
Product Manager - Licensed Watches
Role: Product Manager – Licensed Watches
Brand: Nixon
Location: Encinitas, CA
Summary: The PM – Licensed Watches is responsible for the design, development and production of market leading watches to drive global revenue growth and profitability aligned with strategic goals.
Responsibilities:
- Establish and present seasonal direction; develop briefs and inspiration boards; plan and execute balanced and profitable assortments leveraging relevant sales data and market comparisons to achieve category growth expectations.
- Establish and maintain the feedback process for collecting input from all stakeholders including the licensing Brand Management Team, Sales and Marketing Teams, DP, VP Product, external and internal product teams.
- Follow schedules for design and development based on master plan schedule set by DP.
- Communicate with the vendor development teams to effectively monitor product development to assure timely delivery of prototypes, photo samples, sales samples and production.
- Effectively lead vendor development teams to deliver quality products, on time at out target price.
- Manage internal and external design resources to effectively bring products to life.
- Ensure achievement of margin targets through initiating, negotiating and confirming final pricing with all vendors.
- Create development and production cost break down sheets to forecast costs of new tooling or technology required to bring products to market.
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