Leather Goods & Accessories Collection Merchandiser

About LOEWE

Created in Spain in 1846, LOEWE approaches 180 years as one of the world’s major luxury houses. Now under the Creative Direction of Jack McCollough and Lazaro Hernandez, the brand presents itself to the world as a house focused on craft and culture, evidenced through an intellectual yet playful approach to fashion, bold and vibrant Spanish lifestyle, and unmatched expertise with leather.

LOEWE has a rich legacy of craftsmanship dating back to its beginnings as a collective workshop and has long valued artisanal techniques in its approach to design and manufacture. These core values are reflected in the brand’s belief in the importance of craft in today’s culture, its modern interpretations of historical artistic achievements and its commitment to supporting contemporary art, craft and culture around the world.

At LOEWE, we value the uniqueness of our clients and our teams, whoever and wherever they are. We are committed to a culture that welcomes all genders, ethnicities, socioeconomic backgrounds, and abilities, including people with disabilities of all types. Our aim is for everyone to feel valued, included and empowered to contribute their best.

The Role

Role: Leather Goods & Accessories Collection Merchandiser

Reports to: Collection group Merchandising Manager

Location: Paris

Permanent contract

Main Responsibilities

Contribute to the LG Accessories & Jewellery briefs and collection plans:

• Defining requests and needs based on qualitative inputs (collection strategy, competitive analysis, market feedbacks), as well as on quantitative analysis (sell‑in sell‑out analyses, sales plan and ambitions)
• Consolidate historical collection sizing as a reference for future developments
• Build competitor's benchmark analyses

Follow‑up the development of the collection:

• Working hand in hand with design and development teams
• Monitoring the size of the collection and the needs
• Prepare the documents and tools for the monitoring of the collection (Overviews, Collection Plan, Line List, Price List, Samples review ..)
• Consolidate protos launches and following up with development teams status of newness throughout development process
• Ensure samples follow up (fittings and editing needs, collection reviews etc)
• Monitor costs throughout the whole development giving target prices and work with the teams to reach the target margins
• Consolidate PER/CO list, ensuring system is updated in a timely manner
• Ensure timings are respected and raise alerts when needed

Ensure all activities are properly performed in view of the buying session:

• Organize and prepare photo shooting, training and all documents needed for the buying session
• Revise in detail the information on PLM (names, descriptions, prices etc) and share the Line List
• Follow up closely the buying session, communicating updates and changes, and provide necessary data and support to Retail and Wholesale teams throughout the sales campaign.

Competition active follow up

• Consolidating competition overviews on each new collection launch
• Maintain a competitors pricing database
• Share main new launches & prepare fashion weeks recaps

Give support to all teams for everything that is product related:

• Work with marketing and PR team providing the right product content and ensure the images and descriptions are correct
• Work with copy to give product highlight and revise web descriptions before publishing the collection

Profile

What is important for the role:

• 2+ years of experience in fashion merchandising/product development
• High product sensivity, attentive to detail
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills combined with a strong drive
• Excellent analytical & presentation skills
• Proficient in MS Office Applications and advanced in Excel
• Excellent command in English

Encouraging diversity in all its forms, LOEWE is committed to the employment of people with disabilities.

We celebrate diversity and are committed to create and foster an inclusive environment for all.