• Drive seasonal product briefs in accordance with brand, category and strategy.

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