Levi Strauss & Co.

Merchandising Lead

Levi Strauss & Co.  •  Seoul, KR (Onsite)  •  18 days ago
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Job Description

Performance & Market Insights:

  • Analyze weekly, monthly, and seasonal sales data to identify trends, opportunities, and risks, providing actionable insights to optimize product performance.
  • Actively participate to weekly xfunctional meeting driving
  • Present performance insights and commercial opportunities to Cluster merchants and Korea cross-functional teams and leadership, ensuring alignment with local market demands.
  • Maintain a strong market presence by continuously researching consumer preferences, competitor strategies, and emerging trends to accelerate business strategies.

Merchandising & Product Strategy:

  • Maintain alignment with the established product and pricing architecture to uphold brand positioning and value perception, ensuring a cohesive approach across markets within the cluster
  • Lead and coordinate the Korea merchandising brief across all channels, ensuring market-specific and data-driven insights inform decision-making.
  • Partner with North Asia Cluster Merchandising to review seasonal assortments, ensuring they align with Koreas business needs and making necessary adjustments for market relevance.
  • Ensure product sizing strategies meet Canadian consumer needs by working cross-functionally with the Korea Planning, Marketing, and Supply Chain teams
  • Drive in-season agility by identifying unique Korean market trends and executing reactive strategies, including chase and replenishment opportunities.
  • Drive key product presentations for Korea’s cross-functional teams at strategic milestones, ensuring alignment on product nuances, market priorities, and overarching merchandising strategies.
  • Represent merchandising in high-impact moments, including customer meetings, store leader engagements, and major product launches, to strengthen execution and market adoption.
  • Collaborate with BX (Brand Experience) and Korea Marketing partners to activate key product priorities, optimizing visibility and consumer engagement across the market.

Pricing & Promotion strategy:

  • Partner with Cluster Pricing to provide Korea-specific insights on pricing and promotional strategies, ensuring alignment with FX fluctuations, market positioning, and cluster dynamics while maintaining consistency with brand guardrails.
  • Support the execution of pricing strategies by providing feedback on local market trends and consumer behaviors, ensuring that pricing decisions made at the cluster level are effectively implemented and optimized for the Korean business.
  • Maintain alignment with the established product and pricing architecture to uphold brand positioning and value perception, ensuring a cohesive approach across markets within the cluster

Business Growth & Special Projects:

  • Drive Korea-specific special projects and initiatives, including partnerships with key retailers (e.g., Musinsa ) and localized merchandising opportunities.
  • Establish a strong merchandising presence in Korea through strategic leadership in key business conversations, cross-functional collaboration, and market visits

LOCATION

Korea, Seoul - Office

FULL TIME/PART TIME

Full time

Current LS&Co Employees, apply via your Workday account.

Levi Strauss & Co.

About Levi Strauss & Co.

You’re an original. So are we.

We’re a company of people who like to forge our own path. We invented the blue jean in 1873, and we reinvented khaki pants in 1986. We pioneered labor and environmental guidelines in manufacturing. And we work to build sustainability into everything we do.

We just might be the original startup. Our brands — Levi’s®, Beyond Yoga® and Levi Strauss Signature — stand for freedom and self-expression around the world. And for more than 170 years, we’ve used the strength of our brands to lead with our values and make an outsized impact on the world.

There’s plenty of room to make your mark here. We employ more than 15,000 people around the world, and this is a place where everyone contributes to the conversation.

Levi Strauss & Co. is an equal opportunity employer and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, national origin, disability status, protected veteran status or any other characteristic protected by law.

Industry
Fashion & Apparel
Company Size
10,000+ employees
Headquarters
San Francisco, California
Year Founded
Unknown
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