Job Description
Business Planning and Budgeting
• Participate in the annual business planning and provide inputs to the CEO and the rest of the Top management team
• Create the overall product and merchandizing strategy (private vs international brands) for the Concept
• Analyze Concept strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats vis a vis competition and assess market opportunity
• Oversee the category/brand management with the objective of maximizing sales and profits
• Plan and approve the merchandising budget for the category/brand
• Liaise with the process excellence team to spearhead continual improvement in Buying & Merchandising processes
Category/Brand Management
• Develop comprehensive category/brand business plans that are consistent with the company's overall goals and strategies for assigned categories/brands
• Ensure growth in the sales and gross margins for all categories/brands by driving focus on individual categories/brands
• Plan and approve the buying budget for the category/brand
• Oversee overall category/brand plans in the areas of pricing, promotion, assortment and allocation for each category/brand
• Monitor and review the performance of category/brand business plans by using appropriate scorecard for measuring category/brand performance
• Ensure collaboration between category/brand managers to leverage efficiencies in procurement, transportation, warehousing and store operations
• Maintain relationships with key vendors who are critical for the long term success of the business
Merchandise Planning
• Supervise the merchandise planning process and all other parameters used for merchandise analytics
• Oversee planning of merchandise requirements by setting sourcing triggers based on actual sales, sales forecasts, company order parameters, inventory checks, forth coming events, replenishment needs etc
• Discuss, decide and freeze the merchandise plans(pricing, promotion and assortment) and ensure effective in season management
• Review the merchandise plans on a periodic basis to ensure profit is maximized and maintained to reach target levels
Supplier Management
- Ensure that there are adequate measures for cost savings through negotiations with Suppliers
- Ensure that there are Systems and Processes for the achievement of reconciliation with the Suppliers;
- Guarantee on-time delivery of merchandise by the supplier without delay
- Maintain vendor relationship for stabilization of assigned product categories as per category management plan
Product Design
• Ensure all design and development activities are carried out within budget and are related to market demands, company image and business strategy
• Supervise design and development plan with specifications on product features, functions, packaging and resource requirement across categories
Quality Control
• Supervise formulation of the quality control process steps and manual ( lab dips, fabric, trim checks)
• Ensure the merchandise procured and received meets the quality standards set by Landmark
People Management
• Develop talent within the team by providing consistent direction and support to achieve stretch targets and take leadership positions
• Retain and engage the talent employed and build a collaborative and high performance team
• Enhance team productivity through skills development through coaching and training
• Ensure objective periodic administration of the performance appraisal process followed by monitoring of feedback implementation for the team
• Ensure all employee disciplinary issues and grievances are dealt with correctly
Skills
• Expert Knowledge of Merchandising processes/practices
• Expert Knowledge of Retail Industry and products
• Communication skills
• Negotiation skills
• Analytical skills
• Innovation and creativity
• Leadership skills
Head – Merchandise Development & Sourcing (Kidswear) at Landmark Gulf Group LLC
Senior Manager - User Experience (UX) Design at LANDMARK GROUP
Job Description
Senior Manager - User Experience (UX) Design
Principal responsibility
The Senior UX Designer will lead the redesign of all outdated concept websites to make them world-class, user-friendly web products that are simple, straightforward, intuitive, web 2.0, and standards compliant.
Key areas of responsibility
• Guide stakeholders through the Information Architecture (IA) process to define goals and requirements and ensure that each project has a clear, well-defined IA
• Lead the design journey through process flows, wireframes, low and high-fidelity prototypes of each project and iterate as required for higher UI quality
• Facilitate the project as required to ensure successful completion
• Determine and communicate project costs, timelines, manpower and budgetary requirements
• Help build Landmark's web division by hiring relevant team members to facilitate the above redesign program
• Outsource web functions (like design, development, copywriting etc.) wherever required to expedite accomplishing the program's goals; assist partners in accomplishing project/product/program goals.
• Communicate project progress, problems and projections on a regular basis
• Provide design and usability advice on recently redesigned web products and on emerging initiatives such as e-commerce to improve the quality of the user-experience (UX) for these initiatives
Qualifications
• Proven mastery of design for web usability
• Bachelors or Masters in Human Computer Interaction, Information Design, Web Design or related field
• Proven ability to develop process flow diagrams, wireframes, low and high-fidelity prototypes to articulate information design
• Minimum 7 years creating web experiences
• Extreme passion for user-centered design practices and the ability to demonstrate mastery of the principles of interface design, information architecture, interaction design and visual design
• Passion for the social web
• Ability to analyze complex ideas and propose design solutions that solve specified problems
Skills
Who You Are
You're a rockstar web designer, usability specialist and project leader who lives to build great web products. You've got the ability to lead multiple design or redesign projects and work with a variety of stakeholders and partners to deliver clean, innovative, standards-compliant, and user-friendly web experiences on-time and on-cost. You're a fan of the "less is more" philosophy and driven by sophisticated, elegant and effective user-interfaces.
