Merchandising Associate, Wrangler Men's

Who We Are:

Kontoor Brands is a portfolio of three of the world’s most iconic lifestyle, outdoor and workwear brands: Wrangler®, Lee® and Helly Hansen®. Kontoor Brands is a purpose-led organization focused on leveraging its global platform, strategic sourcing model and best-in-class supply chain to drive brand growth and deliver long- term value for its stakeholders.

Job Posting:

Merchandising Associate, Wrangler Men’s

Kontoor Brands is currently seeking a Merchandising Associate for our Wrangler Men’s Merchandising Team at our Greensboro, NC headquarters. This position reports to the Merchandise Manager and is an integral player on the Wrangler team. This person will partner closely with a variety of individuals on the sales, design, finance, and product development teams to ensure product assortment in customers is successful.

Responsibilities

• Supports the development and execution of the Wrangler product offering to meet or exceed corporate financial requirements.
• Line plan management and consolidation: Gathers regional input and aligns the needs and consolidates for the global design team.
• Takes part in key big idea planning and provides volume estimates for the segment.  Reports progress against plans
• GTM & Line Management: Provides and/or gathers the inputs and outputs that support the GTM calendar at each milestone meeting.
• Gains a strong understanding of the consumer needs and gathers insights.
• Tracks sku count, cost targets, and margin expectations
• Take part in size scale management, Line presentations, submit reviews, Account specific style management along with our open line and PO/PIR/FOB review and approvals
• Travel from time to time.
• Maintains and tracks carryover style and life cycle management.  Ensures styles are carried forward or dropped as needed.
• Provides final assortment to Tech, PD, Operations, and sourcing teams along with updates after line cleaning.
• Creates tools to communicate the styles and shares with brand marketing and design counterparts for photoshoot coordination and hindsight reviews.
• Tracks and records costing process (target, brief, prototype, bulk samples)
• Pro-active communication on assortment and product changes.
• Initiates ticketing needs.
• Coordinate effectively between Design, PD, and Brand/Marketing partners.
• Ensure Operations & Sourcing Team is kept informed of all line decisions relevant to the product offer and work together on achieving financial and inventory objectives.
• Collects sample needs and coordinates sample execution.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree and at least 2 years’ experience in Merchandising field.
• 1-2 years of operational strategy experience.
• 2 years’ experience with complex problem solving.
• Operational Management – Line sheet entry and maintenance, carry-over monitoring.
• Operational Management – supply chain support and cross-functional partnership.
• Cross-functional Coordination with Design, PD and Tech.
• Business analysis - line development and adoption tracking; business tracking and reporting.
• Brand Coordination (seasonal collaboration on presentation material, on-product ticketing, photoshoots).
• Support for sell in needs (Samples, Product launch materials).

Leadership Competencies Expected for this Role:

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Global Agility – Open to diverse views, adapts to new ways of working

Purposeful Integrity – Demonstrates ethical behavior, follows through on commitments

Strategic Foresight – Understands team goals, asks strategic questions

Customer Centric Innovation – Suggests improvements from customer feedback, tries new methods

Urgency for Impact – Act quickly and take ownership of outcomes

Bold Accountability – Own your work and deliver consistently strong results

Empowered Collaboration – Share ideas, listens well, collaborates with peers

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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.