Levi’s Footwear And Accessories (lfa) Manager

LEVİ STRAUSS İSTANBUL KONFEKSİYON SAN.VE TİC.A.Ş.

Job Description : 

Deliver the Net Revenue and gross margin AFP target at Levi’s Footwear and Accessories for all sales channels and underwear for O&O Channel through building and maintaining strong customer partnerships and brand equity, Complete yearly LFA planning across the business needs, the successful incumbent will be responsible from the following:

• Pro-actively deliver NR and gross margin targets by maximizing productivity for LFA and underwear categories at all related channels.
• Analyze the NR and gross margin data with financials in detail to identify opportunities to take necessary actions parallel to company priorities and objectives with regular reportings.
• Ensure forecasting accuracy of LFA and underwear with effective planning by collaborating closely with Planning to optimize stocks levels at DC and at customer level avoiding the stock-outs.
• Build the LFA and underwear assortments that are fully in line with market requirements with close partnership with Planning and sales team to work and agree on the purchase budgets.
• Attend product line meetings and organize sell-in/assortment presentation meetings with sales team.
• Planning consolidation of buying plans and transferring plans to buying department and tracking shipment during the year. 
• Successfully manage a diverse regional customer portfolio by regular visits to customers and the stores across Turkey.
• Manage the multi task business area with key facts, regular updates to Managing Director, prioritization of the tasks and finalizing on the deadlines.
• Build a long term strategical and sustainable partnership with the customers for LFA to provide customer and consumer satisfaction.

Requirements

• Bachelor degree in Business area or equivalent
• Min 3 years of experiences in retail category planning preferably in apparel company
• Pragmatic and commercially driven
• Attention to detail and excellent organizational abilities, working well under pressure.
• Strong customer relations and negotiation skills.
• Strong interpersonal skills with strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Able to build strong business relationships
• Analytic and multi-tasking
• Excellent command of both written and spoken English.
• Advanced user of MS Office applications especially Excel.