The North Face: Senior Planner - Apparel
About The Position
The Senior Planner – Apparel is part of The North Face Global Merchandising Planning team and owns assigned category and product planning across the globe and all regions. The role works collaboratively with Global Category Planning, Operations, Sales, Regional teams, and Finance to create demand plans that support brand strategy, financial goals, and distribution objectives. The position develops analytical frameworks and business and product performance analyses, builds bottoms-up merchandising plans by classification and channel at style and color level, and provides SKU count guidance and rationalization. It partners with regional and global teams to create merchandising plans and seasonal revenue targets, aligns plans with financial and brand strategies, and hands seasonal plans off to forecasting and operations teams.
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 a 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.
- Formal education in a related field.
Responsibilities
- Develop analytical frameworks and provide qualitative and quantitative analysis of business and product performance globally and regionally.
- Provide SKU count guidance based on historical trends and market opportunities.
- Build bottoms-up plans by classification and channel at the style and color level, using global category insights, regional sell-in and sell-through data, historical trends, and seasonal initiatives.
- Report on SKU counts and conduct SKU rationalization using ABC analysis or other quantitative analysis.
- Support development of the planning calendar to align merchandising, finance, sales, RD&D, and operations milestones and deliverables.
- Partner with regional counterparts to develop the global merchandising plan.
- Collaborate with the Global Category team, Finance, Sales, and Operations to achieve global and regional revenue and productivity targets.
- Own seasonal merchandising plan handoffs to forecasting and operations teams, briefing them on key brand initiatives and ideas.
- Develop seasonal revenue targets by channel and category aligned 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 at the style level.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Senior
Education Level
No Education Listed
