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We are looking for brave summitteers who don´t want to stay put. Leave your footprint at Jack Wolfskin.
We Live to Discover
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
We Live to Discover
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Join us as soon as possible at our headquarters in Idstein as a Manager Retail Buying (m/f/d).
The story begins
- Own the end-to-end buying process, including budget and margin responsibility
- Develop and execute strategic plans for product categories and seasonal collections
- Prepare and present retail concepts and modules
- Manage and approve markdowns across our own retail stores
- Monitor sales and inventory to drive product performance and optimize stock levels
- Participate in key seasonal milestone meetings to align on strategy and execution
- Conduct regular store visits and assortment analyses to continuously improve the product offering
- Collaborate closely with Demand Planning, Order Book Management, Design, and Product teams
- Act as a key interface between Retail Area Management and Visual Merchandising
- Lead independent projects to further evolve our retail strategy
- Oversee bad bestseller management to refine our product mix
- Compile and present weekly performance reports to senior leadership
Your proven path
- At least 3 years of experience in retail buying or category management, ideally in a fast-paced or comparable environment
- Strong expertise in assortment management, merchandising, and retail systems
- Solid analytical skills with a focus on performance metrics and data-driven decisions
- Proven experience working with cross-functional teams
- A proactive mindset, excellent organizational skills, and the ability to manage multiple priorities
- Advanced MS Office skills, especially in Excel
- Fluent in both German and English, written and spoken
We are an outdoor gear company and we act like it
- Exciting product world and an international environment within a responsible and sustainability-driven company
- Flexible and hybrid working models
- Remote work from abroad for up to 4 weeks per year
- Attractive employee discounts and additional corporate benefits
- Complimentary water, coffee, and a variety of teas
- Casual dress code
- Bike leasing program with monthly subsidies for up to two leasing contracts
- EGYM corporate fitness membership with access to over 7,000 partner gyms
- Team events and outdoor sports activities
- Likeminded – our mental health partner offering a wide range of learning and development resources
- Company languages: German and English, plus access to language courses
- Employee referral program
Want to join us?
Join us and apply online at our career portal, stating your desired salary and earliest start date.
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We, at Jack Wolfskin, are offering you an exciting job opportunity in a continuously developing working environment with flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths and swift implementation.
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recruiting@jack-wolfskin.com Please note:
We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
Please note: We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
