(Senior) Manager Category Planning Global E-Commerce

YOUR MISSION

• Build and maintain global master category templates and pages (CLPs), PLPs, and PDP aligned to seasonal priorities, franchise products and brand narratives

• Own the category’s “always-on” experience (layouts, components, banners, shoe finder, shop the look, SEO blogs)

• Pre‑construct scalable CMS components per UDS and organize assets in DAM/CMS for easy regional duplication

• Partner with Global Creative & Category Merch to integrate seasonal and campaign assets, refreshing templates for major global drops (e.g., World Cup, Football boot launches, Running seasonal packs)

• Pre‑assemble campaign entry points, coordinate global language requests, and ensure smooth handover to regional pods

• Provide clear “what can be edited locally” guidance, walkthroughs, and documentation for each seasonal update

• Create and QA global category templates (mobile responsiveness, image quality, SEO tagging)

• Review analytics to identify weak components, drop-offs, or content gaps

• Recommend structural improvements to the CMS team to enhance scalability

• Act as a senior point of reference within the Category Planning CoE, providing guidance, feedback and day-to-day support to junior planners and regional counterparts

• Support onboarding, capability building and best-practice sharing across the category community and contribute to ways of working that elevate planning quality, consistency and team effectiveness at scale.

YOUR TALENT

• Experience in CMS publishing (Sanity, SFCC Page Designer, SFCC BM and Magento)

• Understanding of merchandising flows (PDP/PLP logic, filters, product data)

• Comfortable reading wireframes and design specs (Figma preferred)

• SEO, metadata, and content tagging familiarity

• High attention to detail, strong communication & documentation skills

• Cross-functional collaboration with creative, tech, and merch teams

• Ability to manage multiple category calendars and deadlines

• 4-6 years of experience in eCommerce operations, Content or Category Management

• Experience in planning tools is a plus

• Category experience in footwear, apparel, or sports highly preferred, high interest in Sports and sporting goods.

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