Planner, DTC (Timberland)

This role provides day-to-day support to the Planning Manager for the Direct-to-Consumer channel. This position is responsible for pre-season merchandise financial planning, open-to-buy management, flow planning, in-season forecasting, and in-season management.

Key Responsibilities:

Support the Manager, Planning (Timberland), in developing top-down merchandise financial plans.

Analyze store plans and provide feedback to the marketplace team during the monthly, seasonal, and yearly planning processes.

Run rolling forecasts based on sales mix, markdown, and sell-through assumptions to create seasonal open-to-buy plans across multiple time frames.

Develop seasonal product flow plans.

Identify weekly MTG and YTG forecasts, risks, and opportunities with the marketplace team.

Recommend and review markdown and promotional opportunities together with the marketplace team.

Lead the alignment of markdown and pricing across different channels.

Review sales trends, forecast ending inventory, identify risks and opportunities, and drive actions to mitigate risks.

Consistently monitor business performance through analytics and identify actions to achieve key performance metrics.

Understand the key connections and interactions required across all business process steps.

Conduct regular business reviews with the China marketplace team and Buying team.

Competency Requirements:

Strong analytical skills and attention to detail.

Ability to analyze and interpret large amounts of data, identify implications, and recommend required actions.

Strong problem-solving skills, with the ability to identify actions and make decisions to resolve issues.

Advanced working knowledge of Microsoft Excel.

Advanced numerical and quantitative analysis skills.

Retail knowledge.

Strong organizational and planning skills, with the ability to deliver results according to established processes and timelines.

Excellent communication skills.

Ability to turn data and analytics into insights that inform and influence decision-making.

Strong teamwork and collaboration skills with cross-functional teams.

Ability to interact and communicate effectively with employees at all levels, both senior and junior.

Knowledge of Tableau and Access is a plus.

Fluent in English in a business environment.