CDD - RETAIL MERCHANDISING MANAGER – HANDBAGS / Women's Leather Goods (F/M)

Poste

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Within the Women's Leather Goods Business Unit, the Retail Merchandising Manager Handbags leads a team of merchandisers and coordinates key retail merchandising activities to support global business performance and the effective deployment of collections across markets.

The role combines team leadership, business performance analysis, product assortment management and cross-functional coordination. Working closely with regional merchandising teams and HQ stakeholders, the Retail Merchandising Manager translates business objectives and collection priorities into actionable recommendations, ensuring alignment between global merchandising strategy, regional market needs and commercial priorities.

Missions

TEAM MANAGEMENT & DEVELOPMENT

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• Lead and manage a team of three, ensuring clear priorities, effective workload distribution and alignment with business objectives.
  
• Coordinate day-to-day activities and monitor the timely delivery of deliverables.
  
• Provide regular guidance, coaching and feedback to team members, supporting their professional development, autonomy and performance.
  
• Conduct development and performance discussions, identify development needs and support individual growth.
  
• Foster collaboration, accountability and knowledg
  
• Ensure continuity and consistency of team activities across key business periods, collection launches and buying sessions.
  

BUSINESS PERFORMANCE & MERCHANDISING ANALYSIS

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• Monitor and analyze global business performance on a weekly basis, including sales results by region, product line and collection.
  
• Identify key trends, business opportunities and risks, translating quantitative analyses into clear insights and actionable recommendations.
  
• Contribute to discussions on business priorities and action plans.
  
• Analyze the performance of permanent and seasonal collections to support assortment optimization.
  
• Coordinate with regional merchandising teams to review local performance, understand market-specific needs and align on merchandising priorities.
  
• Collaborate on yearly creation of Budget & 3 Year Plan for the handbags category.
  
• Work biannually on Destockage proposal & strategy.
  

COLLECTION ASSORTMENT & BUYING SESSIONS

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• Coordinate the preparation of merchandising analyses and recommendations.
  
• Contribute to the development and optimization of permanent and seasonal assortments, taking into account product performance, collection priorities and regional market needs.
  
• Develop data-driven product and buying recommendations to guide regional markets in building their assortments.
  
• Review regional buying proposals and contribute to discussions to ensure alignment with global merchandising priorities and commercial objectives.
  
• Collaborate with Business Planning on buying budget and OTB discussions.
  
• Coordinate the preparation of pre-debrief and debrief analyses, consolidating key findings and recommendations for management.
  
• Coordinate dedicated 360 launch approach & launchpacks for key new lines.
  

FORECASTING & BUSINESS PLANNING

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• Contribute to the preparation and review of sales forecasts by product line and collection, in line with global business objectives.
  
• Analyze forecast submissions and business trends, identifying potential risks, opportunities.
  
• Collaborate with regional merchandising teams and relevant HQ stakeholders to support forecast alignment and follow-up.
  
• Work closely with Business Planning and Supply Chain teams to ensure consistency between merchandising priorities, commercial objectives and stock considerations.
  
• Provide merchandising insights to support business planning discussions.
  

CROSS-FUNCTIONAL COLLABORATION

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• Ensure clear launch priorities & delivery view with Supply Chain team.
  
• Coordinate the communication of relevant merchandising and product priorities to Visual Merchandising and other stakeholders, in line with collection priorities and business objectives.
  
• Act as a key coordination point between HQ merchandising, regional merchandising teams and cross-functional stakeholders, including Business Planning, Supply Chain, Visual Merchandising and E-commerce.
  
• Ensure clear communication of merchandising recommendations, collection priorities and business updates to relevant stakeholders.
  
• Contribute to the continuous improvement of merchandising reporting
  

Profil

Degree in Business, Management, Mer