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EMEA Demand & Inventory Planner
The Team
Within the Omni Planning & Allocation team, our mission is to drive commercial trade, financial planning, demand forecasting, and allocation & replenishment of inventory across all channels and categories, whilst setting strategic guardrails on product promotions and markdown decisions to maximize margin and profitability. This position's team serves as the backbone of our department, collaborating closely with Buying/Merchandising, DTC Channel teams (eCom, FP, Outlet), Hubs, and Finance to ensure that all inventory and product decisions are aligned with company-wide planning and allocation decisions. With an integral position in the team, the role contributes significantly to the department's operational efficiency, strategic growth, and overall success.
The Position
As EMEA Demand & Inventory Planner, you will be crucial to the Omni Planning and Allocation team. You will contribute to the Total EMEA seasonal demand forecasting and buy planning, for certain product categories or divisions, collaborating closely with DTC channels and Hubs/Wholesale Key Account Planning teams to support sales, margin, and inventory goals. This role is vital for achieving the Omni Planning and Allocation objectives and your work will be key to the commercial success of the TH brand.
Key Responsibilities:
Long term planning: Provide insights to support long-range planning processes and support top-down seasonal sales, margin, and inventory plans and strategies to meet corporate financial targets.
Merchandise strategy: Collaborate with DTC Buying, Merchandising and Wholesale Account teams to align product category demand forecasts with seasonal product strategies.
Demand planning: Create EMEA option level demand plans for the seasonal product category, in partnership with Merchandising counterparts, improving accuracy of sell in vs forecast.
Integrated Demand Planning (IDP): Input into IDP process with seasonal Product Category demand plans and growth strategies that will deliver on Sales & Margin targets. Partner closely with DTC channels and Hubs/Wholesale Key Account Planning teams to ensure product demand plans reconcile against channel demand.
Range planning: Contribute demand insights into the seasonal range planning process, reviewing option counts, volume segmentation, and customer needs across channels.
Buy quantification: Support in quantifying seasonal buy recommendations for Mainline and the pass off of consolidated, sized buys to Planning Operations team.
Continuous improvement: Implement and exploit new systems and processes to continually increase team efficiency.
Note: Responsibilities include, but are not limited to, those listed above. The role may require additional tasks and duties as assigned to meet the needs of the department and organization.
Measures of Success
• Sales & revenue: Sales and revenue in line with targets, including net sales, net margin
• Liability: EMEA fabric Liability / buy accuracy
• Planning accuracy: high levels of demand planning accuracy across planning KPIs
Requirements
• 3-5+ years of experience in wholesale planning, demand planning, or merch planning within a fashion, retail, or consumer goods environment.
• Sound expertise in demand and wholesale planning with a sound understanding in demand driven merchandise financials.
• Commercial and results-driven mindset, with the ability to understand short-term sales needs with long-term strategic planning.
• Sound analytical skills with experience in data-driven decision-making, leveraging insights to optimize buying strategies.
• Stakeholder management skills, collaborating effectively with Merchandising, DTC Merch Planning & Buying, Hub Wholesale teams, Planning Operations, Global Counterparts and Supply Chain teams
• Problem solving: understanding of how to solve complex problems and critically assess the solutions required
• Highly adaptable and proactive, thriving in a fast-paced, evolving retail environment.
• Fluency in English
• Education: Bachelor's degree in business, finance, economics or retail preferred
Your Wellbeing is Our Priority
In the heart of Amsterdam, PVH is home to the global headquarters of Tommy Hilfiger and the European offices of Calvin Klein.
Wellbeing: exclusive onsite gym and fitness classes, personal training, meditation studio, sports clubs, in-house physio, and receive access to our nutritional and wellbeing programs
Campus: extensive food and beverage offerings, top-notch restaurant, barista coffee bars, sky bar, monthly social events, weekly Thursday drinks, game nights, and campus-themed activities that will keep your social life busy
Develop your career: whether you lead a team or contribute your own expertise, everyone is a leader at PVH. PVH University curates and delivers training programs for you to continuously develop your professional and personal goals
Be at the forefront: stay closely connected to our brands, CALVIN KLEIN and TOMMY HILFIGER, and be a part of seasonal market launches, sample sales and receive employee discounts!
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About PVH:
We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That’s the Power of Us, that’s the Power of PVH+.
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