Director Planning - Tommy Hilfiger

Profile

The Director, Planning develops, executes and communicates strategic merchandise financial plans that support the company’s financial, product, and marketing objectives; responsible for driving top line financial plans from a divisional level to a department/category level, strategically managing the business in order to maximize sales and margin, and optimizing inventory; develops and contributes to the development of Brand initiatives, and ensures that all planning activities support annual goals. 

Responsibilities:

Create strategic financial plans that support the company’s objectives and brand goals from a top down and bottom up perspective:

• At a division/department/class level, develop sales, gross margin, and inventory plans that support the company’s profit objectives.  Collaborate with direct reports in planning and the merchandising team to ensure that financial objectives align with product opportunities
• Lead the planning and merchandising team, utilizing historical data and current trends, to capitalize on new opportunities, and identify risks.  Understand opportunities and risks from direct reports and communicate to key business partners including merchandising, finance, marketing, visual, and brand leaders
• Develop, train and lead planning team
• Partner closely with allocation team on a daily basis to ensure product strategies are executed to the store level
• Partner with the Production team on projections and buy passoffs

Weekly Business Management:

• Meet with planners to understand weekly forecasts, category opportunities and risks, markdown recommendations, and reflowing of inventory.  Ensure that all decisions are based on historical data and/or current trends and collect information to create global action plans
• Present “action points” to senior management and gain consensus on business approach
• Manage seasonal liabilities, inventory by source, and delivery performance at a divisional level.  Guide planners to tactically manage liabilities and drive opportunities
• Partner with Allocation on allocation strategies daily

Buy Review Prep:

• Meet with planning team to review historical performance at the category and key item level.  Understand and validate analysis by source, delivery, and category to merchants to understand prior performance and develop future goals
• Pre-season create divisional and departmental plans to support the development of the line
• Set sales, margin, flow, and IMU goals prior to the planning of each delivery.  Reconcile tops down and bottom up forecasts prior to the passing of receipts to the merchant organization
• Participate in buy review with merchants, planners, and allocators to ensure appropriate breadth and depth, and flawless execution.  Collaborate with lead merchants to ensure that plans support product goals
• Lead and facilitate buy finalization meeting with merchant.  Review pre-season plans that support new assortment.  Identify risks and opportunities relative to product, flow, and presentation

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Managing and Developing Talent:

• Create a dynamic team environment that encourages collaboration and creativity within the business unit and across brands
• Lead planning team ensuring that all company objectives and current and future business plans are executed.  Provide clear direction to all levels managing details as appropriate
• Identify top talent and infuse new bench strength within organization to support succession planning
• Train, develop, and manage direct reports to support succession planning initiatives.   Offer consistent and timely feedback to direct reports

Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree

• Minimum  5-7  years merchandise planning experience;  7 - 10 years of total work experience

• Need to be very resourceful and creative to develop new systems and procedures to address constant evolving business needs. Must be able to handle multiple tasks efficiently in order to meet deadlines. Must be able to think out of the box to find solutions to demanding business requirements

• Flexibility required to respond to changing needs of the business with adherence to deadlines

• Project management skillset                                        
• Presenting and recommending strategies and building a business case
• Driving business to exceed company plans
• Leading and developing a team of at least 3 direct reports
• Strategic forecasting for a multidimensional business
• Assuming additional areas of accountability successfully
• Influencing and negotiating at a variety of levels
• Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including presenting complex material in an organized and compelling manner
• Well-versed in planning and allocation systems, as well as advanced Microsoft windows applications
• JDA experience, a plus
• SAP experience, a plus

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The Company will not sponsor applicants to this position for work visas or any other work permits

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Company info

PVH Corp
Website : http://www.pvh.com/