Responsibilities

• Seasonal Product Management: Manage assigned Accessories products from seasonal planning and brief creation through commercialization, launch, and lifecycle management.
• Product Briefing: Create and maintain product briefs, line plans, range tools, and seasonal documentation covering consumer needs, product benefits, price points, margin expectations, timing, and competitive context.
• Range Planning: Support seasonal range architecture, assortment recommendations, article planning, and product lifecycle decisions within the approved category strategy.
• Consumer and Market Insights: Translate consumer, athlete, account, competitive, and Market insights into actionable product recommendations for assigned categories.
• Line Optimization: Identify assortment gaps, product duplication, pricing opportunities, and product risks to support category reviews and range productivity.
• Product Creation: Partner with Accessories Design, Product Development, and Materials Development throughout the product creation process to deliver against approved briefs and seasonal objectives.
• Product Execution: Coordinate decisions across product features, dimensions, construction, materials, colors, graphics, packaging, and specifications for assigned products.
• Product Evaluation: Participate in concept reviews, sample evaluations, material selections, wear or use testing, and product modifications to support product quality and performance.
• Milestone Readiness: Own assigned milestone deliverables and ensure product briefs, range plans, samples, imagery, system data, and product information are complete, accurate, and delivered on time.
• Risk Management: Track product progress against the seasonal calendar and proactively identify cost, quality, sourcing, capacity, timing, and commercialization risks.

Requirements

• University degree in Business, Marketing, Product Management, Merchandising, or a related field, or equivalent professional experience.
• 4+ years of relevant experience in Product Marketing, Merchandising, Product Creation, or a related function.
• Demonstrated experience managing assigned products through a seasonal creation or commercialization process.
• Experience working cross-functionally with Design and Product Development teams.
• Strong product marketing, merchandising, or product creation capabilities.
• Working knowledge of product briefs, line planning, range architecture, pricing, margin, and product lifecycle management.
• Strong organizational and project management skills with a high level of attention to product-data accuracy.
• Ability to work hands-on across Design, Product Development, Materials Development, Sourcing, and Commercial teams.
• Analytical capability with the ability to interpret consumer, competitive, and commercial information and translate insights into product recommendations.
• Strong written, verbal, and presentation communication skills.

Preferred

• Experience in golf, sporting goods, bags, gloves, accessories, or related soft goods.
• Knowledge of golf bags, gloves, accessories, materials, construction, and manufacturing processes.
• Experience partnering with Materials Development, Sourcing, Quality, Supply Chain, or manufacturing teams.
• Experience supporting seasonal range architecture, assortment planning, pricing, margin, and product lifecycle decisions.
• Experience gathering and translating consumer, athlete, account, or Market feedback into product recommendations.
• Passion for golf, sport, and consumer products.

Benefits

• Comprehensive medical coverage including HSA with employer funding or FSA options, dental, vision, and prescription plans.
• Adoption, surrogate, and fertility support programs.
• Short and long term disability coverage.
• Basic life and AD and D insurance with supplemental employee paid options.
• 401(k) plan and Stock Purchase Plan with employer match or applicable adidas contributions.
• Education assistance for eligible full time employees.
• Paid parental and other eligible leave programs.
• Flexible Time Off accrued at 0.4388 hours per day for employees with less than five years of service, increasing with tenure.
• Twelve Company-Designated paid holidays, including a Floating Holiday, plus milestone Service Time Off for eligible employees.
• Employee product discounts and access to wellness and Employee Assistance programs.