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Associate Planner - Calvin Klein

The Associate Planner develops, executes, and communicates strategic merchandise financial plans that support the company’s financial, product and marketing objectives under the direction of the Director of Planning; strategically drives the business in order to enhance sales and margin, and optimize inventory; contributes to the execution of brand initiatives, and ensures that all planning activities support annual goals!

 

Responsibilities:

Build financial / Assortment plans that support the company’s objectives and brand goals:

• At channel / department / season level, develop sales, gross margin, and inventory plans that support the company’s profit objectives.  Review all strategies with Director of Planning to ensure they are in line with total company

• Provide the merchandising team with historical data and current trends, to capitalize on new opportunities, and identify risks.  Communicate opportunities and risks to sr. planner/ planning director

• Building pre-season bottoms up assortment plans which support both the merchandising and planning objectives; build out the assortment architecture that the buying team uses to build assortments

Weekly Business Management:

• Analyze business performance to find opportunities and mitigate risks to forecast, including recommending markdowns, and reflowing inventory as needed.  Ensure that all decisions are based on historical data and/or current trends

• Present “action points” to cross functional teams and gain consensus on business

• Run seasonal liabilities, inventory by channel, and recommend reflow of new deliveries as needed

• Lead weekly pricing and develop markdown strategies to optimize sell-through and profitability

• Partner with Inventory Planning team to ensure on time deliveries for floorset, as well as perform independent analysis as needed

Pre-Season / In-Season Planning:

• Partner with merchandising to develop forecast for sales, margin, and inventory for both stores and ecommerce based off historical data and  trends

• Own Monthly Open-to-Buy (OTB) process by Department / category / season

• Supervise monthly performance to sales, inventory, margin and sell through targets

• Pre-meet with divisional leadership to gain consensus prior to monthly.   Open to Buy meeting

• Present at the monthly OTB meeting providing guidance to business leaders

• Recommend strategic actions to improve sales and margin, optimize inventory, and mitigate risk

• Manage the receipt reconciliation process with merchant team.  Ensure that on order and committed receipts are delivering in time to support forecasts

Strategy and Buy Review:

• Review historical performance at the category and key item level.  Present analysis by category, delivery/season and channel to merchants to understand prior performance and develop future goals

• Pre-season, create department, category and core plans to support the development of the line

• Provide receipt plans, margin and IMU goals, and flow strategies to merchants to drive assortment execution

• Review and reconcile assortments with Director of Planning and Inventory Planners to ensure appropriate breadth and depth, and detailed execution

• Participate in buy finalization meeting with merchants.  Present initial pre-season plans that support new assortment.  Identify risks and opportunities relative to product, flow, and presentation

• Lock plans seasonally and ensure that any re-forecasting of sales, margin, or inventory (based on changes in trends) is reflected as new assortments are delivered

• Resolve depth, breadth and flow strategy of inventory by location/channel, with the intention of increasing sales, margin and sell-through

• Analyze adjustments to style/color plans based on risks/opportunities, promotional events and business needs

•   Responsible for developing and performing to the financial plans at the category / week level
• Responsible for reviewing the business and highlighting trends (negative and positive) on a weekly basis; build proposals relative to weekly action plans

Qualifications:

• College degree; advanced degree, a plus
• At least 1.5 year of planning and/or allocation experience; 3+ years of work experience; store experience a plus

• Communicating, recommended strategies and buildinging a business case

• Strategic forecasting for a multidimensional business

• Assuming additional areas of accountability successfully

• Influencing and negotiating at a variety of levels

• Well-developed written/verbal communication skills, including communicating complex material in an organized and compelling manner

• Proficient in planning and allocation systems, as well as sophisticated Microsoft Windows applications

• Possesses the ability to learn new systems and planning methodologies; develops new analyses to gain greater insight into the business; comprehension of large data sets

• Limited local travel for store visits; fast-paced work environment

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

Pay Range:$65,400 - $88,500

PVH currently provides base salary ranges for all positions-on job advertisements-in the United States based on local requirements. These ranges are based on what PVH reasonably believes that it will pay an associate for their base salary for said position at the time of the posting. Individual compensation will ultimately be determined based on a variety of relevant factors including but-not limited to qualifications, geographic location and other relevant skills. PVH is committed to providing a market-competitive total rewards package to eligible associates, which includes diverse and robust health and insurance benefits to meet the varied needs of our associates and an above-market 401(k) contribution to help our associates save for retirement. We also offer career growth opportunities, empowering our associates to design their future at PVH.

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary ("PVH") is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications, consistent with applicable law and without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH also has a strong corporate commitment to inclusion, diversity and to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential. To achieve these goals, across the United States and its territories, PVH prohibits any PVH employee, agent or representative from requesting or otherwise considering any job applicant’s current or prior wages, salary or other compensation information in connection with the hiring process. Accordingly, applicants are asked not to disclose this salary history information to PVH