Planner I - Womens Apparel

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Planner I - Women's Apparel

Date: Jun 10, 2022

Location: Remote, US

Company: Under Armour

Position Summary

The Planner I – Women’s Apparel will assist with the development of seasonal targets, the conception of the Women’s global line architecture and is responsible for the creation of the Merchandise Plan at the style level. The Planner I is a strategic partner to the Merchants and Product line managers. A Planner 1 is expected to work cross functionally to ensure execution of strategic initiatives and provide visibility to key stakeholders. As well as understand and articulate the health of the business back to the team, present opportunities or risks, and influence decisions making around segmentation, allocations, pricing strategies and flow.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

Build and maintain top line targets for sales growth, demand, style/SKU counts, and $ productivity for each go to market season.

Inform and influence the strategic long-term vision, inclusive of line architecture, allocations, pricing and article flow. Leverage data/analytics including: Sell-through, Sell-in, Color analytics, and market share.

Establish plans that ultimately mirror back to seasonal targets and corporate 5YP strategies. Managing and measuring forecast starting at a class level and later disseminate into style level plans.

Review and analyze complex historical trends & data to optimize future forecasts & to inform strategies and action plans. Understand and articulate the health of the business back to the team. Use data-driven analysis to model risks and opportunities to current business with cross functional partners.

Reporting: Utilize a multitude of databases to prepare and present performance scorecards (sell through results, future opportunities/risks). Partner with Women’s team to ensure full understanding of quarterly business reviews and complete ad-hoc analysis as needed.

Ensure accurate maintenance of planning-owned data fields. Complete published templates to facilitate target/ plan submissions.

Qualifications (Knowledge, Skills & Abilities)

Ability identify and synthesize complex data.

Problem solving skills to identify root cause and potential solves of reporting and forecasting anomalies.

Communication skills to clearly explain forecast logic to cross functional stakeholders. Problem solving skills to identify root cause and potential solves of reporting and forecasting anomalies.

Excellent partnership, collaboration, and presentation skills.

Excellent in Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Tableau & BI reporting tools; planning system experience a plus.

Track record of hitting time lines and deliverables in a fast-paced environment.

Proficient in retail math, forecasting methodology and excel skills.

Education And / Or Experience

Bachelor's Degree or related experience.

Minimum 1-2 years merchandise planning, store planning, inventory or other business planning experience

Other Requirements

Location: remote

Relocation

No relocation provided

Company info

Under Armour, Inc.
Website : http://www.underarmour.com