Principal I, Brand Management [L5~L6-I] (Sporting Goods)

The role

The candidate will manage the leisure, sports, and camping categories by overseeing the full cycle of sales, profit, and inventory. This role involves establishing category strategies, discovering brands, and building partnerships for direct purchasing.

What you will do

• Manage the full cycle of sales, profit, and inventory for leisure, sports, and camping categories
• Establish long-term category strategies using market and customer data
• Discover and onboard potential brands to ensure growth
• Build brand partnerships and design business structures for direct purchasing
• Manage marketing conditions and partnerships with brand companies
• Manage category performance (P&L) and establish product and promotion strategies
• Track competitive pricing and lead supply price negotiations
• Oversee operational processes including product registration, inventory, pricing, and promotions
• Collaborate with marketing, logistics, and catalog departments to improve processes

Required qualifications

• Bachelor's degree or higher
• 8 or more years of relevant experience
• Interest in online retail business
• Experience in e-commerce platforms or direct purchasing
• Ability to accept change with flexible thinking
• Experience improving actual service or sales metrics through analysis and insight

Nice to have

• Understanding of leisure/sports category industry and customer needs
• Ability to create visible results through fast decision-making and execution
• Experience defining performance as KPIs and proving it with numbers
• Ability to find solutions and execute despite unexpected problems
• Proactivity to find and expand tasks for business growth

Before you apply

• This posting is exclusively for internal employees
• Must complete the attached Internal Transfer Request Form
• Must submit via Coupang email address

About the company

Coupang Retail is a core organization driving business results through the growth of Rocket Delivery. It designs category strategies and profit structures to set new standards in the distribution industry.