Senior Planner

Job Title: APAC Senior Merchandise Planner – Full Price

Department: Merchandise Planning

Reporting to: Senior Director of Merchandise Planning

Role Purpose:

Drive APAC business by running the region’s Omni merchandise planning processes, including Location & OTB forecasts as well as trading to optimize bestsellers and desrisk slower stocks.

Context:

Jimmy Choo operates in 190+ directly operated stores across 11 regions in 14 currencies as well as a growing E-commerce platform and Omni-channel services. Buying and planning is organised through 4 teams in Europe, USA, Japan and Asia. Each region operates an Open to Buy based on financial budgets and is divided into twice yearly seasonal plans and monthly forecasting and reordering of continuative styles.

Key Accountabilities:

• Achieve and drive assigned business goals and objectives including sales, inventory, and gross margin.
• Understand sales curves through use of history and planning building blocks.
• Create Open to Buys, in conjunction with Merchandising lessons learnt, summarising plans for the Global team.
• Control stock levels across the region, proposing and monitoring country stock targets and KPIs.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to improve sales performance through stock transfers or reorders
• Work closely with the regional Merchandise Buying teams to determine the topline Seasonal OTB strategy prior to the seasonal buying campaign, presenting the key targets to the CEO / CFO and Global Merchandising Teams
• Determine the OTB requirement by store and set up the Seasonal Option Plan for all departments ahead of the Seasonal Buying Campaign
• Oversee the Sizing strategy for the Seasonal buys and Continuity reorders, incorporating changing market and client profile needs
• Implement robust Markdown strategies to optimize the markdown inventory and ensure store markdown budgets / reforecasts are achieved
• Be responsible for the monthly reordering and forecasting of continuative lines, ensuring stock availability is balanced with stock turn.
• Manage all Product Reports and Sales Analysis for business in Asia Pacific
• Produce trade commentary on a weekly and monthly basis
• Collate comprehensive hindsight analysis to develop product and inventory strategies.
• Ad-hoc sales analysis for senior management.
• Ultilise Merchandise Planning Tool for efficient working practices
• Roll up all reports across the APAC region and present to CEO/CFO

Qualification/Education

• Graduate calibre

Experience Required

• 5 years merchandising planning experience within a fashion retail background, preferably within a luxury brand
• Experience of an Omni-channel retailer would be advantageous (e.g. in store ordering and fulfilling e-commerce orders from store)
• Experience working with a Merchandise Planning tool would be advantageous

Particular skills/knowledge required

• Advanced Excel skills essential, with the ability to handle large data sets
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with exceptional reporting capabilities and attention to detail
• Commercial awareness to maximise sales and profit opportunities
• Knowledge of supply chain processes, particularly replenishment systems.
• Excellent communication skills

Characteristics required

Inspirational

• Courageous, passionate and open-minded
• Full of energy and drive

Commercial

• Driven to grow shareholder value
• Analytical (good interpreter of information and story teller)
• Strategic
• Detail conscious
• Decision maker
• Problem solver
• Consumer centric

Impact and Influence

• Persuasive Influencer and challenger
• Coach
• Approachable
• Articulate, succinct and effective communicator to all parties.
• Planner, Objective organized thinker

Ambassador

• Able to represent Jimmy Choo internally and externally with passion
• Culturally aware

Personally resilient

• Able to handle pressure
• Deadline and delivery driven
• Independent
• Rational/Logical
• Tenacious

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