- Strategy & Business Delivery: Deliver the business plan across assigned product ranges (Men's RTW and Shoes) in alignment with overall company goals and strategic vision.
- Seasonal Buying & OTB Management: Lead and execute seasonal buying strategies (including Paris showroom buying sessions); define product assortments and manage Open-to-Buy (OTB) parameters tailored to local market needs and trends.
- Collection Events & Product Launches: Strategize, plan, and execute major collection events, trunk shows, and new product launches in close collaboration with the Marketing, VM, and Boutique teams to maximize commercial impact and VIP client engagement.
- Cross-Functional & Stakeholder Communication: Act as the primary strategic bridge and maintain seamless, proactive communication with diverse internal and external counterparts:
→ Global Headquarters (Paris): Align local market trends and commercial needs with global brand guidelines, reporting local performance and securing necessary product allocations.
→ Store & Retail Teams: Conduct regular store visits and touchpoints to gather quantitative and qualitative feedback, ensuring retail teams are fully aligned with the product strategy.
→ Local Cross-Functional Partners: Collaborate closely with Marketing, PR, Visual Merchandising (VM), Retail Operations, Retail Learning and Supply Chain to ensure a 360-degree, unified execution of the brand strategy.
 
O Team Leadership & People Management
→ Directly manage, mentor, and develop a team of two (2) merchandising staff members to maximize departmental strength and drive collective success.
    → Support the Merchandising Director in setting clear KPIs for the team, evaluating performance, and fostering a collaborative, high-performing environment.
 
O Category Management & Execution:
- Men's RTW: Take full ownership of day-to-day retail operations, inventory allocation, and execution down to the operational, ground level.
- Men's Shoes: Provide macro-level strategic oversight, review overall performance, and exercise final decision-making/approval authority.
- Inventory & Performance Optimization: Drive sales, optimize product assortment, and manage healthy stock levels across the boutique network through rigorous business analysis and reporting.
- Cross-Functional Liaison: Act as the primary bridge between Boutique teams, local partners, and Paris headquarters to ensure seamless communication, operational excellence, and effective strategy follow-through.
- Team Leadership: Support the Merchandising Director in guiding, developing, and leading the merchandising team to maximize departmental strength and success.
 
O Details of daily basis work 
- Responsible to manage MRTW & MSHOES (inspire, motivate, coach, nurture and develop) and to further develop and grow in Korea
-  Analyze & generate periodical sales and KPI report for Merchandising Director &   HQ Central team and propose appropriate action to take
- Be proactive on managing balanced stock flow in the store together with SC
- Be active and alarmed always on Fashion trends to propose country specific market insights and new product initiatives
- Be responsible in processing season collection materials (set venue for training, produce training materials etc)
- Merchset management (monitor stock in/out from head office for various event purposes)
- Monitor, control products performance with target sell-through and brainstorm action plans
- Study and research competitors’ trend, pricings to support Merchandising manager actively communicate with corporate merchants to build right positioning for the market
- Event support in diverse aspect (product preparation, track deliveries, set targets and assortments)
- Be align, to support transversal activities with other categories
 
O Professional & Technical Skills (Hard Skills)
- Strong Analytical & Matrix Modeling Skills:
- Demonstrated ability to structure and cross-analyze complex, multi-dimensional retail metrics (Sell-through, OTB, WOS, Margin) by store tiers and product categories to derive actionable business insights.
- Advanced proficiency in MS Excel (complex formulas, pivot tables, and data modeling) and familiarity with enterprise retail systems (e.g., PBI, Anaplan etc)
 
O Strategic Buying & Assortment Planning:
- Deep understanding of the local luxury market trends and consumer behaviors to plan healthy OTB parameters and optimize local product assortments.
- Experience in leading seasonal buying sessions in international showrooms (e.g., Paris) and managing product lifecycle extensions.
 
O Operational Agility & Tailored Category Management:
- A proven hands-on mindset to manage day-to-day execution, ground-level retail operations, and detailed stock allocation for Men’s RTW.
- Strategic oversight capabilities to monitor the Shoes portfolio from a macro perspective and make swift, high-level business decisions.
 

- Minimum 15 years of strong merchandising experience and mindset (Past luxury retail experience is highly preferential)
- Bachelor's degree at minimum (relevant field of major is preferential)
- Excellent communication skills in both Korean and English (both verbals, written) with parteners and stores
- Strong luxury business background with insights
- Demonstrates high commercial instinct
- Multi-Dimensional Analysis on retail aspects
- Excellent tool skills (Powerpoint, Excels as mandatory)
- Fluent Business English