VP, Planning - Beauty (Hybrid)
About The Position
The Vice President, Planning, champions new methods to identify planning improvements necessary to improve profits and profitability. They are out of the box thinkers who maximize gross margin dollars and inventory productivity by providing the overall financial direction of a category. The VP guides their team through the development of seasonal merchandise financial plans and by-door plans. They will work in partnership with DMM's/Merchandise Managers/Allocation Planners to maximize overall financial performance of product categories and to develop a collaborative team culture within their area of responsibility.
Requirements
- Experience in leading a planning team.
- Experience in developing seasonal merchandise financial plans and by-door plans.
- Experience in maximizing gross margin dollars and inventory productivity.
- Experience in providing overall financial direction of a category.
- Experience in partnering with DMM's/Merchandise Managers/Allocation Planners.
- Experience in developing a collaborative team culture.
- Experience in directing the development of divisional, departmental and bottom-up merchandise financial plans.
- Experience in ensuring company EBITDA goals are met or exceeded.
- Experience in driving assortment, pricing, profitability and inventory analytics.
- Experience in partnering with DMM/MM in divisional monthly forecast meetings.
- Experience in managing opportunities and risks through the monthly forecast process.
- Experience in analyzing historical and current trends to identify risks or opportunities.
- Experience in recommending strategies to increase sales and achieve business and financial objectives.
- Experience in building a high-quality planning team and maintaining bench strength.
- Experience in developing partnerships, leading, coaching and providing constructive feedback.
- Experience in facilitating team environment between Buying, Merchandise Planning and Allocation organizations.
- Experience in leading initiatives to instill best practices and develop support infrastructure.
- Experience in evaluating techniques, processes and systems to identify improvement areas.
Nice To Haves
- Out of the box thinkers.
Responsibilities
- Direct the development of divisional, departmental and bottom-up merchandise financial plans; work with Senior Management, Corporate Planning and team to ensure company EBITDA goals are met or exceeded.
- Lead team to drive assortment, pricing, profitability and inventory analytics to be used by Buying teams during the product and assortment planning processes (merchandise strategy, inventory planning, assortment & buy planning).
- Partner with the DMM/MM in the divisional monthly forecast meetings; manage opportunities and risks through the monthly forecast process.
- Analyze historical and current trends to identify risks or opportunities and recommend strategies to increase sales and achieve business and financial objectives.
- Build a high-quality planning team and maintain bench strength by developing partnerships, leading, coaching and providing constructive feedback.
- Facilitate team environment between Buying, Merchandise Planning and Allocation organizations.
- Lead initiatives to instill best practices and develop support infrastructure by evaluating techniques, processes and systems with management to identify improvement areas.
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Executive
Education Level
No Education Listed
