The North Face: Planner
About The Position
The Planner is part of The North Face Global Merchandising Planning team and supports product and assortment planning across global and regional markets. The role partners closely with Merchandising, Operations, Sales, Regional teams, Finance, and Demand Planning to develop demand plans and provide insights that support the brand’s strategic, financial, and distribution goals. The Planner develops analytical frameworks and reporting, provides quantitative and qualitative analysis of business and product performance, recommends SKU counts, and builds bottom-up plans by classification and channel at the style and color level. The role analyzes product performance, supports seasonal planning decisions, and helps develop and maintain global and regional merchandising plans. It also supports seasonal plan handoffs to Forecasting and Operations, maintains planning tools, contributes to seasonal revenue targets, and ensures plans align with financial targets and seasonal strategies. The position manages data and produces recurring and ad-hoc reports using Excel, Power BI, and/or Tableau.
Requirements
- At least 5 years of experience and professional achievements.
- Strong Microsoft Office skills, with advanced Excel capabilities.
- Experience with product forecasting, merchandise planning, and/or strategic planning.
- Experience analyzing retail sales, inventory, or product performance.
- Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret data and translate findings into actionable business insights.
- Ability to communicate analyses clearly to cross-functional partners.
Nice To Haves
- Experience with Tableau, Power BI, or similar reporting and visualization tools.
- Formal education in a related field.
Responsibilities
- Support the development of analytical frameworks and reporting to inform merchandising strategies, including quantitative and qualitative analysis of business and product performance globally and regionally.
- Provide SKU count recommendations based on historical trends, productivity, and market opportunities.
- Build bottom-up plans by classification and channel at the style and color level, incorporating global insights, regional sell-in and sell-through data, historical trends, and seasonal initiatives.
- Analyze product performance to identify opportunities and risks and support seasonal planning decisions.
- Support the development and maintenance of global and regional plans that connect sales and product strategies with Operations and Supply Chain.
- Partner with regional planning counterparts to develop and maintain global merchandising plans.
- Support seasonal merchandising plan handoffs to Forecasting and Operations, highlighting key initiatives, opportunities, and risks.
- Maintain merchandising planning tools used to plan and track seasonal assortments and provide visibility to Merchandising and other business stakeholders.
- Support the development of seasonal revenue targets by channel and category aligned with financial and brand strategies.
- Partner with Merchandising, Finance, Sales, Operations, and Demand Planning to support global and regional revenue and productivity targets and connect forecasts with strategic product priorities.
- Ensure product merchandising plans by channel and category are aligned with financial targets and seasonal strategies.
- Manage data and develop recurring and ad-hoc reporting using Excel, Power BI, and/or Tableau.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
Education Level
No Education Listed
