Job Definition:
Liaise with merchandise, finance, omni-channel planning and operation teams to deliver seasonal/ monthly buying, allocation, inventory forecasts and replenishment order, provide analytics and reporting for decision making. Facilitate regional S&OP meetings and participate in dialogues with key counterparts to improve demand visibility.
Key Roles & Responsibility:
- Partner with Finance,Merchandising, and omni-channel planning and operation team on formulating 5 years strategic planning on product category and Omni-channel from buying, allocation, to inventory management
- Multi-Horizon Planning for supporting 5-year Production Capacity Planning
- Seasonal product level forecasting at SKU level.
- Provide weekly and monthly end to end ST and inventory as well as seasonal in-coming product tracking reports.
- Co-ordinating with Global Planning Team on seasonal forecasting requirements.
- Consolidation & validation of channel / country level product forecasts
- Support the Merchandising & Omni-channel Sales & Operation team with their planning and forecasting of the line as part of the GTM calendar.
- Alignment and reconciliation of monthly/ seasonal demand signal to financial forecast / parameter per DC (Order book review)
- Reporting order book progression vs Seasonal Demand forecast
- Partner with Brand on forecasting of NOOS / In-season replenishment items.
- Product line analysis:
- SKU productivity
- Demand / Order book phasing
- Product launch phasing
- Forecast accuracy and icon management reports
- Working with Merchandising & Omni-channel Sales & Operation team in order to follow SMU products / special in-season needs.
- Aligning on ‘placeholder’ orders (Contracts)
Essential –
- Building strategic work relationship
- Decision making
- Coaching & developing others
- Business Acumen
Desirable –
- Customer focus
- Empowerment
- Facilitating Change
- Detail-oriented
- Data maintenance, analysis & visualization.
- Technical savvy (System & Process)
- Multi-tasking
- High efficiency and logical thinking with operational excellence
Experience
• Minimum 6 years of relevant experience in planning and analysis, preferably with planning experience in multi-national company, apparel industry experience is desirable but not mandatory
• Solid work experience in retail business and S&OP is highly preferred
• Strong business acumen with analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Well-organized, logical & mature thinking, attention to details, dedicated, energetic and being a self-starter
• Computer literate with excellent knowledge and hands-on experience in Excel, PowerPoint and other MS Office applications. Practical experience in SAP /APO, forecasting system is definitely an advantage
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Application Details
- Organization DetailsVF Corporation
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