Job Description: Merchandise Planner

Planners are the strategic drivers of our product teams, shaping the inventory and financial strategy behind every product. Interpreting and balancing current sales, inventory analysis, financial goals, and emerging trends, our Merchandise Planners build the strategies that maximize our product success and profitability. Planners forecast future product performance, establish sales strategies across domestic, international, and e-commerce channels, and strategically manage our inventory around the world.

This job is located at our EMEA Home Office London, England and reports into the Planning Director.

What Will You Be Doing?

• Driving sales and margin for your brand gender by crafting your assortment architecture and strategizing brand gender and mid-level plans by region and channel.
• Collaborating with cross-functional teams to develop business strategies, managing profitability, and reacting to change while making strategic decisions based on current sales and inventory information.
• Researching the global market and leveraging that information to build the most compelling and profitable financial plan.
• Forecasting and implementing product distribution strategies by analyzing sales data and store inventory levels, incorporating variations by channel.
• Clearly presenting selling and inventory analysis and performance-to-plan results and strategies to senior leadership, providing insight on selling analysis, customer insights, and trend ideas.
• Building department level costing, revenue, and merchandise financial planning strategies by channel and region to achieve growth in key performance indicators.
• Direct line management responsibilities for a team of Item Planners.