Responsibilities
- Generation of the demand plan and sales forecast between a consistent 12 month horizon for the Wholesale and Franchise channels and US market
- Coordinate with the sales teams for monthly forecast submission
- Monthly/Seasonal forecast review and hindsight for Franchise and Wholesale
- Collaborate with Sales team for Seasonal Phasing Analysis Pre and Post Handover
- Support the business with Seasonal Customer Priorities analysis and implementation
- Generate Pre- Seasonal Plan (TXT) for Third Parties and US Retail
- Third Parties In- season Plan (TXT)
- Measure In -season Order adjustments vs Market orders (Root Cause Analysis)
- Support the Budgeting process
- Monthly coordination with international Retail teams on promotion timings, distribution tactics, sales periods, regional sales trends, planned intake and stock covers
- Ensure regular inputs from the Regional merchandisers to ensure that enough context is received from the Regional retail teams to build the demand plan
- Develop new reports and analysis as required by the business
- Prepare, issue and maintain Reporting Suite to the business on a Weekly/Monthly/ Seasonal basis
- Maintain planning data/ fields within various systems: TXT, Business Objects (Analysis Tool) and off-line models
Skills and Experience Required
- Educated to degree level or equivalent
- High level of numeracy and advanced Excel skills
- Excellent inter-personal skills and ability to communicate with a wide range of departments
- Ability to achieve high levels of accuracy with detailed analysis, whilst working within a deadline driven environment
- Ability to translate analytical briefs into commercial insights
- The ability to assume responsibility for tasks and workload, and work using own initiative
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