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Job Title: Senior Planner Retail Ready to Wear
Primary Purpose: The Senior Planner for Retail Ready to Wear will analytically support the formulation of the global product assortment and the phases of product life cycle (preseason product line planning and in-season global trend analysis). The position will partner with Merchandising and business channels to set and ensure growth targets are achieved and support all aspects of buying. This position will report to the Manager, Retail Ready to Wear and Licensed.
The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Merchandise Planning to...
Topline Assortment Planning
- Provide yearly and seasonal, topline financial framework that acts as a guide for the assortment
- Manage topline OTB focusing on sales trend changes and key sales and inventory KPIs
Global Assortment Planning:
- Analyze and identify global and regional product trends, through key weekly reporting
- Continuously leverage analysis, product trends, and productivity to inform global plans and assortments
- Measure new trends, and apply them to short- and long-range product plans and projections
- Collaborate with Global Merchandising to buy and plan curated global assortment
- Plan global sales and investments against key product strategies across markets, leveraging strong business partnerships to maximize sales opportunities, maintaining Global message, in collaboration with Global Merchandising and in market business units
- Share buy reviews with Global partners, highlighting sales and investment strategies
Sku level OTB Planning:
- Manage Channel OTB by anticipating Open to Buy needs to support seasonal newness and carryover investment in collaboration with and inventory management teams
In Season Management:
- Action on shipment re-routing, BU inventory sharing, and global chase opportunities based on early reads on newness sales, in collaboration with Brand Operations
- Report global best sellers assess success of newness launches, noting key variance by region
- Provide analysis and reporting to identify global and regional product trends and recommendations for Senior Executives
Other:
- Effectively prioritizes and coordinates deadlines with cross-functional partners
- Foster effective teamwork and communication with key business partners (i.e. Product Development, Global Merchandising, Planning & Logistics, Global Coach Team, Business Unit teams)
The accomplished individual will possess...
- The ability to effectively deal with ambiguity and adjust to shifting priorities
- Strong initiative and agility to flex across shifting priorities
- Great sense of teamwork to coordinate with many cross-functional partners
- Persistence to drive tasks and projects to conclusion
- The ability to learn quickly and an openness to change
- Excellent presentation, problem solving and analytical skills
- Superior written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate across all levels of management
- Outstanding attention to detail and degree of accountability
An outstanding professional will have...
- 4+ years of experience in planning, buying strategy, or business analytics; Equivalent combination of education and experience will be considered
- Retail experience
- Excellent Microsoft Excel skills and strong knowledge of Microsoft PowerPoint
- Experience with MicroStrategy or other BI reporting tools, experience with standardized reporting and ad hoc reporting
Our Competencies for All Employees
- Courage: Doesn't hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and "actionable" positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn't upset when things are up in the air; doesn't have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
Our Competencies for All People Managers
- Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
- Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
- Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.
Coach is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant's or employee's qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. #LI-HYBRID #LI-AD1
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Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or [email protected]
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Work Setup: Hybrid
BASE PAY RANGE $72,000.00 TO $90,000.00 Annually
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Our global house of brands unites the magic of Coach, Kate Spade New York and Stuart Weitzman. By intertwining different people and ideas, we push ourselves in our work, pull out the unexpected in what we create, and expand the bounds of possibility.
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