Senior Product Manager

Acne Studios is a progressive luxury house and through collaboration and curiosity, we set high aspirations and strive for excellence. We value everyone’s contribution and embrace feedback to develop ourselves and others. We aim to minimise our environmental impact across all our operations and to address societal challenges in the way we conduct our business.

As Senior Product Manager for our women's wear woven category at our Stockholm Office, you will lead a team driving product development, ensuring quality, cost-efficiency and delivery across collections. The role requires strong leadership, supplier collaboration, sustainability and production excellence.

CULTURE OF COLLABORATION

We firmly believe that when you feel supported, included, and trusted, it enables you to enjoy your work and thrive in it. You will be a part of a team of colleagues with diverse roles and backgrounds, each with their unique skills and experiences.

WHAT YOU WILL DO

As Senior Product Manager for our women's wear woven category your main contribution will be to drive the product development process to meet business goals. You will report to RTW Development Director.

You will play a vital role in ensuring commercially successful and well-executed collections by:

• Leading the material and development process in line with company standards and business goals for desirability, quality, cost, sustainability and delivery
• Having responsibility for style allocation between factories to ensure the highest possible standard of make while achieving target CMT and FOB prices in accordance with the collection's price range
• Leading and reviewing fittings sessions, provide proactive and focused input to ensure quality and fit
• Managing the costing process and analysis of margins and deciding on negotiation strategies towards suppliers to ensure we achieve company targets in alignment with the development director RTW
• Working on development strategies in relation to suppliers and business objectives in alignment with the Development Director
• Leading, motivating and developing direct reports
  
  

WHO YOU ARE

You have high aspirations and focus on details that create substantial impact. You enjoy working as a team and you embrace feedback to develop yourself and others. You are curious and thrive in a dynamic environment. Cooperation, respect, and clear communication are important, along with your ambition to learn and grow. If these qualities speak to you, we would love to have you on our team.

Specific personal qualities for this role:

• Balanced leader with strong social skills
• Efficient, organized and have the ability to work in a fast paced environment
• An action oriented attitude with a proactive approach to problem solving
• Ability to develop and maintain strong relationships both internally and externally
  
  

Specific experience and knowledge for this role:

• Academic degree, from fashion and or textile education
• Minimum 7 years’ experience in a RTW product development role preferably from high-end fashion brands
• Previous managerial experience
• Excellent communication skills in written and spoken English
• Highly proficient in MS Office applications, particularly Excel
• Strong pricing and negotiating skills
  
  

What matters most to us is not whether you master all the listed knowledge and skills. We are dedicated to recognising the potential in each individual. We embrace diversity of people as well as ideas and viewpoints and encourage everyone's individual expression of their own identity.