Become part of the Converse Team
Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR:
We are looking for a Direct Planner to establish clear end to end bottom’s up merchandise plans that are grounded in profitability, productivity and consumer centric offering. You will be partnering with Merchandising & Merchandise Financial Planning to help create the pre-season style color plans that support the goals of Converse. As well managing through to in- season optimization through a collaborative weekly trade offense.
WHAT YOU’LL WORK ON:
In this role you'll establish clear merchandise plans that tell a story for the season and helps merchandising to create a line grounded in profitability and consumer centric offering. This will include collaborating with merchandising and business units to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities.
You will:
Approach planning end-to-end across multiple channels and multiple connected seasons beginning with retail metrics grounded in marketplace health.
Present financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings. You'll proactively report on the health of the business and facilitate smart business decisions, communicate financial results, forecasts, and action plans to managers and cross-functional team members on a weekly basis.
You'll collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge. In addition, you'll participate in a team structure that facilitates and maximizes individual and team performance, supporting and fostering an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity, encourages accountability, and drives toward results.
Partner with key stakeholders across Geo to optimize business health throughout the entirety of the product life cycle
Recap and analyze the business against forecast weekly and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a monthly basis & quarterly basis
Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights
Report on forecast variance weekly with action plans and risks & opportunities
Support monthly and seasonal inventory planning and management activities
In partnership with marketplace teams actively manage product; close-out process and aging inventory to maximize consumer demand and marketplace objectives
WHO YOU’LL WORK WITH:
You will partner cross functionally with Merchandising, Merchandise Financial Planning, Site Merchandising, Marketing and Operations.
WHAT YOU BRING
A minimum of 2 years directly relevant work experience
Ability to Leverage analytics and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season
Demonstrated experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning
Ability to influence and design compelling communication grounded in data
Ability to think critically and understand the potential of a style in the marketplace as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective
Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes
Demonstrated problem solving skills and ability to work independently.
Current understanding of consumer and marketplace trend
* For this role we do not offer relocation
*Application Deadline: Tuesday 4 February 2024
HOW WE HIRE
1. Apply
Our teams are made up of diverse skillsets, knowledge bases, inputs, ideas and backgrounds. We want you to find your fit – review job descriptions, departments and teams to discover the role for you.
2. Meet a Recruiter or Take an Assessment
If selected for a corporate role, a recruiter will reach out to start your interview process and be your main contact throughout the process. For retail roles, you’ll complete an interactive assessment that includes a chat and quizzes and takes about 10-20 minutes to complete. No matter the role, we want to learn about you – the whole you – so don’t shy away from how you approach world-class service and what makes you unique.
3. Interview
Go into this stage confident by doing your research, understanding what we are looking for and being prepared for questions that are set up to learn more about you, and your background.
