Merchandising Manager, Outdoor Footwear

We need to output HTML fragment with sections: headings

for sections like About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule. We must include only sections with real content. The posting includes: description about company, job description, what makes this a great place to work & play (benefits), essential duties & responsibilities, qualifications, physical demands & working environment (maybe not needed). We should not repeat job title as heading. No Job ID. Remove boilerplate like EEO etc (none). Remove navigation etc. We need to preserve all substantive information. Use

for prose,

• for lists. We need to decide sections: maybe "About the role" (overview), "Responsibilities" (essential duties), "Qualifications" (qualifications, skills, abilities), "Benefits" (what makes this a great place to work & play). Possibly "Skills" could be part of qualifications. The instruction: use headings for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). We should include only those with real content. We have no explicit Pay or Schedule info (though hybrid work schedule mentioned under benefits). Schedule maybe we could include schedule info under Benefits? But they said only create Pay/Schedule/Benefits sections if posting actually states them. The posting mentions hybrid work schedule, half-day Fridays, etc. That's schedule info. Could we create a Schedule section? It says "Hybrid work schedule", "Half-day Fridays for 5 months of the year". That's schedule. So we could include a Schedule section. However they said prefer few substantive sections over many thin ones. Might combine schedule into Benefits? But they said Benefits, Pay, Schedule separate headings. Since we have schedule info, we could create a Schedule section. But we also have benefits info (PTO, holidays, employee discount, healthy lifestyle benefit, community engagement). So we could have Benefits and Schedule separate. Pay: not mentioned, so omit. Requirements: maybe we could have Requirements as a section separate from Qualifications? The posting has "Qualifications" heading with bullet list of qualifications, skills, abilities. Could treat that as Qualifications. Could also have Skills as separate but we can combine. We need to avoid filler like "commensurate with experience". Not present. We need to output only HTML fragment. Let's extract content: Company intro: "Amer Sports is a sporting goods company with internationally recognized brands including Salomon, Arc’teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic and Wilson. “The Mountain Sport Company”, Salomon was born in 1947 in the heart of the French Alps and the birthplace of modern alpinism. Salomon’s commitment to innovative design and passion for mountain sports created a vast range of revolutionary new concepts in bindings, boots, skis and apparel for both Alpine and Nordic skiing and brought innovative solutions to footwear, apparel and equipment for snowboarding, adventure racing, mountaineering, hiking, trail running, and many other sports. Through performance driven design, Salomon delivers innovation and progression to mountain sports; converting new ideas into action and expanding the limits of possibility. Salomon’s heritage, culture, and commitment are tied together by one simple concept: the world’s leading mountain people creating the world’s leading mountain products. Salomon is responsibly committed towards the outdoor through its sustainability program. Diversity is one of Salomon’s five values, therefore we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. Salomon is headquartered in Annecy, France." Then job description block: "POSITION TITLE: Merchandising Manager, Outdoor Footwear REPORTS TO: VP Ecomm BUSINESS AREA: Salomon North America, Footwear & Gear team, LOCATION: Ogden, UT As a member of the Footwear & Gear team, the Merchandising Manager leads the overall Footwear merchandising strategy for their Sport/Category in North America (US & Canada). This role works with the Footwear & Gear VP in North America, as well as the global merchandising and product teams in France to develop and implement meaningful assortments and merchandising plans by consumer and channel. This person also works closely with Sales & Marketing teams in North America on go to market strategies, tools, and activation on a seasonal basis." Then "WHAT MAKES THIS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK & PLAY:" bullet list. Then "ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES" with sub-bullets grouped under categories. Then "Qualifications" heading with bullet list. Then "PHYSICAL DEMANDS & WORKING ENVIRONMENT" with paragraphs. We need to include all substantive info. Should we include Physical Demands? It's substantive. Could be a section maybe "Working Environment" but not in list of headings. The allowed headings are limited to those examples; but we could still use other headings? The instruction: "use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It suggests we should use those headings for sections. It doesn't forbid other headings, but likely they expect only those. We could map Physical Demands to maybe "Requirements"? Not ideal. Could omit? But they said preserve ALL substantive information. So we need to include it somewhere. Perhaps we can include it under a

  without a heading, or under a generic

  like "Working Environment". But they said use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule). That could be interpreted as we should use those headings when we have those sections; but we could also use other headings if needed? The instruction: "use

