Retail Planning Manager (Temporary)

Job Description

Step into the vibrant world of LEGO Retail Planning, where your expertise will help us craft the future of our iconic brand. 

As a key player in shaping demand forecasts and driving business performance, you'll collaborate with a dynamic team, dive into exciting retail trends, and ensure our products reach eager shoppers everywhere! 

** This is a temporary position with a duration of approximately 6 months based on business needs. **

Core Responsibilities: 

• Item Planning: Own a subset of the LEGO Retail portfolio, delivering a robust item-level CS forecast each cycle. Incorporating the latest trends and inputs to contribute to an SI forecast, including WOC settings for a full 18-month horizon  

• S&OP Cycle: Lead / contribute to the various AMS meetings within the monthly S&OP cycle, including local input discussions and novelty benchmarking forums 

• Commercial: Engage with partners across LEGO Retail to articulate performance & outlook for subset of portfolio. Represent AMS planning team in the Consumer Performance Huddle working closely with LBR/LEGO.COM channel owners to drive LEGO Retail KPI’s. 

• Reporting & analysis: Analyze and understand drivers of retail performance with a focus on improving Item Mix error. Leverage own reports (Tableau/Power BI) in combination with BI produced insights, to help improve the quality of forward-looking plans. 

• Collaboration & Coherence: Ability to integrate/distill marketing insights/activity at a theme/channel level in to an item level forecast. Discuss and present data and findings with RPMI team and relevant partners to secure an aligned view on the best possible plan. 

• General Support: Support the regional planning team with key monthly tasks, including but not limited to: 

• Update and issue of standard reports 

• Preparation of slides for regular monthly meetings 

• o9 Retail Planning: Drive adoption and contribute to process design for new retail planning system embedding in to monthly planning cycle. 

Play your part in our team succeeding! 

The Retail Planning team is a global group responsible for developing an 18-month demand plan across LEGO-owned branded channels, including both physical stores and online platforms.  

This role supports the team and the broader organization by securing a strong foundation for our forecasts, so we have the best possible availability and can reach the desired shoppers. Furthermore, it enables the team and partners with insight to performance and trends so appropriate actions can be taken timely. 

Do you have what it takes? 

• Proven experience working in a planning role in a retail environment. 

• Strong proficiency in analyzing retail sales trends, inventory data & shopper behavior & converting to an item level CS forecast. 

• Experience working with qualitative input (marketing) & converting to actionable data for decision making. 

• Demonstrates a clear understanding of how a retailer operates (both physical & digital) and can articulate underlying drivers of business performance & health. 

• Skilled and confident presenter, adept at articulating viewpoints clearly and persuasively to diverse audiences  

• Proficiency in the use of forecasting models & their application for retail planning e.g ML, Time Series. 

• Strong understanding of c