Strategic Planner

2 months ago

Shanghai, Shanghai, China Tapestry Full time
Job Title: Senior Planner

Department: Planning & Allocation

Reports to: Assistant Manager, Planning

Location: Shanghai

Kate Spade New York is a global life and style house that has always stood for optimistic femininity. As a Senior Planner, you will be part of the Tapestry portfolio, a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.

The Role:

  • Develop and manage the top-line merchandising and financial plan, and lead a monthly forecast process to measure results against the division's financial and merchandising objectives.
  • Partner with the Buying Team to create seasonal receipt plans that support product strategies and achieve inventory productivity metrics; evaluate the seasonal buys against financial targets.
  • Collaborate with the Global Inventory Control team on monthly deliveries of rolling forecast KPI review.
  • Work with regional and global finance teams on DR% and Margin control.
  • Manage the Open-to-Buy to support the Retail/Outlet/Online business in Greater China.
  • Provide weekly selling reports and summarize results, providing insight on current trends and analysis of potential risks and opportunities to company executives.
  • Prepare multi-scenario analysis to understand the sales, margin, and inventory impact of key business decisions.
  • Partner with the Allocation/Inventory Management team to ensure each store is in proper stock position going into each season.
  • Provide ad-hoc reporting and projects requested by Senior Management.
  • Liaise with the Global Planning team in NY to align strategies and support global inventory management.
  • Provide direction to the allocation/inventory management team and buying team on assortment cleaning and liquidation plans.

Requirements:

  • Understanding of the key drivers of Retail/EC metrics and Inventory productivity.
  • Well-developed analytical skills with a demonstrated ability to generate executive summaries of detailed analysis.
  • Strong leadership and problem-solving skills, adaptability/flexibility, and self-motivated initiative.
  • Strong interpersonal skills, with a proven ability to work in a collaborative environment across all levels of management.
  • Outstanding attention to detail.
  • Excellent communication skills, both written and verbal.
  • Proven ability to multitask and prioritize in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
  • High proficiency in Excel and Excel-based modeling and data management, including Pivot tables.

Competencies:

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
  • 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.

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.
  • Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in his/her 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.
  • Managerial 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.

Kate Spade 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. Visit Kate Spade

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