Manager, Channel Planning

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• Lead the development of bottom-up demand plans and bottom-up merchandising financial plan (if any) for the channel, ensuring alignment with overall regional and business strategies.
• Lead the creation of what/if scenarios to guide leadership decisions, providing insights on channel profitability and risks.
• Lead the tracking, testing, and analysis of contingency pricing strategies, providing detailed reports and recommendations to improve channel performance.
• Own the development and management of weekly demand and pricing plans across categories (full price, promotions, markdowns) to ensure alignment with financial and sales targets.
• Lead the planning of size eligibility, floorsets, and replenishment management, ensuring channel strategies are executed effectively.
• Partner with Regional Merchandise Financial Planning teams to reconcile top-down and bottom-up plans, ensuring consistency and accuracy.
• Work with China Channel Merchandising to align the bottom-up financial plan with the assortment strategy, ensuring inventory and sales goals are met.
• Lead the gathering and analysis of hindsight data, sharing insights at key meetings and influencing future channel strategies.
• Collaborate with channel business teams and other departments to ensure channel financial plans are integrated with overall business initiatives.
• Continuously monitor financial and product performance against targets, making proactive adjustments to meet channel goals.
• Guide and mentor a team of planners, fostering collaboration and team development whilst ensuring alignment with organizational and team goals to drive successful outcomes.
• Manage weekly channel demand forecast at style-color level both for pre-season and in –season, corresponding to merchandising finical plan and inventory KPIs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field.
• 5+ years of experience in Sales or Merch Planning, Demand Planning and Allocation.
• Experience in the apparel or footwear industry is preferred.
• Proven track record of developing and executing successful Channel strategies.
• Proficient in channel planning, scenario planning, and long-range forecasting using market trends, financial plans, consumer insights, and historical data.
• Robust analytical skills with the ability to influence by interpreting complex data to drive decision making.
• Ability to collaborate across teams and senior leaders and expertly communicate complex data insights and algorithm-driven findings to non-technical stakeholders
• Expertise in conducting comprehensive financial analyses and generating detailed reports that drive decision-making.
• Ability to lead financial strategy development, integrating financial acumen into overall business strategy and planning initiatives.
• Leadership & change-readiness skills with a proven ability to lead, mentor and develop team members
• Skilled in using data analysis and visualization tools, with direct experience in Blue Yonder’s Planning module.