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Global Category Manager For Blackburn Cycling Accessory

As the Global Category Manager for Blackburn Cycling Accessory brand, it will be your responsibility to drive outcomes for the Blackburn business. You will be given the unique opportunity to build our leadership position in the cycling accessory marketplace. At Revelyst and Blackburn, we are looking for great people with passion, humility, determination, and most importantly a drive to constantly improve.

This is a global merchandising role with responsibilities for cycling accessories in all channels of business. You will be tasked with setting the strategy for the Blackburn brand, inclusive of a long-term product plan that can meet and exceed financial targets in revenue, SKU productivity, and margin. This role reports to the Senior Director of Merchandising and will have one direct report. The role requires very close collaboration with design, development, planning, and demand creation teams, as well as all regional brand managers.

This position reports to the Director of Merchandising and allows you the flexibility to work a hybrid schedule from your home and the Irvine office. The expectation of in office work will be Tuesday through Thursday each week.

As the Global Category Manager for Blackburn Cycling Accessories, you will have an opportunity to :

• Lead the Blackburn Accessory category with a GLOBAL product vision, which blends Blackburn's DNA / Heritage & regional needs with the objective to shape the future of Blackburn.
• Maintain an intimate understanding of the cycling accessories market and our core consumers to benchmark our perceived value and create competitive advantages.
• Articulate a clear plan around category positioning, product segmentation, and strategic financial objectives to all global and regional teams.
• Create a line architecture with a high degree of sensitivity for balancing brand needs with specific regional & distribution needs.
• Own the product creation process to drive innovative, high perceived value products utilizing function, fabrications, trims, and silhouettes, to achieve go-in-margin targets set by the executive team.
• Work with the demand creation team on the strategy and execution of all global sell-in & sell-out tools for your category.
• Demonstrate strong leadership skills to be able to motivate, guide and coach your team, and cross-functional and regional partners.

You Have :

Pay Range : Annual Salary : $100,000.00 - $120,000.00. The actual annual salary offered to a candidate will be based on variables including experience, geographic location, education, and skills / achievements, and will be mutually agreed upon at the time of offer.

We offer a highly competitive salary, comprehensive benefits including : medical and dental, vision, disability and life insurance, 401K, PTO, paid holidays, gear discounts and the ability to add value to an exciting mission!

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