EMEA Footwear Product Coordinator (Football, Futsal, Rugby, Golf)

About the job

In this role you contribute to growth and profitability of EMEA Performance (Football, Futsal, Rugby, Golf) business. As a member of the global team, assist in creating Mizuno brand products & strategies that appeals to a worldwide consumer.

Key tasks and responsibilities:

• Understand consumer tendencies, requirements, competitor situations and directions.

• Analyse Mizuno EMEA’s sales, strengths, weaknesses, opportunities and threats.

• Alignment meetings with headquarters (HQ) in Japan to discuss, plan and implement global strategies and directions.

• Create and develop Global/EMEA footwear product strategy.

• Working with headquarters (HQ) and create ideal products (technical function and aesthetics) and the product stories for both global and EMEA distributions.

• Assist footwear product manager to implement global product strategies / directions for growth and profitability into the EMEA business.

• Provide insight in creation of business plans with the strategies / directions and proactively propose sales, and marketing strategies / directions in the plans.

• Present the business plans to EMEA product manager and also to our clients.

• Present the products and the product stories to our clients attractively.

• Take responsibility to ensure targeted gross margins by paying careful attention to product costs, mold charges, landed costs, wholesale and retail prices.

• Creating reports and presentations to headquarters (HQ) and other regions to explain European market situation.

• Create and update product line up plan spreadsheets regularly. Keep all relevant departments informed when any changes happen.

• Manage wear test processes and provide feedback to headquarters (HQ).

• Manage sample order processes. Collect orders from regions and place the orders to headquarters (HQ), monitor sample orders schedules regularly and keep clients updated on sample deliveries.

• Work closely with EMEA Marketing, Sales, Export, Supply Chain and Apparel members to keep all parties updated with footwear related topics.

• Assist in the organization of the EMEA sales conference and key country meetings

• Manage team events that take place during these meetings.

About you

• Ability to act his/her own initiative.

• Knowledge of markets.

• Ability to analyze sales figures.

• Skill in thinking logically.

• Ability to act his / her own initiative.

• Ability to analyse sales and forecast figures.

• Ability to present confidently product category and business presentations.

• Educated to Graduate standard.

• Comprehensive understanding of global and European business.

• Advance level IT Skills (Illustrator, Photoshop, Powerpoint, Excel).

• Understanding of FW production and lead times.

• Relevant experience within the footwear and sporting goods industry.

• Strong communication, organizational, and presentation skills

• Understanding of footwear construction and material execution

• Full consciousness to meet deadlines.

• Skill in thinking logically.

• Fluent in English.

What we offer

• A dynamic role within a successful and established international Sports (and Golf) brand.

• A salary matching the level of the role

• A role for 40 hours per week, flexible working hours.

• Space for talent and personal development.

• International work environment with ambitious colleagues.

• Being part of a group of people who are working towards the same goal: grow the brand as big as possible, without losing the high-quality standards and philosophy out of sight!