Business Development Director (Merchandise)
New York
Operations – Projects /
Full-time /
Hypebeast Ltd. started from a sneaker website founded by Kevin Ma in 2005 to a publicly listed media company in 2016. With a total reach of over 44.6M users across all platforms, The media group boasts a global readership across Asia Pacific, North America, Europe and more, with the flagship platform available in five languages. The group has expanded its publishing brands to a wider scope in recent years, encompassing Hypebeast and its multiple content distribution platforms, HBX, our e-commerce and retail platform, and Hypemaker, our global agency.
Hypebeast Ltd. has been featured in Forbes’ “Asia’s 200 Best Under A Billion” in 2020.
Responsibilities:
- The duties can be separated into four main parts.
- Set and lead the business strategy, objectives, initiatives and development for the merchandise department.
- Build the product strategy and roadmap that drives innovation to the company and align to overall business growth opportunities.
- Oversee budget, revenue forecasting and cost management with the internal project team.
- Identity and drive any partnership and business opportunities that will drive the business growth of the merchandise department.
- Build, structure and train the product team that align to the overall product strategy and roadmap.
- Assist director reports with ongoing prioritization and resource allocation to ensure that crucial business initiatives are delivered.
- Create clear and measurable goals and objectives for the team related to the creation of timely, high quality products that support business objectives.
- Define clear outcomes, business targets and actionable recommendations for all the merchandise projects.
- Work closely with global creative director, project team, internal and external stakeholders, vendors to drive project direction, ideation process, business planning to delivery.
- Research and understand the cross-functional implications of business, product and project decisions and ensure the critical business objectives are considered.
- Ensure that product specifications meet high standards and business goals for quality before approval and launch, guide the product managers to ensure the product specifications are well understood.
- Ensure that all relevant parties and key stakeholders are informed of product status from concept through launch.
- Work closely with project team and marketing plan to ideate, plan and execute the go to market strategy to ensure good business performance for all the merchandise projects.
Merchandise strategic planning & business development
Business operations management
Product development
Go to Market Strategy planning
Requirements:
- Bachelor degree in business or relevant field.
- 8+ years of working with business, creative, marketing and production team.
- Entrepreneurial mix of visionary strategy development.
- Exceptional business development, operations and people management skills.
- Good understanding of our industry and culture.
- Strong Portfolio of products and business development.
- Good understanding of branding and marketing.
- Excellent communication skills and stakeholder management skills.
- Have a thorough understanding of creative, branding and production process.
- Be self-motivated and hardworking, able to work independently both effectively and efficiently.
If you think you’ve got what it takes, please provide your cover letter, CV, and expected salary.
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