上海招聘

SUMMARY
The Assistant Category Manager coordinates, communicates and manages the priorities of assigned categories of responsibility, to support category growth and sales performance measures for the global brands of Bullet, Leed’s and Avenue.

FUNDAMENTAL DUTIES
? Communicates and coordinates all phases of the development cycle as applies to duties and product development time and action of the product launch. This includes and supports product design and development through catalog launch and delivery
? Analyzes and reports on sales and market trends. React to these trends and apply the findings to development plans.
? Ensures On time delivery of product and supporting product information to internal and cross-functional departments as applies to duties and product development time and action of product launch
? Maintains sales and margin targets set for appointed categories
? Manages duties and priorities of product launch as applies to product development time and action calendar.
? Collaborates with multiple cross functional teams on critical product development launch dates and communication.
? Communicates to Overseas Merchandisers design PDFs and revisions, FOB targets and distributor pricing, materials, colors, packaging, production time, ETD’s, maker minimums, testing/engineering - concerns/solutions and sample follow-up as applies to the product development launch
? Communicates with design team on product development design, revisions and priorities as applies to product development launch for Leed’s and Avenue. This includes driving the revision meetings, process and communication to Overseas Merchandisers
? Updates Sku plan and product management lifetime system for Leeds, Bullet and Avenue
? Closely collaborates with marketing team on effectively bringing new product to market and maximize marketing opportunities with existing product for Bullet, Leed’s and Avenue
? Coordinates with Compliance manager on HTS information and customs compliance on current product development launch and inline concerns for Leed’s, Bullet and Avenue
? Coordinates with engineering and production control on all product testing/decorating approvals and fixture approvals of new products for Bullet, Leed’s and Avenue. Communicate approvals and or concerns/solutions to Overseas Merchant Team for all global brands
? Manages and coordinates product finalization for product launch for all global brands.
o Product PO ready: FOB and EQP finalization, testing/decorating approval, product finalization forms, product approval sign off for Overseas Merchandisers, item naming and numbering, and brand finalization and approvals.
o Sample maintenance and tracking: PD reference, photo-shoot, sales/marketing, QA, product training and fixture samples.
o Marketing support: PIS data and product information entry, product copy and proofing, photo-shoot hand off.
o Pricing: Support entry for pricing schedules and MOQ information.
o Execute product training with multiple cross functional groups on new product
? Researches and reviews by category/item to ensure that pricing and trend positioning of categories and items is consistent with Leed’s, Bullet and Avenue brand strategy
? Presents new product strategies and feature-benefits to large sales oriented audience
? Supports and communicates cross-functional departments (QA, Production, Product Development) to resolve product issues through accurate product information. This includes inline spec revision communication
? Adheres to product launch timeline and action plans

SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE
? Must have strong analytical skill set and ability to effectively analyze sales data
? Must have exceptional organizational skills
? Must be able to multi-task under stringent deadlines
? Self-directed, with ability to work independently
? Computer literate in Word, Excel, PowerPoint
? Exceptional written, oral and presentation skills (English)
? Exhibit high levels of flexibility and professionalism in extremely fast-paced environment
? Ability to influence and work through cross-functional teams without formal authority

EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE
? Bachelor’s degree in marketing, communications or merchandising, or a similar program of study
? One to three years experience in marketing, product development or communications preferred

TRAVEL REQUIREMENTS
? Domestic and international travel may be required

宝礼行集团是一家总部在美国宾夕法尼亚州新肯辛顿的跨国企业，在礼品和推广产品领域居于世界领先地位，产品销往世界100多个国家。宝礼行早在1994年就进入了中国市场，目前已经在上海、深圳、香港等地开设办公室，员工共计200多人。随着企业规模的不断扩大，如何吸引并激励优秀的管理和技术人才成为宝礼行面临的挑战。在此背景下，宝礼行开展创新探索，率先实行灵活工作制、增加员工福利年休假等措施，极大地调动了员工的积极性。

Polyconcept Group is a multinational company headquartered in New Kensington, Pennsylvania, USA. It is a world leader in gifts and promotional products. Its products are sold in more than 100 countries. Polyconcept Group entered the Chinese market as early as 1994, and has opened offices in Shanghai, Shenzhen,Hongkong with a total of more than 200 employees. With the continuous expansion of business, how to attract and motivate excellent management and chnical personnel is a challenge to Polyconcept. Against this backdrop, Polyconcept implemented its explorations and novations, took the lead in implementing flexible work system, increased employee welfare annual leave and other measures, which have greatly motivated the employees.

Take the most common working hours of employees for example. Most companies now work “9:00am to 5:00pm”. However,the "one-fits-all" working hours are not suitable for all employees. Furthermore, taking into account daily traffic during rush hours, the traditional “9:00am to 5:00pm” working hours cannot meet the actual needs of enterprises and employees. In November 2018, as initiated    by Polyconcept management, the company began to adopt flexible working hour system. Employees can enjoy flexibility to arrange their office hours, no longer subject to the "9:00am to 5:00pm" restrictions. This "flexible working system" is still very rare in the current market.

Why flexible working system? Mr. Nicolas Villemonteix, Polyconcept China’s Chief Executive Officer,    said: “Flexible work system offers employees greater freedom to choose how they work, giving them more flexibility to do their work and take care of their personal lives. Through the flexible work system, not only to achieve a change in the way of    work, but also to    promote the company's new culture    (i.e. performance-driven), thereby stimulating more productivity and creativity. Modern IT technology is sufficient to support this new approach, what we lack is the corresponding company culture”.

Today, more and more enterprises put stimulating the creativity of employees in the first place in talent management. In February 2019, PricewaterhouseCoopers announced the launch of "WeFlex" (flexible work) in Hong Kong, Macau and mainland China, allowing employees greater flexibility in working hours. In other countries, Barclays Bank, Telstra and other companies are also the first to implement flexible work. But in reality, many enterprises still have doubts about whether flexible work system can achieve the desired results, such as how to organize team work, how to assess employees, deal with staff absence, etc. At the beginning of the implementation, Polyconcept also    anticipated the possible challenges and prepared corresponding solutions, including soliciting employees' opinions, adopting supporting IT facilities for time management,etc.Flexible working system not only gives employees some flexibility, but also ensures that they work in the office for a relatively fixed period of time in order to ensure teamwork and communication.The employees' working hours are counted weekly to make sure there is no absences. At the same time, employees will not work more hours per day or per week than the corresponding limit of labor law.

“After the introduction of flexible working system, it has been warmly welcomed by everyone. We will continue to refine the system and explore ways to increase employees’ satisfaction and attract more talents", said by Mr. Edwin Eckhardt, director of Human Resources at    Polyconcept. The company will also increase the welfare annual leave for employees, in order to create a flexible working environment, the company has recently adopted 4 stray cats in Shanghai and Shenzhen office, which is well received by our employees, and in the future will also anticipate a more healthy, humanized work and communication.

Polyconcept is the global leader in the promotional products industry with 38 own offices and 52 legal entities, staffed by over 3,000 dedicated staff on 5 continents. With headquarters in USA, we deliver over 1 million orders annually and our 2010 sales are in excess of USD 1.5 Billion. We are now looking for excellent candidates with motivation to grow with us in Shanghai, Shenzhen, Hongkong and all over the world.

Main business: Written and stationery, apparel, bags, electronic products, drinkware, gifts.