The Job

Our Product Fanwear team is looking for a Junior Product Manager Football. The Junior Product Manager Football supports the entire Product & Licensing team with the objective to support collections that meet commercial market requirements and are aligned with the stichd strategy. You assist in managing the product set up in PLM and help linking internal processes and creative teams ensuring set timelines are met.

Your Mission

•   You support the Product Manager Football in the product-lifecycle-management;
•   You liaise with the Product Manager Football to manage the product creation process from PUMA;
•   You support in managing the critical path for assigned collections / products, ensure systems are accurately maintained, and meeting preparation is executed properly;
•   You assist in monitoring deadlines and support in the cross functional communication with all key stakeholders (Sourcing, Merchandising, Supply Chain, Design, Sales, Data Management, and Marketing);
•   You support in managing, maintaining, and distributing all data of assigned product lines. Ensuring correct and on time input in PLM Product Lifecycle Management) and ERP system;
•   You develop an understanding of consumer needs and market trends through research and analyzing data;
•   You support in managing samples required internally and for our marketing plans.
•   You will fully support the Product Manager Football with all kinds of other supporting activities and system work;
•   Other occurring relevant activities and/or projects.

Your Talent

•   Bachelor education in Business, Marketing, Sports Management, or comparable fields;
•   1-3 years of experience in sports industry, working with global brands associated with Team sports;
•   Preferably knowledgeable in Licensing;
•   Flexible team player with an open mindset, strong organizational skills, analytical, well-structured with the ability to prioritize;
•   Very good verbal communication skills as well as excellent knowledge of the English language (written and spoken);
•   Excellent MS-Office skills (Excel, Word, PowerPoint) and PLM.

We Offer

•   Our salaries are based on 38 hours per week, but fulltime work is 40 hours per week. Instead, you choose between a lot of holidays; 37 per year ór choose for a 40-hour salary per month with still 25 holidays. You can switch every six months;
•   Annual bonus scheme;
•   New hires (introduction) days with all new colleagues from all our global offices;
•   Great offer of e-learnings and a training offer for personal development;
•   Enough free fruit for you daily vitamins;
•   Provided lunch for low cost;
•   Choose between lease-bike, NS Business Card or travel by car for € 0,23 per km (>10km).
•   8% holiday allowance, employee insurances and a good pension scheme;
•   Employee discount on the PUMA, Levi’s, Fuelforfans and BMW Lifestyle websites;
•   Hybrid working. On fulltime basis 3 days in the office and 2 days at home (incl. allowance for home working);
•   Flexible working hours, modern workspace and a good working atmosphere;
•   International working environment with colleagues of more than 50 different nationalities;
•   Wellbeing activities (f.e. yoga and bootcamp);
•   Community involvement (stichd impact tool);
•   stichd drinks 5/6x per year in the city center of Den Bosch;
•   Work hard, play hard. Our stichd-events are legendary.

About Us

As a family of experts - currently employing over 750 people - we focus on creating exceptional products within our categories. From branded socks and underwear to fashionable swimwear and iconic fanwear, we are proud to Consciously Craft Convenience for customers and consumers.

Partnering with global A-list brands our current brand portfolio includes PUMA, Tommy Hilfiger, Levi’s, Head and Calvin Klein for our Essentials. For our Fanwear business: Ayrton Senna, BMW Motorsport, Formula 1, Formula E, Mercedes F1 Team, Williams Racing, Porsche Motorsport, Scuderia Ferrari F1 Team, Aston Martin F1 Team and Manchester City Football Club. And for our Lifestyle business: BMW Lifestyle.

Through weaving together Design, Sales, Logistics, Marketing and Digital, we create a seamless one-stop-shop environment. A member of the PUMA Group, stichd is a licensee with its head office located in ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands. In addition, stichd has a global presence with sales offices throughout Europe, China, in Southeast Asia and North America. The company’s warehousing and logistics are in Tilburg, Netherlands, Mexico City, Malaysia and the United States of America.

If you’re interested in this position and meet the requirements, click 'Apply' now!

Acquisition as a result of vacancies is not appreciated.

stichd provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, colour, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at stichd and PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.

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Junior Product Manager Football