DTC Merchandise Manager
Haglofs
- Stockholm
- Permanent
- Heltid
- Own the DTC assortment strategy and ensure a premium, consumer-relevant product offer across all channels.
- Influence assortment development together with Product and Wholesale, using historical data, retail insights, and market trends.
- Ensure customer-centric assortment planning by leveraging consumer insights, preferences, and loyalty data.
- Develop and manage the commercial calendar, setting seasonal and tactical sales campaigns in close collaboration with Marketing.
- Provide feedback to Marketing during the planning phase on themes, categories, colors, and items, as well as GTM timing.
- Support product entry and introduction strategies for different categories together with Wholesale.
- Lead pricing and markdown strategies to balance profitability with premium brand positioning.
- Manage Open-to-Buy and stock levels to ensure balanced investments and healthy inventory.
- Forecast and allocate inventory to DTC channels, securing product availability where and when needed.
- Optimize stock flows between stores, outlets, e-commerce, and wholesale warehouses to maximize profitable sales.
- Monitor sales and profitability across all DTC channels and act in-season to optimize performance.
- Review category and product performance (e.g., footwear, apparel, hardware) to refine assortment mix.
- Conduct competitor and market analysis to keep the DTC offer relevant and competitive.
- Partner with E-commerce to optimize online merchandising and conversion.
- Collaborate with Retail and Visual Merchandising to secure premium product presentation in stores.
- Manage the full product lifecycle, from launch to end-of-life.
- Guarantee product availability, content readiness, and execution across all DTC touchpoints.
- Drive omnichannel alignment to ensure a consistent brand experience.
- Assess and suggest systems and solutions to improve accuracy, speed, and scalability of processes.
- Deliver regular reporting on sales, inventory, and campaign performance.
- Share actionable insights to influence planning, assortment, and go-to-market strategies.
- Strong commercial mindset with proven experience in merchandising, assortment planning, or buying within retail/e-commerce (3–5 years).
- Genuine passion for outdoor products, consumer experience, and premium brand building.
- Analytical and data-driven, with confidence working with forecasts, sales metrics, and financial targets.
- Highly structured, with excellent planning skills – able to manage timelines, dependencies, stakeholders, and deadlines.
- Experienced collaborator, able to influence across Product, Marketing, Retail, and Wholesale.
- Organized and hands-on, thriving in a fast-paced environment with multiple priorities.