The ideal candidate
Experience
• Typically brings 12+ years of progressive experience in product strategy, business or brand strategy, strategic planning, business transformation, management consulting or a related discipline, including at least 7 years of managerial experience leading senior professionals and leaders within complex global organizations.
• Experience within the apparel, footwear, retail or broader consumer goods industry is strongly preferred; experience gained within a leading global strategy or management consulting firm is considered a strong advantage.
• Proven experience defining and leading long-term product, category, portfolio or brand strategies and multi-year strategic planning that drive sustainable business growth, category acceleration or enterprise transformation.
• Significant people-leadership experience, including setting portfolio ownership, managing performance, building leadership capability and developing succession across a senior professional team.
• Strong commercial, consumer and product acumen, with the ability to integrate market, competitive, operational and financial insights into clear strategic recommendations, priorities and resource choices.
• Proven ability to integrate multiple strategic portfolios, establish effective governance and performance oversight, and lead execution through senior professionals rather than retaining recurring ownership of delegable analysis or deliverables.
• Strong executive communication and influencing capability, with the ability to simplify complex topics, develop compelling strategic narratives, constructively challenge assumptions and negotiate critical choices with senior leaders.
• Demonstrates sound judgment and organizational leadership through major change, creating clarity from ambiguity, aligning senior stakeholders around evolving priorities, and balancing strategic ambition, business value, dependencies, organizational capability and sustainable delivery while accepting accountability for difficult sequencing and prioritization decisions.
• Advanced proficiency in PowerPoint and Excel, with the ability to challenge and guide sophisticated analysis, financial modelling and executive storytelling produced by the team.
• Fluent in written and spoken English, with the ability to influence and build alignment across functions, regions and leadership levels.
• Holds a Master’s degree in Business, Strategy, Finance, Marketing or a related discipline, or the equivalent in relevant experience; an MBA is preferred.