Merchandise Planner, Global Merchandise Planning – Calvin Klein Apparel
PVH
- Brooklyn, NY
- $90,000-105,000 per year
- Permanent
- Full-time
- Own Global regions’ pre-season buy projections by classification, program, Heros/Essentials, product segmentation for all KPIs at Go-to-Consumer milestones
- Set topline financial targets and provide planning guidance for all projections and buys to ensure proper penetration by product category and mix
- Compile and analyze quarterly, seasonal, annual actualized shipments, style/sku counts, and margins for Regional channels. Monitor actuals against projections to understand business results and share insights on variances.
- Identify product and delivery flow wins/risks and cross-channel opportunities to drive assortment strategies
- Analyze and identify opportunities to improve sku efficiency by monitoring pre-season development and adoption rates and in-season sales productivity to eliminate unproductive skus and drive selling productivity
- Ensure style/sku planning attributes are consistent with evolving product line architecture
- Analyze selling performance across Global regions and Regional channels
- In-Season/Post-season business opportunity
- WTD/MTD selling analysis and share out
- QTD/STD selling hindsights
- Top line sales and sales trends
- Best and worst sellers; color selling
- Assortment updates and learnings
- Provide both qualitative and quantitative analysis at quarterly and seasonal hindsights and investment reviews, drawing insights to affect future product line architecture
- Perform margin and cost analysis to ensure margin targets are achieved, and highlight risks and variances
- Drive weekly business discussions with Global Merchandising and Regional channels to analyze the business, digging deeper into selling trends
- Develop and evolve standardized reports and processes to drive efficiencies and advance the team’s productivity
- Solicit and perform ad-hoc analysis as needed
- Highly proficient in Excel, Word, PowerPoint
- Knowledge of ACS, SAP, 7th On-Line, MicroStrategy/Lighthouse, Miro/Visulon preferred
- Excellent Analytical and Retail Math Skills
- Strong time management skills, attention to detail, problem solving, interpersonal and organizational skills – communication between functional groups is critical
- Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills