Timberland: Senior Planner Margin & Profitability

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Sr. Planner Margin & Profitability (Timberland)

What will you do?

A day in the life of a Sr. Planner Margin & Profitability at Timberland looks a little like this.

The primary responsibility of the Sr. Planner Margin and Profitability is to support the development and implementation of tools/processes to drive product classification margin strategy, champion revenue growth and margin management principles , and improving profitability. You will work closely and collaboratively with Global Product leaders, Planning, Supply Chain, GTM and Finance departments in creating the strategy and the executional plan to achieve brand strategic, financial, and distribution products goals.

Reporting to the Head of Planning, you will help and drive the monitoring and managing of pricing strategy and profit related decisions, through the go-to-market cycle, to meet the gross margin business requirements and while consumer/marketplace price elasticity trends.

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

• Support the Planning team in developing analytical framework used to inform strategically and tactically merchandising strategies, providing qualitative and quantitative analysis on business and product performance, globally and regionally.

• Conduct global analysis of essential product KPIs with visibility to long-term risk and opportunity and in the context of Brand and Market strategies

• Research macroeconomic and industry trends that impact the margin and pricing approach

• Develop, update, and maintain evaluation and pricing strategies to test and deploy best practices constantly

• Collaborate with other functions and senior management to evaluate the cost/benefit of different pricing models to maximize and scale margin, on both new and carryover products

• Work with complex data sets to help the business determine and set competitive prices to gain market share, achieve revenue goals and optimize margin

• Working cross-functionally to develop product, go-to-market strategy, profit and loss, and pricing strategies globally

• Ensure product merchandising plans by product category and classification align with financial and brand strategies, partnering with Global category team to track progress against target, to achieve global and regional revenue & margin goals

• Build Financial modeling to calculate impacts of potential business strategies

• Ad hoc reporting and special projects, primarily related to understanding product costs, factory output, and the enhancement of financial performance

• Support identifying target across product line, through design and development phases and at concept stage, ensuring that the Global and regional product teams clearly understand target fabric, trims, and labor costs to achieve the desired margin

• Be the ‘go-to’ person for all pricing/profit queries from design, development, merchandising, supply teams and finance

• Support the team in translating global strategic targets into seasonal and product specific targets, partnering with business leaders to build/elevate global margin planning process with clear visibility around demand, price, and costs for key platforms