PLM Manager Position Available In Palm Beach, Florida

PLM Manager BUGATCHI’s South Florida office is seeking a highly motivated, results-oriented PLM Manager with a passion for luxury menswear. The Product Line Management (PLM) team delivers product lines that support the overall design direction, while driving company sales, gross margin, and inventory productivity goals. This high performing team works closely with the design and product development teams to bring the product vision to life through future seasonal line plans. The PLM Manager will be responsible for the following: Executing the Product Line strategy across all business units for your dedicated categories and classes. Partnering with Design, Development and Finance teams to ensure each product with your line achieve the brief – from feature set to fit to margin. Partnering with Merchandising and Planning teams across all global business channels to execute on your dedicated product categories to deliver on sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals. Managing the product lifecycle for each model, from development to commercialization, to eventual redesign, replacement or retirement. Partnering on overall strategic direction on seasonal selling plans and supporting our overall strategies (grow, diminish, hold, exit, launch) (sell-thru vs sell-in). Contributing to documenting best practices and creating Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs) Researching and analyzing the global marketplace to identify key consumer and market insights to inform the concept work and development of new products and the range. Developing and delivering product presentations for key calendar touchpoints that inspire and deliver the critical information to our internal stakeholders, ensuring successful development of seasonal assets and plans. Owning global Go-To-Market (GTM) product knowledge and providing global Commercial and Brand teams and partners with selling tools and product information. Supporting with training and mentorship initiatives across the team. Collaborating with the Design and Development teams to create a line plan that delivers double digit sales growth, while delivering new and innovative product launches that support our guests getting outside and living it. Creating strong cross-functional partnerships with Planning and Allocations team counterparts, to help understand current business performance and leverage insights to guide and inform future range plans. Developing towards owning the full assortment strategy for your assigned activity set.

Requirements:

5+ years’ experience in Merchandising, Product Development, Wholesale and/or Retail Buying roles. Strong knowledge of sell through, calculating cost of goods, and the open to buy process Manage a large portfolio of model and high articles count. Strong organizational sand time management skills and excellent attention to detail Strong leadership and teamwork skills, able to facilitate work across different internal departments and external key accounts and vendors. Excellent understanding of the design and development process. You are excellent in the use of Adobe and Microsoft Office (especially PowerPoint and Excel) Proactive in identifying the root cause of issues and developing solutions. Flexible and adaptable and balance autonomy and collaboration.