Sr. Planner, Global Merchandise Planning

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. 

 

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

 

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive.

Primary Purpose: The GMP Senior Planner will play a centralized role in creating and executing global merchandise strategies to align product offering with global financial and consumer goals for kate spade new york

 

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Planning to...

 

 

Global Assortment Planning 

• Forecast new trends and study sales history to make focused investment & consumer led recommendations
• Create seasonal, global financial framework for categories
• Drive global investments against key product strategies across markets
• Concisely summarizes investments and highlight areas of risk and opportunity
• Build actionable strategies around risks and opportunities identified in the global business
• Support with volume assumptions on seasonal newness investments 
• Partner to provide global product lifecycle guidance 

 

Global Sales Reporting

• Provide analysis and reporting to identify global and regional product trends
• Report global best sellers, assess success of newness launches, noting key variance by region and consumer
• Continuously leverage analysis, product trends, and productivity to inform global assortment

 

Other 

• Fosters effective teamwork and communication with key business partners (i.e., Global Merchandising, Supply Operations, Brand Operations, Business Unit buying teams, Product Development)
• Becomes product expert in areas of responsibility

Our Competencies for All Employees

 

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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; analyze