Senior Planner and Allocator Manager

Per azienda cliente del settore Luxury, con sede a Milano, siamo attualmente alla ricerca di una figura di Senior Planner and Allocator Manager.

Responsibilities

La figura si occuperà delle seguenti attività:

• Manage and organize the Merchandising Planning process for the team during monthly Forecast and before Seasonal buys.
• Collaborate with Merchandising Team to identify growth opportunities and business challenges during planning process and work collaboratively to ensure plans meet company objectives
• Provide analysis and research to support the creation of by store/department plans collaborating with Retail, Merchandising and Finance
• Develop and oversee markdown strategies that tie to gross margin objectives on a seasonal basis in collaboration with finance local and global teams
• Manages the open to buy process; forecasting sales, markdowns and receipts to maximize opportunity and minimize risk
• Provide analysis and create monthly/quarterly reports for Merchandising Team as well as run weekly business recaps
• Analyze and reflect current trends in performance of strategy based on actual sales performance; revise in-season forecasts for sales and profitability based on current performance.
• Manage and own the Replenishment business overseeing sales projections, assortment mix, and inventory flow working directly with the Buying Team
• Analyze selling by model, fabric, color and size for replenishment program to provide feedback to the Global team in order to improve future purchase decisions.

Your Profile

Verranno prese in considerazione figure in possesso dei seguenti requisiti:

• 3-5 years of previous planning/allocating experience
• Strong planning/forecasting skills including retail math, inventory flow/measures and metrics, and understanding of forecasting methodology
• Able to prioritize multiple projects with varying deadlines 
• Ability to adapt to different strategies with uncertain outcomes
• Exhibit a strong work ethic, effective leadership skills, flexibility/adaptability and outstanding organization/attention to detail
• Able to problem solve in a self-sufficient, resourceful manner resulting in creative, sound solutions
• Possess exemplary verbal/written communication skills as well as interpersonal aptitude across all levels of an organization
• Able to work productively in a team environment while also working autonomously, demonstrating strong initiative
• Proficient in all Microsoft Office applications, especially Microsoft Advanced Excel & Power BI
• Working knowledge of retail systems e.g. CEGID, etc.

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