Key Responsibilities:

• Assisting in formulating the Planning strategy, implementing new processes to optimise sales, stock and margin.
• Collate seasonal analysis and insight into price, colour, size, margin and other metrics. 
• Maintain WSSI and Line cards, making recommendations on rebuy dates and volumes required. 
• Manage OTB, trade in-season, analysing sales patterns and identifying risks and opportunities.
• Proactively develop working relationships with key retail contacts maximising every opportunity to educate the wider team on Planning processes. 
• Together with Operational teams, support execute & maintain industry best practice throughout the network and     improve internal and external operations processes.
• Work with production to optimize speed to market. 
• Support and develop the retail performance of other Wholesale doors & special projects, including pop-ups, installations & activations.
• As the department grows this candidate will be key to support in training and development of other team members. 

Requirements:

• Previous P&L accountability with highly effective numerical and financial skills.
• Trading mentality, able to work at pace, challenge results and create new solutions. 
• Excellent understanding of retail process, systems and KPI’s.
• Organisational skills and a demonstrated ability to multi-task and manage varying stakeholder requirements.
• Influencing skills with an ability to deal with complex issues whilst maintaining strong relationships at all levels.
• Preferable experience in a fast pace, high growth business, comfortable with ambiguity.
• Feeling comfortable with a hands on role and can work autonomously.