Role & Responsibilities:  

Channel Planner who thrives in a fast-paced environment and has a strong proficiency in excel with strong business acumen, and will play a key role in optimizing sales, forecasting inventory needs, and identifying opportunities to maximize growth. 

Key Result Areas: 

Own and Drive pre-season merchandise financial plans, open to buy, flow planning, in-season forecast and in season management including promotional/markdown activity. 

Running rolling forecast with the assumption of sales split, markdown, and sell-thru assumption to create seasonal open to buy plan in multi time frame 

Developing the seasonal product flow plan in collaboration with Merchandising and Buying function 

Analyzing Store plan and provide feedback to marketplace team during the monthly/seasonal/yearly planning process 

Identifying weekly MTG YTG forecast/risk & opportunity with marketplace team 

Reviewing the sales trends and forecast the ending inventory, suggest any risk and opportunities, and drive the action to solve the risk. 

Consistently monitoring the business through analytics and identifying actions to achieve the key performance metrics. 

Understanding the key connectivity and interactions required for all business process steps. 

Competency Requirements:  

Advance understanding retail mathematics and Open to Buy  

Strong analytical skills, including the ability to interpret multiple data points across numerous channels and market segments  

Good communication skills - interpersonal, written and verbal  

Entrepreneurship – an ability to make decisions and take calculated risks  

Strong organization and planning skills; ability to deliver results to a process and timeline