Senior Product Manager at LANDMARK GROUP
Job Description
Senior Product Manager
Principal responsibility
The Senior Product Manager will lead the analysis, evolution and promotion of the Landmark Group’s newly designed or redesigned web products.
Key areas of responsibility
• Drive the complete product development cycle of strategy, production, usability testing, and implementation
• Analyze the performance of existing web products and features, recommend improvements and drive implementation from start to finish
• Define business and functional requirements for feature or enhancement requests and create clear and accurate product documentation
• Define product road maps - Identify and prioritize new site features and enhancements based on user needs and company strategy, schedule feature and enhancement releases accordingly
• Manage release versions and communicate release notes to concerned stakeholders
• Promote products through online marketing initiatives – facilitate existing campaigns, analyze campaign results, determine effective promotion strategies, refine online marketing plans and lead accordingly
• Partner with design and development resources to successfully implement product change, features or enhancements.
• Liaison between partners and business stakeholders.
• Work closely with the design and development teams to explain requirements of new features and change requests for current features.
• Mentor product managers and grow the product management team as required.
• Conduct periodic product update meetings to determine progress, problems & projections; update the web and management teams accordingly
• Provide product training and ongoing support for the team
Qualifications
• A minimum of 7 years experience with at least 5 years experience as a product manager for a consumer-facing website
• Demonstrated experience building innovative web product solutions
• Demonstrated experience managing online products and projects
• Demonstrated ability to lead and work with a team
• Demonstrated experience in gathering product requirements and successfully implementing them as planned.
• Customer focused approach to solutions
• Ability to comfortably manage relationships with multiple vendors
• Ability to comfortably manage multiple products
• Excellent communication skills – both written and verbal
• Excellent presentation skills
• Quantitative analytical abilities
• Strong organizational skills
• BA/BS in an Information Systems or Computer Science field. (MSIM or MBA is a plus).
Skills
Who You Are
You're a strategic and innovative web professional with a track record of analyzing, evolving and growing great web products and features. You're crazy curious about how a web product is performing, what's driving it and what's not and therefore what the focus needs to be on. You traverse the business, design and development realms with aplomb and understand the subtleties involved in combining them to deliver user-friendly web experiences. Your communication skills are top-drawer and you know how to translate user and business needs into workable and effective product solutions.
Senior Manager - User Experience (UX) Design at Landmark Group
Job Description
Key areas of responsibility
-Drive the complete product development cycle of strategy, production, usability testing, and implementation
-Analyze the performance of existing web products and features, recommend
improvements and drive implementation from start to finish
-Define business and functional requirements for feature or enhancement requests and create clear and accurate product documentation
-Define product road maps - Identify and prioritize new site features and enhancements based on user needs and company strategy, schedule feature and enhancement releases accordingly
-Manage release versions and communicate release notes to concerned stakeholders
-Promote products through online marketing initiatives – facilitate existing campaigns, analyze campaign results, determine effective promotion strategies, refine online marketing plans and lead accordingly
-Partner with design and development resources to successfully implement product change, features or enhancements
-Liaison between partners and business stakeholders
-Work closely with the design and development teams to explain requirements of new features and change requests for current features
-Mentor product managers and grow the product management team as required
-Conduct periodic product update meetings to determine progress, problems &
projections; update the web and management teams accordingly
-Provide product training and ongoing support for the team
Qualifications
-A minimum of 7 years experience with at least 5 years experience as a product
manager for a consumer-facing website
-Demonstrated experience building innovative web product solutions
-Demonstrated experience managing online products and projects
-Demonstrated ability to lead and work with a team
-Demonstrated experience in gathering product requirements and successfully
implementing them as planned
-Customer focused approach to solutions
-Ability to comfortably manage relationships with multiple vendors
-Ability to comfortably manage multiple products
-Quantitative analytical abilities
-Strong organizational skills
-BA/BS in an Information Systems or Computer Science field (MSIM or MBA is a
plus)
Skills
Who You Are
You're a strategic and innovative web professional with a track record of analyzing, evolving and growing great web products and features. You're crazy curious about how a web product is performing, what's driving it and what's not, and therefore what the focus needs to be on. You traverse the business, design and development realms with aplomb and understand the subtleties involved in combining them to deliver user-friendly web experiences. Your communication skills are top-drawer and you know how to translate user and business needs into workable and effective product solutions.
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