The North Face: Senior Planner - Apparel

VF Corporation•Denver, CO

8d•$86,400 - $108,000

About The Position

At The North Face, we are driven by a passion for Exploration, Innovation, and a love for wild places. We believe exploration is a mindset that influences everything we do. As a community of explorers, we remain curious about new ideas, places, and people. This role is part of the Global Merchandising Planning team and will be responsible for assigned category and product planning across the globe and all regions. The Senior Planner will collaborate with Global Category Planning, Operations, Sales, Regional teams, and Finance departments to create a demand plan that achieves the brand's strategic, financial, and distribution goals.

Requirements

5+ years of experience and professional achievements
Experience in product forecasting, statistical modeling, retail sales analysis and/or strategic planning
Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Office Suite – particularly Excel
Strong analytical skills and ability to communicate analysis to broad audience
Proven ability to analyze and interpret data to identify business opportunities
Strong written and verbal communication skills

Nice To Haves

Experience using BI reporting tools preferred
Formal education in a related field is great to have

Responsibilities

Develop an analytical framework to inform merchandising strategies, providing qualitative and quantitative analysis on business and product performance, globally and regionally.
Provide SKU count guidance using analysis of historical trends and market opportunities.
Build bottoms-up plans by classification and channel at the style and color level to align with the financial plan, based on Global category insights, regional sell-in and sell-thru data, historical trends, and seasonal initiatives.
Report on SKU count and conduct SKU rationalization exercises using ABC analysis or other quantitative analysis.
Support the development of a planning calendar to align merchandising, finance, sales, RD&D, and operations milestones/deliverables.
Partner with counterparts in the Regions to develop a global merchandising plan.
Partner with the Global category team to achieve global and regional revenue & productivity targets through collaboration with finance, sales, and operations.
Own handoffs of the seasonal merchandising plan to the forecasting and operations team, briefing big ideas and key brand initiatives.
Develop seasonal revenue targets by channel and category that align with financial and brand strategies.
Ensure Global and regional product merchandising plans by channel and category align with financial and brand strategies.
Roll up and report global and regional forecast figures down at the style level.