Vans: Marketplace Planner, Footwear

Vans•Costa Mesa, CA

4d•$73,440 - $91,800•Hybrid

About The Position

As a Marketplace Planner - Footwear, you will optimize enterprise-level open to buy (OTB) strategies across the Americas, aligning financial plans with corporate objectives. You will collaborate with merchandising, finance, supply chain, and global teams to drive planning transformation, implementing new tools, analytics, and best practices for regional efficiency. This is a hybrid role, based in our office in Costa Mesa, California. OTB & Financial Ownership – Owns and optimizes OTB strategy across key markets, aligning financial plans with corporate objectives while maximizing profitability and minimizing excess stock. Executive-Level Influence & Process Improvement – Partners with key functions like merchandising, finance, supply chain, and global teams to drive business-wide planning transformation, implementing new tools, analytics, and best practices to enhance efficiency across global operations. Regional Assortment - Analytically support the formulation of the Americas product assortment and the phases of product life cycle (preseason product line planning and in-season global trend analysis). Sales Analytics – Supports reporting across Vans’ Americas markets, contrasting top-down plans to consolidation of data from multiple countries/channels to track demand trends across DTC stores/ecommerce, wholesale, and franchise. Demand Planning – Develops and maintains demand forecasts for key Vans product categories, ensuring alignment with brand and global sales strategies. Topline, attribute, style/color level. Cross-Functional Market Alignment – Works with regional merchandising, finance, and supply chain teams to align assortment and sales strategies across different consumer segments, factoring in key consumer moments, pricing strategies, and macroeconomic influences.

Requirements

3-5 years of experience and professional achievements.
Planning experience in an Omni, Multiple Retail Concept environment.
Strong analytical and communication skills including the ability to read, analyze and interpret retail reports.
A proactive business management approach, completing all assignments and job duties in a timely manner.
Advanced computer skills including Excel and Word.

Nice To Haves

Formal education in a related field

Responsibilities

Owns and optimizes OTB strategy across key markets, aligning financial plans with corporate objectives while maximizing profitability and minimizing excess stock.
Partners with key functions like merchandising, finance, supply chain, and global teams to drive business-wide planning transformation, implementing new tools, analytics, and best practices to enhance efficiency across global operations.
Analytically support the formulation of the Americas product assortment and the phases of product life cycle (preseason product line planning and in-season global trend analysis).
Supports reporting across Vans’ Americas markets, contrasting top-down plans to consolidation of data from multiple countries/channels to track demand trends across DTC stores/ecommerce, wholesale, and franchise.
Develops and maintains demand forecasts for key Vans product categories, ensuring alignment with brand and global sales strategies. Topline, attribute, style/color level.
Works with regional merchandising, finance, and supply chain teams to align assortment and sales strategies across different consumer segments, factoring in key consumer moments, pricing strategies, and macroeconomic influences.