Chef de Produit Senior - Woven H/F - 75

1. Product Strategy

- Defines the Strategic priorities for the Woven business (bottoms, outerwear and woven shirts) to drive image and growth in line with the Menswear trajectory business strategy.

- At brief stage, defines the seasonal key initiatives, the Fabrics & trims plan and the line plan.

- Defines the pricing strategy of his activity across the different product categories and monitors the upgrade & price stretching in collaboration with Merchandising

- Include in strategy the performance of key markets given by Merchandising

- Monitors competition performance analysis

- Coordinates with the Knit part to ensure the expression of the Lacoste Men Silhouette along the delivery flow

- Coordinates also with Womenswear and Sport to ensure consistency in offer, prices and silhouettes expressions in transversal capsules

- Coordinate the strategy and be the link with Development Platform: Stronglycontributes to the Sourcing strategy, suppliers' network and seasonal suppliers' allocations with Operations.

2. Product Development

- Manages the Product development with his direct team composed of Product managers and works in tandem with Design & tech design at each milestone:

o Product definition and specification with Design

o Product development in direct contact with suppliers (sketch hand offs, fittings)with Platform and suppliers

o Line editing with the Design & Merchandising team

o Responsible for achieving qualitative and costing/margin objectives in line with the Pricing strategy

- Delivers ok production' products meeting the Product development process and deadlines in collaboration with tech design team

- Ensures the data system management in PLM at each milestone of the Product development

3. Collection monitoring

- Offer: Recommends the collection structure (ref, skus) of his activity every season in order to develop the business while monitoring the productivity

- Finance: Strongly contributes to the seasonal margin targets definition and monitors them throughout the product development and the tiering strategy

- Coordination & process: Proactive contribution to improving process, end-to-end calendar and internal tools to get optimum collection monitoring

- Communication: be the representative of the collection and ensure on-time communication on collection process with Sourcing and Platforms

- Monitor collection in line with Sustainability targets of Lacoste

4. Promotion of the product strategy:

- Process implementation to monitor all sample requests intended for sales sessions or internal presentations

- Presentation of the collections and the product strategy for the season to the markets in plenary during showroom sessions.

- Product strategy presentation to key stakeholders (sourcing, marketing, VM, Ecommerce, etc.) to provide key product initiatives consistency and benefits to push

- Preparation of sales support materials (presentations & videos) for satellite teams.

- Writing product titles and descriptions for e-commerce.

5. Management and coordination of a team

- Management of 3 persons

- Daily cross-management of the studio, product technicians, and platform sourcing managers

- Onboarding of the different Lacoste teams and suppliers on various projects