  for section headings (e.g. About the role, Responsibilities, Requirements, Qualifications, Skills, Benefits, Pay, Schedule)." It gives examples but not exclusive. Safer to stick to those headings and incorporate physical demands into maybe "Requirements" or "Qualifications". However physical demands are not qualifications but could be considered requirements. We could create a "Requirements" section that includes both qualifications and physical demands. But we already have Qualifications section. Could combine Qualifications and Requirements? The instruction says we can have Requirements heading. We could put qualifications under Requirements, and maybe also include physical demands there. But we also have a separate "Qualifications" heading in the posting. Might be redundant. Better: Use headings: About the role (overview), Responsibilities (essential duties), Qualifications (skills, abilities, experience), Benefits (what makes this a great place to work & play), Schedule (hybrid work schedule, half-day Fridays). Physical demands could be placed under Qualifications or maybe under a separate "Requirements" heading. Since we have both Qualifications and Requirements as possible headings, we could split: Qualifications for experience/skills, Requirements for physical demands. But the posting's "Qualifications" includes skills, abilities, competencies. So we can put that under Qualifications. Physical demands we can put under Requirements. Thus sections: About the role, Responsibilities, Qualifications, Requirements, Benefits, Schedule. We must not create empty sections. Now craft HTML. We need to preserve all substantive info: include company intro, job location, reporting line, etc. Should we include that in About the role? Probably yes. Let's draft:

  About the role

  Amer Sports is a sporting goods company with internationally recognized brands including Salomon, Arc’teryx, Peak Performance, Atomic and Wilson. “The Mountain Sport Company”, Salomon was born in 1947 in the heart of the French Alps and the birthplace of modern alpinism. Salomon’s commitment to innovative design and passion for mountain sports created a vast range of revolutionary new concepts in bindings, boots, skis and apparel for both Alpine and Nordic skiing and brought innovative solutions to footwear, apparel and equipment for snowboarding, adventure racing, mountaineering, hiking, trail running, and many other sports. Through performance driven design, Salomon delivers innovation and progression to mountain sports; converting new ideas into action and expanding the limits of possibility. Salomon’s heritage, culture, and commitment are tied together by one simple concept: the world’s leading mountain people creating the world’s leading mountain products. Salomon is responsibly committed towards the outdoor through its sustainability program. Diversity is one of Salomon’s five values, therefore we are committed to creating an inclusive environment for all. Salomon is headquartered in Annecy, France.

  POSITION TITLE: Merchandising Manager, Outdoor Footwear REPORTS TO: VP Ecomm BUSINESS AREA: Salomon North America, Footwear & Gear team, LOCATION: Ogden, UT As a member of the Footwear & Gear team, the Merchandising Manager leads the overall Footwear merchandising strategy for their Sport/Category in North America (US & Canada). This role works with the Footwear & Gear VP in North America, as well as the global merchandising and product teams in France to develop and implement meaningful assortments and merchandising plans by consumer and channel. This person also works closely with Sales & Marketing teams in North America on go to market strategies, tools, and activation on a seasonal basis.

  That seems to duplicate the position title etc. But we are told not to repeat the job title as a heading, but we can include it in prose. It's okay. Now Responsibilities: list essential duties. We need to convert the bullet list under ESSENTIAL DUTIES & RESPONSIBILITIES into
  • . There are subheadings: Product Strategy & Merchandising, Business Planning & Financial Management, Consumer, Market & Performance Insights, Cross-Functional Collaboration. We could either keep those as headings inside the list? But we should use
    • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. The subheadings are not list items but categories. We could treat each category as a
    • with a heading? But instruction: use
      • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. It doesn't forbid adding headings inside list items. We could do:
        • Product Strategy & Merchandising
          • Develop and execute seasonal, annual, and long-term product strategies and merchandising plans for the Footwear category in North America.
          • Create market-relevant, consumer-driven assortments by sport, shopper profile, and distribution channel.
          • Identify gaps and opportunities within global merchandising plans and provide recommendations to the global product team to ensure market relevance for North America.
          • Partner with global merchandising teams to align category strategies with broader brand objectives.
          • Lead the presentation of category strategies, seasonal plans, new technologies, and key product initiatives at sales meetings, launches, and customer events.
          • Serve as the category product expert, delivering product training and education to internal and external stakeholders.
        ... etc. That seems okay. Now Qualifications: we have bullet list under Qualifications heading. We'll output as
        • . Now Requirements: physical demands & working environment. We'll turn that into a
          • list maybe with paragraphs. The physical demands section includes several sentences. We could make each sentence a list item or just a

            . Since it's not a list per se, but we can use

            . However instruction: use

            • for any list of duties/requirements/benefits. This is not a list but we can use

              . We'll just put as

              . Now Benefits: from WHAT MAKES THIS A GREAT PLACE TO WORK & PLAY: bullet list. Now Schedule: we have hybrid work schedule and half-day Fridays for 5 months of the year. Could also include maybe other schedule info? That's it. We'll put as

              • . Now ensure we don't include any boilerplate like "Reasonable accommodations may be made..." That's part of physical demands section; we should keep