Senior Planner, Apparel & Equipment

How You Will Make a Difference

What you will do:

• As a member of the Product Supply’s Global Planning team, you are responsible for analyzing, managing, and executing longer-term, strategic planning tasks related to long range capacity planning, pre & in-season supply planning process to optimize supply availability to global markets.
• You are responsible to assess and mitigate any potential supply risk due to demand variations, capacity constraints, fabric and materials constraints and forecast variances etc.
• To succeed, you will have to build strong relationship with internal (Product Supply teams & Brand teams) and external stakeholders (vendors). You will utilize your strong analytical skill sets to drive decision making that ensures processes are integrated and aligned across all regions.
• Manage end-to-end analyses; identify issues, gather information from various sources, analyze data, interpret patterns and trends, build models, give recommendations, and create insightful automated reports.

How you will do it:

• Support the Planning Manager on current planning processes and key areas of responsibility and making process improvements for efficiency and in line with team and company strategy.
• Support long range planning (Multi Horizon Planning) activities with internal and external stakeholders – drawing up robust plans that are aligned with the sourcing strategy and address key planning scenarios.
• Understand demand forecasts and market information from regions and use this to drive conversations and decisions for seasonal and long-range planning.
• Carry out analyses to discover possible risks in supply and plan.
• Execute the buy process to optimize the product availability, including analyzing and finalizing the PR allocation, projecting the planned production date and aligning the CRD with vendors.
• Automate and validate newly created reports and develop corrective actions to improve data integrity and quality.
• Analyze existing reports and optimize them for standardization across the company.
• Support ad-hoc data requests, reporting.

Competency Requirements:

Behavioral Competencies:

• Team player with an ability to function effectively in a dynamic, fast-paced environment.
• Embrace change proactively takes action to prepare the team to respond to changes.
• Ensure effective internal and external communication. Drive internal and external collaboration.
• Able to work under pressure with multiple tasks simultaneously while meeting tight deadlines.
• Analytical mind and business acumen, able to work with large amount of data to discover trends and capable to form conclusions based on findings. Must be extremely detailed oriented.
• Experience with working in a team spread out in various geographical locations.
• Value diversity - working effectively with individuals of diverse cultures, interpersonal styles, abilities, motivations, or backgrounds. Highest level of integrity, ethics, and honesty; agility.
• Drive and passion – always present a positive outlook and demonstrates a growth mindset.

Functional Competencies:

• Excellent English (writing and speaking) skills.
• Excellent Excel, Power Point and Presentation skill.
• Adept at the use of analytics tools as SQL, Tableau, Python, Power BI, Knime
• Experience with planning system an advantage. Possesses deep functional subject matter knowledge.
• Understanding of supply chain processes, with experience in forecasting and S&OP.

Skills for Success

Years of related professional experience: 2-4 years of relevant experience

Educational position requirements: A formal education and subsequent undergraduate/graduate degrees are nice to have, but we are most interested in your total experience and professional achievements.

What we expect you already know:

• Prior experience in supply chain planning (demand/ supply) and set up and maintain BI tools, infrastructure, and integration with company data sources.
• Strong written and oral communication skills. Leadership management skill is a plus.