PLM, Apparel - Team Sports Uniforms

Job Description

Under Armour is the chosen brand of this generation of athletes... and the athletes of tomorrow. We're about performance - in training and on game day, in blistering heat and bitter cold. Whatever the conditions, whatever the sport, Under Armour delivers the advantage athletes have come to demand.
That demand has created an environment of growth. An environment where building a great team is vital. An environment where doing whatever it takes is the baseline and going above and beyond to protect the Brand is commonplace.
The world's hungriest athletes live by a code, a pledge to themselves and everyone else: Protect This House... I Will. Our goal is to Build A Great Team! Will YOU...Protect This House?!

POSITION SUMMARY:

This role will create and drive the long-term strategic vision and plan for Team Uniforms, with a sharp focus on building the most innovative, consumer-centric product in the industry. Daily work will revolve around managing the full product life cycle - from seasonal strategy and line planning, through design and development process, to production and delivery. In addition, research of markets and cross-functional collaboration (design, tech design, production, sports marketing, sales, etc.) will be expected to drive athlete needs and insights into commercialized assortments.

ESSENTIAL DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Build and manage the Women’s uniform business from concept to commercialization. This is inclusive of, but not limited to writing briefs, managing integrity of all data inputs, working collaboratively with design and tech design to bring product to market on time and at cost, etc.
• Be the Consumer and sport expert – voice of the consumer. Be the lead POV on category, influencing category direction as the product and consumer advocate.
• Create the strategic vision and plan for the category. Align on product needs required to service different and unique profit and promotional channels.
• Define seasonal product assortment strategy and roadmap. Actively contribute to overall long-range product strategy with focus on line architecture, lifecycle management, and pricing strategies.
• Manage product, assortment, and pricing direction with third-party licensees by facilitating the relationships with product development and internal UA product creation teams.
• Partner with innovation and materials & trims teams to test and validate uniform concepts. Responsible for direction on wear testing concepts and maintaining material innovation pipeline for the category.
• Act as the product detail lead for activation of uniforms on the online uniform customizer
• Facilitate the data integrity and the system data load for the Women’s uniform category on uniform builder and Armoury.
• Manage photoshoots and maintain master data and catalog.
• Build and deliver presentations at all relevant milestones.
  

QUALIFICATIONS:

• Strong presentation, time management, collaboration and influencing skills. Team Player Attitude
• Required experience managing Full Product Life Cycle
• Strong Presentation and Collaboration skills
• Experience mining consumer insights & translating into product solutions

EDUCATION AND/OR EXPERIENCE:

• Bachelor's Degree
• Minimum 3 years of product line management – Uniforms experience highly preferred.

OTHER REQUIREMENTS:

• Travel – 30-35%, including both domestic and international

At Under Armour, we are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect where equal employment opportunities are available to all applicants and teammates without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy (including childbirth, lactation and related medical conditions), national origin, age, physical and mental disability, marital status, sexual orientation, gender identity, gender expression, genetic information (including characteristics and testing), military and veteran status, and any other characteristic protected by applicable law. Under Armour believes that diversity and inclusion among our teammates is critical to our success as a global company, and we seek to recruit, develop and retain the most talented people from a diverse candidate pool.