Offre d'emploi Chef de Produit Senior - Woven

A la croisée de la mode et du sport, Lacoste crée et libère le mouvement. A la fois universelle et intemporelle, la marque transcende les cultures et les générations, érigeant le crocodile en signe de ralliement.

Marque française iconique présente dans près de 100 pays, Lacoste se distingue notamment par son savoir-faire unique dont est empreint chacun de ses métiers, de la confection à la distribution omnicanale.
Chez Lacoste, l'élégance va au-delà du style. Cette élégance guide l'ensemble de ses actions et de ses engagements, sociétaux et environnementaux.

Travailler chez Lacoste, c'est appartenir à une communauté de 8500 collaborateurs déterminés à construire l'avenir. Engagée à faire de l'égalité des chances une réalité et à révéler les potentiels, l'entreprise rassemble des talents de tous horizons, quelles que soient leurs différences.

Lacoste est l'une des marques inspirantes, animées par des équipes passionnées du groupe MF Brands, aux côtés de Aigle, Gant et Tecnifibre.

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: Strongly contributes 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

* Minimum10 years experience
* Flexible, autonomous, organized, and able to work in a fast-paced environment
* Demonstrating rigor, dynamism, and a proactive attitude
* Cross-functional management: able to collaborate with different profiles, trades, and satellite departments. Having a holistic view of working with other categories of the collection
* Ability to take initiatives and prioritize work tasks
* Fluent in English (written and spoken)
* Strong sensitivity for the product or the fashion universe
* Business-oriented, combining a curious mindset with a creative approach to problem-solving