Manager, Global Merchandise Planning, Apparel - Calvin Klein

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About the Role:

The Merchandise Planning Manager will be key partner to Global Merchandising and Global regions/ Regional channels to understand and address product opportunities and challenges. They will be responsible for creating and presenting targets and initiatives to continue to strategically drive the growth of the business.  They will develop Global seasonal product plans, analyze sku productivity, perform in-season and post-season hindsight reporting across Regional channels by collaborating effectively with cross-functional partners.

What You'll Do:

Product Strategy:

• Own Global regions’ pre-season buy projections for key classifications, programs, Heros/Essentials, product segmentation for all KPIs at Go-to-Consumer milestones

• Develop top-down and bottom-up financial targets and provide planning guidance for all projections and buys to ensure proper penetration by product category and mix

• Engage Global regions/Regional channels’ Buying/Planning/Sales teams to develop strategies, identify opportunities, and address regional needs and voids in assortment and buys

• Compile and analyze quarterly, seasonal, annual actualized shipments, style/sku counts, and margins for Regional channels.  Monitor actuals against projections to understand business results and share insights on variances.

• Identify product and delivery flow wins/risks and cross-channel opportunities to drive assortment strategies

• Analyze and identify opportunities to improve sku efficiency by monitoring pre-season development and adoption rates and in-season sales productivity to eliminate unproductive skus and drive selling productivity

• Ensure style/sku planning attributes are consistent with evolving product line architecture

• Influence line architecture, SKU productivity, and product lifecycle strategies

• Translate merchandising strategies into financial targets, category frameworks, and investment guardrails

• Manage and drive global product margin targets across all milestones of product development

• Build global projection frameworks to support capacity planning, cost negotiation, and margin improvement initiatives

Business Analysis:

• Analyze selling performance across Global regions and Regional channels

  • In-Season/Post-season business opportunity

    • WTD/MTD selling analysis and share out

    • QTD/STD selling hindsights

  • Top line sales and sales trends

  • Best and worst sellers; color selling

  • Assortment updates and learnings

• Provide both qualitative and quantitative analysis at quarterly and seasonal hindsights and investment reviews, drawing insights to affect future product line architecture

• Perform margin and cost analysis to ensure margin targets are achieved, and highlight risks and variances

• Drive weekly business discussions with Global Merchandising and Regional channels to analyze the business, digging deeper into selling trends

• Develop and evolve standardized reports and processes to drive efficiencies and advance the team’s productivity

• Solicit and perform ad-hoc analysis as needed

• Manage, train, and develop Merchandise Planner

• Lead scenario planning and risk mitigation strategies to support dynamic business needs

• Collaborate with Finance to align top-down and bottom-up targets

• Analyze in-season business performance across categories, regions, and channels to identify growth drivers and risks

• To identify product opportunities and assortment gaps for future seasons

• Conduct buy review of regional assortments to ensure alignment with global product strategies and investment priorities

Key Partnerships

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