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Footwear, Brand & Commerce

TYPE
Professional role
AREA
Commerce / Digital
ROLE
Brand & E-commerce Manager
LOCATION
Germany
Tan leather brogues, welted construction, on a stone sill.
SUMMARY

E-commerce, B2B and brand presentation for a German multi-brand footwear company rooted in craft.

Company context

Schwangau Schuh GmbH holds several footwear brands, each addressing a distinct audience, sold through own retail, e-commerce and B2B channels.

Footwear is an unusually honest product category. A shoe is a construction problem before it is a design one — the last, the leather, the way a sole is attached are decisions that cannot be styled around later. The commercial side has to carry that without flattening it into a product grid.

Scope of work

Role

E-commerce and B2B development, expansion into new sales channels, marketing campaigns and brand presentation across digital and commercial touchpoints — several brands, several audiences, one commercial system.

Brand and commercial environment

Work moved between the product culture — leather, lasts, construction — and the commercial systems that carry it: assortments, campaigns, channel presentation and customer-facing material. Translating between those two languages is most of the job.

Craft / Channel

CRAFT

The company's product culture: leather, construction and finished footwear across a portfolio of brands. Product design and manufacturing sit with the company, not with this role.

CHANNEL

The commercial side of the same product: brand presentation, digital merchandising, e-commerce and B2B channels — the part of the work this role covered.