Sr. Manager, Global Merchandise Planning, Outlet Lifestyle

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The role of the Sr. Manager Global Merchandise Planning for Outlet Lifestyle is to lead a team responsible for developing and executing a financial assortment architecture in collaboration with global merchandising teams that achieves company sales, margin & AUR and growth strategy objectives for all business units. This will include pre-season product line planning and in-season global trend analyses that inform the global assortment complexion. This role reports to the Sr. Director, Global Merchandise Planning, Outlet.

Hybrid role, based in 10 Hudson Yards, NY in office Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Merchandise Planning to...

•           Lead team of 2 product experts overseeing Women’s & Men’s Footwear, Ready to Wear, Soft Accessories, Watches, Sunwear & Fragrance

•           Define and rank bestsellers in collaboration with merchandising partners that bridge back to seasonal category sales, margin and aur targets

•           Champion key product strategies and investments across markets, leveraging consumer focused analysis & strong business partnerships to influence business unit investment

•           Create optimal sku count targets that fuel productivity benchmarks by category, silhouette and product lifecycle by season

•           Guide the team in building short & long range product targets based on current trends and overall strategy to achieve topline financial goals

•           Provide volume assumptions for silhouettes and key launches to support sourcing & capacity planning

•           Recommend actionable strategic plans in reaction to sales trend that inform end of life and inventory re-routing and sharing across markets, or global chase opportunities based on early reads to identify opportunities and mitigate risks

•           Support in shared team deliverables such as recapping, team projects

The accomplished individual will possess...

•           Relied upon for thought leadership, strategic innovation and guiding the junior team

•           Attract, retain, and engage a high performance team by fostering a collaborative learning environment, celebrating accomplishments, and engaging in open 360 communication

•           Develop talent with managerial courage, providing direct and actionable positive and correct feedback to others; shares wins and successes with the whole team

•           Demonstrates strong initiative; and agility to flex across shifting priorities and multiple projects

•           Effectively influences throughout all levels of the organization; lead by example amongst peers and key partners

•           Foster effective teamwork and collaboration with key business partners (i.e. Global Merchandising, Product Development, Supply Ops, and Business Unit buying teams)

An outstanding professional will have...

•           6+ years of experience in planning, buying, strategy, or business analytics in the retail industry or related field

•           2+ years of people management experience preferred

•           Excellent problem solving and analytical skills

•           Superior written and verbal communication skills to effectively communicate with senior management

•           Must demonstrate strong initiative; and agility to flex across shifting priorities and multiple projects

•           Strong degree of accountability, and attention to detail

•           Excellent Microsoft Excel / technical skills; experience in Microsoft PowerPoint

•           Experience with MicroStrategy or other BI reporting tools is a plus

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
• Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

Our Competencies for All People Managers

• Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
• Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.

Coach is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law. #LI-HYBRID #LI-AD1

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Work Setup: Hybrid 

BASE PAY RANGE $115,000.00 TO $125,000.00
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