Hybrid Director, Footwear Product – SMU

at Reebok

• Job title: Director, Footwear Product – SMU
• Job type: Full Time
• Experience level: Lead
• Salary: Not specified
• Degree requirement: Bachelor's Degree
• Location requirements: Hybrid, Boston, United States

About the role

• Director of Footwear Product leading SMU Product Creation while collaborating with strategic partners for Reebok. Overseeing product management and team development in a hybrid work environment.

Responsibilities

• Drive growth with strategic partners domestically and internationally through SMU Product Creation across all categories and age groups
• Collaborate with sales and business planning teams to engage with accounts to develop and maintain partnerships that ensure Reebok's effective presence and presentation at retail
• Support sales and business planning teams with account pre-lines and previews
• Collaborate with inline product creation team to share key account wins and ensure feedback is executed in future ranges
• Ensure appropriate and correct brand positioning across all categories and age groups
• Create an effective work environment for the team across all cross-functional categories-product creation, business planning, sales, etc.
• Promote a high-performance culture by setting clear expectations and individual goals, and focus the team /
• organization on key drivers that impact success
• Build a high-performing team through development and day-to-day coaching of staff
• Be an advocate for the category both internally and externally to ensure that proper resources are garnered
• Ensure overall adherence to the product creation calendar and achievement of key milestones through critical decision making and leadership
• Resolve issues with the team relating to design, staff performance, or cross-functional problems
• Partner with cross-functional leaders to design, streamline and optimize processes and workflows to ensure quality of entire commercialization process
• Provide insight and analysis of consumer and marketing trends, competition, retail landscape, and cultural
• drivers affecting business dynamics
• Analyze and summarize internal and external data
• Analyze and prepare category business performance reports on a quarterly basis to present to Senior Leadership team

Requirements

• Minimum 10 years’ experience in footwear product management, at least 5 of which were in a management or leadership role.
• Knowledge of product creation process essential
• Bachelor’s degree in related field. MBA a plus.
• Ability to travel internationally
• Strong presentation skills (presenting to large groups expected)
• Ability to partner with, collaborate with, and influence internal and external business partners
• Strong influencing skills
• Strong collaboration skills
• Strong verbal/written communication and presentation skills
• Excellent verbal and written language skills in English
• Must be proficient in Microsoft Office products
• Experience in FlexPLM preferred
• Excellent analytical skills
• Be a leader to those in the department
• Provide prompt and constructive feedback, and assume a coaching role in order to support and inspire his/her cross functional team
• Ensure overall adherence to product creation calendar and achievement of key milestones through critical decision-making and leadership
• Tackle conflicts proactively and find constructive solutions together with his/her counterparts