Your Role:The Planner is responsible for driving sales and inventory planning for an assigned region within the Victoria's Secret Travel Retail business. This role serves as a key business partner to Regional Area Managers and cross-functional teams, translating sales trends, market insights, and regional nuances into actionable plans that maximize sales and inventory productivity.
The Planner will own regional sales and Open-to-Buy forecasts across all merchandise categories, identify risks and opportunities, and influence inventory and business decisions in partnership with MP&A, Merchandising, Operations, and in-market teams. This role requires a strong combination of analytical expertise, commercial curiosity, and relationship-building skills to support continued growth of the Travel Retail business.
Your Impact:Sales and Inventory Planning
- Own regional Sales and Open-to-Buy forecasts, ensuring alignment to financial objectives and business priorities.
- Develop category sales and inventory plans using selling trends, market insights, regional preferences, and seasonality.
- Forecast retail and shipped sales across Partners and Brands, reconciling top-down targets with regional bottom-up plans.
- Identify sales and inventory risks and opportunities and recommend actions to maximize sales and inventory productivity.
- Partner with MP&A and Operations to support timely and productive inventory allocation and deployment.
Business & Partner Strategy
- Serve as a trusted business partner to Regional Area Managers and in-market teams, building a strong understanding of local markets, customers, and business needs.
- Partner cross-functionally with Merchandising, MP&A, Operations, and regional teams to connect financial plans with product and commercial strategies.
- Translate business performance and market insights into clear recommendations that influence decisions and drive regional growth.
- Bring a proactive, commercial perspective to partner discussions, identifying opportunities to improve performance and ways of working.
Business Analysis and Insights
- Analyze regional selling, product performance, inventory ownership, and shipment trends to identify key business insights, risks, and opportunities.
- Develop clear and concise reporting and recommendations that enable cross-functional teams and leadership to make informed business decisions.
- Communicate business performance and key callouts effectively, translating complex data into a clear story and recommended actions.
- Identify opportunities to simplify and enhance planning processes, reporting, and ways of working across the Travel Retail organization.
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Your Experience:- 4-6 years of experience in Planning or Allocation (preferably in a wholesale environment)
- Strong analytical and retail math skills with the ability to translate complex data into clear business insights and recommendations
- Strong commercial acumen and curiosity with a passion for understanding customers, markets, products, and business drivers.
- Ability to identify business risks and opportunities and recommend actionable solutions.
- Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to influence cross-functional partners.
- Demonstrated ability to build strong relationships and operate effectively in a matrixed, cross-functional environment.
- Strong organizational, prioritization, and problem-solving skills with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Proactive and solutions-oriented mindset with a passion for continuous improvement.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint.
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Operations, or a related field, or equivalent relevant experience
