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Assistant Category Manager, Basketball

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Product manager and merchandiser with a focus on sportswear footwear, apparel, and accessories. 

With a strong passion for this industry, I wish to utilize my passions for athletics, the community, and creativity in order to create positive change through product creation and development. As a consumer-driven professional, I understand the importance of consumer insights and market trends. Currently, I work for Adidas - Basketball in merchandising but constantly exercise my passion for product innovation, development, and management both in and outside of my work.

Handle the day-to-day merchandising operations of adidas basketball apparel in North America. Involves managing segmentation, pricing, and building out a range for basketball apparel including over 200 SKU's across men's and women's. This role requires utilizing seasonal stories, color connectivity, and footwear connectivity to create a cohesive story season over season. Also responsible for understanding material construction and building out merchboards for all sales teams in our market.

In this role, I initially worked with Rumpl's brand marketing team and personally managed a variety of product towards marketing campaigns, most notably the launch of their NFL licensed assortment. I worked closely with cross-functional teams including design, product, marketing, and sales to allow seamless delivery of key product launches. I also managed all sample orders to key partners across the world. The internship led to a more permanent role with the customer experience team, and that lasted until I started my next role at adidas.

Product Marketing Intern/CX Coordinator

In the summer of 2021, I worked with Danner's lifestyle product line management team and conducted an apparel research project. After analyzing and segmenting the market through a variety of different tactics, a strategy was implemented and presented to a broader team at the end of the opportunity. I learned how to receive consumer insights, segment the market, and ultimately think like a product line manager.

Product Line Management Intern

I worked part-time with HydraPak's engineers and product managers in order to develop a wear test plan involving twenty individuals for two separate products. Learned how to improve products through consumer insights and gained experience on the early stages of development.

Wear Test Coordinator

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David Richenstein: Assistant Category Manager, Basketball in Portland, OR

David Richenstein

University of Oregon Lundquist College of Business

University of Oregon Sports Product Management Master's Program