Analyst, Global Inventory Planning
About The Position
Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible. A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive.Primary Purpose: to support global inventory management with a focus on procurement The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Planning to...
Requirements
- Self-starter who takes initiative and displays a strong sense of urgency
- Experience in a planning or inventory management roll for a multi channel business
- Willingness to learn and engage across multiple brand partners
- Strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task
- Ability to effectively interact and collaborate with team members and cross functional partners
- Strong analytical and communication skills
- Strong computer skills, advanced Microsoft excel
- Excellent time management and prioritization skills
- Ability to problem solve
Responsibilities
- Support seasonal purchasing for all business channels
- Utilize internal procurement database to roll up BU buys into a global view for supply & demand meetings
- Manage changes to seasonal buys
- Ensure BU’s are supporting global must buys
- Submit final seasonal buys to supply chain
- Act as the liaison between commercial teams and production teams
- Partner with BU’s to identify priority purchase orders and submit to PO management
- Manage post market sample orders and post market sample calendar
- Assist BU’s with sales order accuracy in JOOR
- Publish final seasonal margin & maintain fiscal DTC IMU tracker
- Coordinate seasonal supply and demand meetings
- Support seasonal commercial calendar management
- Provide seasonal sales orders to operations and account services to upload into SAP
- Partner with BU’s and PO management on rerouting inventory between segments and/or warehouses
- Coordinate bi-monthly chase purchasing with the commercial teams
- Monitor all purchases against open to buy for each BU
- Manage seasonal investment recaps
- Manage global pricing validation seasonally to ensure accuracy for ticketing
- Support monthly receipt & obsolescence forecast for finance
- Partner with IT resources on new system implementations and integrations
- Validate seasonal line plan is set up accurately in systems and partner with global merchandising and IT teams as needed
- Validate purchases orders are keyed accurately in systems and partner with PO management as needed
- Assist in additional support for the global planning team
- Provide licensing forecasts to finance
- Assist with preparing the demand inventory review deck monthly
- Assist with preparing seasonal mid market check in deck
Benefits
- Medical insurance
- Dental insurance
- Vision insurance
- 401 (K)
- Paid Paternity and Maternity leave
- Commuter Benefits
- Disability insurance
- Tuition assistance
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Entry Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
Number of Employees
5,001-10,000 employees
