Quick Response Business Lead GCN

Your mission

• Create and lead Quick Response as a growth engine, not only as a supply-chain project.
• Own the business end to end, from customer and trend insight through product, production, launch, selling and scale-up.
• Build the team, governance, decision rights and ways of working required to operate with start-up speed inside a large organisation.
• Deliver profitable incremental sales while protecting full-price selling, inventory health and speed to market.

Key accountabilities

Business ownership and P&L: Own the Quick Response business plan, sales ambition, investment choices, margin, inventory exposure and profitability. Make clear trade-offs and be accountable for the total commercial result.

Growth strategy: Define where Quick Response can create the greatest growth for GCN. Translate customer demand, competitive signals and trend opportunities into a focused portfolio of commercial bets.

Entrepreneurial leadership: Initiate action without waiting for perfect information. Test, learn and adjust quickly. Challenge established processes when they slow growth, while building commitment across the organisation.

Fast product creation and production: Design and lead an end-to-end model that connects trend detection, design or product development, sourcing, capacity, quality, logistics and channel launch. Drive toward a 14-day lead-time ambition where commercially and operationally viable.

Winning-product engine: Establish a disciplined process to select opportunities, launch controlled quantities, read early demand and scale winners fast. Stop or redirect weak bets early to limit downside.

Commercial execution: Own the go-to-market plan across relevant channels, including product proposition, launch timing, volume, price, visibility and selling follow-up. Ensure Quick Response adds incremental demand rather than shifting existing sales.

Team and capability building: Set up and lead a high-performing, cross-functional China team. Create clarity, pace and accountability, coach talent and build the capabilities needed to scale the model.

Senior stakeholder leadership: Align and influence commercial, assortment, sourcing, supply chain, digital, retail, marketing, controlling and central Quick Response stakeholders. Resolve roadblocks quickly and escalate decisions with clear business recommendations.

Performance management: Create a fact-based weekly operating rhythm. Use leading indicators and P&L outcomes to decide what to start, scale, change or stop.

Measures of success

• Incremental topline sales and profitable contribution from Quick Response.
• P&L delivery versus approved business case and targets.
• Number and value of winning products scaled successfully.
• Full-price selling and surplus FUP or inventory outcome.
• Speed from identified opportunity to market, with a 14-day lead-time ambition where viable.
• Share of tests scaled, stopped or redirected based on clear demand signals.
• Team readiness, decision speed and cross-functional execution quality.