This role provides day-to-day support to the Planning Manager for the Direct-to-Consumer channel. This position is responsible for pre-season merchandise financial planning, open-to-buy management, flow planning, in-season forecasting, and in-season management.
Key Responsibilities:
➢ Support the Manager, Planning (Timberland), in developing top-down merchandise financial plans.
➢ Analyze store plans and provide feedback to the marketplace team during the monthly, seasonal, and yearly planning processes.
➢ Run rolling forecasts based on sales mix, markdown, and sell-through assumptions to create seasonal open-to-buy plans across multiple time frames.
➢ Develop seasonal product flow plans.
➢ Identify weekly MTG and YTG forecasts, risks, and opportunities with the marketplace team.
➢ Recommend and review markdown and promotional opportunities together with the marketplace team.
Lead the alignment of markdown and pricing across different channels.
➢ Review sales trends, forecast ending inventory, identify risks and opportunities, and drive actions to mitigate risks.
➢ Consistently monitor business performance through analytics and identify actions to achieve key performance metrics.
➢ Understand the key connections and interactions required across all business process steps.
➢ Conduct regular business reviews with the China marketplace team and Buying team.
Competency Requirements:
➢ Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.
➢ Ability to analyze and interpret large amounts of data, identify implications, and recommend required actions.
➢ Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify actions and make decisions to resolve issues.
➢ Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.
➢ Advanced numerical and quantitative analysis skills.
➢ Retail knowledge.
➢ Strong organizational and planning skills, with the ability to deliver results according to established processes and timelines.
➢ Excellent communication skills.
➢ Ability to turn data and analytics into insights that inform and influence decision-making.
➢ Strong teamwork and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.
➢ Ability to interact and communicate effectively with employees at all levels, both senior and junior.
➢ Knowledge of Tableau and Access is a plus.
➢ Fluent in English in a business environment.
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