Manager Merchandise Planning

Sitting in the EU eCommerce Product Merchandising team, the EU eCom Planning & Trading team owns and evolves the decisions and process leading to a seasonal plan that ensures we buy the right amount of the right product at the right time for our consumers.
- The Planning & Trading Manager acts as key responsible in translating a financial forecast into a seasonal open-to-buy plan for your respective category, identifying business opportunities & risks and representing that plan across key stakeholders cross-functionally to ensure overall monthly/quarterly/yearly/seasonal targets you will set are met.
- You will play a pivotal role in bringing the European category eCom Strategy and Execution to life by providing best-in-class merchandise financial plan ; ensuring optimal pre-season assortment framework, while also driving real-time, in-season trading by leveraging assortment insights signals into actions.

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

- Contribute to a high-performance culture across whole buying/planning/trading teams by having a consistent and clear communication about expectations and targets, analyzing assortment performance and trends, and delivering proper recommendations and enhancements.
- Own monthly IBP process for respective assortment areas of competence and provide insights and guidance to all relevant stakeholders involved.
- Act as facilitator in providing transparency in reconciling month-to-date (or quarter-to-date, or year-to-date) assortment performance with seasonal point of view, focusing especially on segmenting properly performance as owned vs partner program and into full price vs. other marketing buckets.
- Contribute to Monthy Buy SnapShot session by ensuring transparency on all relevant insights but also acting as catalysator of relevant topics coming from the different teams
- Create business cases for future opportunities, from a short-term point of view but also from mid
- and long term.
- Deliver in tight collaboration with EU eCom Buying, seasonal Merchandise Financial Plans and seasonal Buy Sign Off Plans to drive productivity and profitability.
- Optimize and drive category performance in tight collaboration with EU Buying, Merchandising Operations, Demand Planning, Digital Visual Merchandising, Brand and other Functions, in order to meet topline (demand / net sales) but also margin and other profitability related targets.
- Contribute to evolve approach and processes for all planning and trading milestones, regular meetings and businss udpates by leveraging internal and external networks to define optimization opportunities and best practices.
- Participate to major seasonal and go-to-market milestones to gain insight into key seasonal brand and BU strategies and initiatives.
- Create and guide cross-functional collaboration among several stakehodlers to optimize performance as part of the regular cadence of weekly and monthly trading practices.
- Identify and react to changing business, and industry landscapes and create/execute strategies to maintain sales momentum.
- Collaborate with Global Trading Analytics, EU Analytics, and other analytics teams to optimize reporting solution and capabilities and create new tools relevant to make recommendations and influence business decisions.
- Drive horizontal deliverables and support the team in horizontal milestones management.

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

- eCom EU Buying
- eCom EU Merchandising Ops.
- eCom EU Trading FO
- eCom EU & market EU Finance
- eCom EU Sales Planning & Forecasting
- eCom EU Demand Planning
- eCom EU Digital Visual Merchandising
- eCom EU Digital Sales
- eCom EU Digital Activation
- EU Brand Finance & Business Units teams
- Global Digital Trading Analytics & Data Science

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

- Passionate about product, deep knowledge of merchandising and retail topics and broad knowledge of other functional areas relevant from a buying, planning, trading and product creation process.
- Knowledges and passion for Sports, global fashion, sneakerhead, hype, fashion influencer
- Market.
- Understanding of key assortment and digital KPIs (e.g., Traffic, AOV, PDP views, CVR, ROS, Markdown depth, Sell Through,), their interconnected nature and what levers to drive to improve performance.
- Self-motivated and passionate about deriving business insight from data, improving business processes, and solving problems.
- Advanced Excel skills and proficiency in spreadsheet analysis, Power Bi data visualization tool is a plus.
- Strong organizational and planning skills to handle multiple tasks and business partners.
- Solution-oriented with a focus on achieving results. Quick to learn new systems and tools.
- Highly motivated and flexible, with the ability to work in deadline driven environment.
- Excellent PowerPoint skills coupled with excellent communication and presentation skills.
- Fluent in English both verbally and written.

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

- BA / BS in Business,