Responsibilities

• Own the operating cadence of Merrell leadership team, including strategic planning, quarterly business reviews, and execution tracking.
• Partner with the leadership team to translate brand strategic priorities into clear plans, with defined owners, milestones, and metrics and serve as a connective tissue across the leadership team to ensure we move with speed and efficiency.
• Act as a strategic adviser to all brand leadership and global partners helping to develop and implement brand strategies and track execution against top strategic initiatives and proactively flag risks, dependencies, or misalignment.
• Create and implement annual business priorities, ensuring alignment, progress and delivery of the priorities.
• Provides strategic end-to-end project management to lead complex, cross-functional projects that advance key brand initiatives with the ability to pivot based on evolving opportunities and challenges while engaging stakeholders across the portfolio.
• Drive change initiatives that improve speed, decision quality, and cross-functional effectiveness.
• Prepare the Brand President for important meetings by developing and owning the production of concise briefs, key information and analysis, and high-quality presentations and reports, including Board materials, Analyst meetings, earnings calls, and Distributor Partner meetings.
• Own the process, cadence, and cross-functional integration of the global brand Go-to-Market strategy in partnership with Merchandising, Marketing, and Commercial teams.
• Utilize and interpret data to provide analytical recommendations to shape strategies and optimize brand performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor 9s degree required 10+ years of strategy, business operations, consulting, marketing, or project management roles
• Excellent strategic mindset with strong commercial acumen
• Experience working closely with senior executives and navigating complex organizations, with exposure to high-stakes decision-making
• Proven track record of working a dynamic fast-paced environment across multiple time horizons
• Strong business and financial acumen; expert with data and metrics
• Exceptional communication and presentation skills, with ability to synthesize complex data and information into clear insights and actions and attention to detail
• Highly collaborative and able to work in global matrix environment
• High judgment, discretion, and emotional intelligence
• Able to operate effectively with influence rather than authority on matters of significance, with orientation toward impact, not visibility
• Comfortable operating with ambiguity and in fast-changing environments
• Proactive and anticipates needs before they arise with a bias for action with strong follow-through
• Exceptional ability to produce and present concise, executive-ready analyses and presentations that drive decisions utilizing Microsoft office (especially PowerPoint, Excel, and Copilot)
• Ability to invoke innovative concepts and creatively solve problems