Yu-Ching Chang

Current

• Head of Japan Office at YOOX
• Japan Merchandiser at YOOX

Past

• Assistant Merchandiser at Jil Sander
• Assistant Merchandiser (Intern) at Salvatore Ferragamo Italia
• Pricing Product Manager at Amazon Japan

• Program Manager at Amazon Japan
• Web Developer at Morgan Stanley Japan

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Education

• Polimoda
• Worcester Polytechnic Institute
• International School of the Sacred Heart

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Industry

Apparel & Fashion

Yu-Ching Chang’s Summary

Highly motivated, dedicated and multilingual with experience in merchandising, product management, project management and web development in retail. Key strengths include management skills, communication and interpersonal skills, and work well under deadlines and extreme pressure.　

Yu-Ching Chang’s Specialties:

Bilingual (English and Japanese)
Merchandising
Marketing
Product Management
Project Management
Financial Analysis
Data Mining

Yu-Ching Chang’s Experience

• Head of Japan Office

  YOOX

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  August 2009 — Present (4 months)

• Japan Merchandiser

  YOOX

  (Privately Held; Internet industry)

  October 2008 — Present (1 year 2 months)

  **Head of Japan Office from August 2009**
  
  - develop YOOX's merchandising strategy in the Japanese market.
  - support the design and implementation of the Japan merchandising strategy (product assortment, pricing).
  - monitor KPIs such as Sell-Through, Sell-Off, Gross Margin etc.
  - on-site merchandising activities (product rotation on yoox.com and other YOOX Group sites and
  product selection for external and internal marketing activities)
  - track competition, both on and off-line.

• Assistant Merchandiser

  Jil Sander

  (Privately Held; 201-500 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

  September 2006 — September 2008 (2 years 1 month)

  - Data analysis and report of sales, best sellers, stocks for each shops as well as in total
  - Communicate with each store manager and shop staffs to obtain timely information on the business to achieve sales objectives
  - Responsible for inventory in cooperation with Logistics and IT department
  - Responsible for the management of current stores as well as opening stores
  - Interface with store managers to ensure that special needs are met and delegate to the function/department in charge
  - Interface with external customers to meet their requirements by answering products/customer services related questions
  - Assist to monitor the budget, expense and forecasts
  - Assist to coordinate products with media campaigns and in store events
  - Assist the buying for each season

• Assistant Merchandiser (Intern)

  Salvatore Ferragamo Italia

  (Privately Held; 501-1000 employees; Apparel & Fashion industry)

  November 2005 — February 2006 (4 months)

  Assistant Merchandiser (intern) in Men's Leather Goods merchandising deparment.
  == Products include Men's shoes, luggage, small leather goods and belts.
  == Work includes: Assisting in buying sessions, new collection presentations, compile forecast and actual sell in/ sell out data.

• Pricing Product Manager

  Amazon Japan

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; AMZ.N; Internet industry)

  May 2004 — May 2005 (1 year 1 month)

  Strategy development and execution of pricing policies
  == Tracking competition, identifying opportunities and improvement areas, testing, analyzing results and constituting recommendations for senior management approval. Owner of “pricing lifecycle”.

• Program Manager

  Amazon Japan

  (Public Company; 51-200 employees; AMZ.N; Internet industry)

  July 2002 — April 2004 (1 year 10 months)

  Managed, defined and coordinated project execution for Amazon.co.jp web contents.
  == Worked with the business and production resources both in Seattle and Japan and ensured proper delivery of all technical and service related components of a project.

• Web Developer

  Morgan Stanley Japan

  (Public Company; 10,001 or more employees; Financial Services industry)

  February 1999 — June 2002 (3 years 5 months)

  Design, program, test and maintain web applications for firm-wide users and Morgan Stanley clients.
  == Managed and developed business critical secure sites for various divisions such as Institutional Equity, Fixed Income and Foreign Exchange, as well as Morgan Stanley clients

Yu-Ching Chang’s Education

• Polimoda

  Masters , Fashion Merchandising and Management , 2005 — 2005

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

  BS , Computer Science , August 1994 — February 1999

• International School of the Sacred Heart

  1980 — 1994