Sr. Merchandise Planner, Outlet, Women's SEA & CI

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Job Title: Senior Merchandise Planner, SEA & CI Outlet

Reporting into: Senior Manager, Merchandise Planning, SEA & CI Outlet  

Location: Singapore

Primary Purpose: The Senior Merchandise Planner position is responsible for all merchandising planning activities associated with Coach SEA business channel. The ideal candidate will be required to manage and develop a balanced assortment offering based on market needs and company strategic goals. This is a key role in delivering performance against sales, SKU productivity, and product sell through, maximizing pre and in season inventory and optimizing cross channel opportunities.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in merchandising to…

• Understand each of the region within Coach SEA and analyze consumer retail trends, market landscape, and competitive environment
• Collaborate with Global and Greater China/Coach Asia Merchandising Teams to understand seasonal strategies, priorities and newness styles
• Engage in seasonal line reviews with Global Teams, highlighting current selling trends and product gaps to influence future product creation.
• Communicate with Global Merchandise Planning Team on department growth strategies and key investment guidance to increase SKU productivity. Develop Financial Assortment Architecture (FAA) plans each season to address regional trends.
• Responsible for identifying any gaps in merchandising assortment during seasonal product opportunity (SPO) process.
• Create consumer-focused assortments for each region considering store profiles, VM space capacity and SKU productivity
• Analyze POS data analysis to understand sell-through to aid pre-season planning, and identify in-season opportunities
• Collaborate with Allocator for inventory optimization based on current season inventory on hand, identify if there is any gap/opportunity of sales to pull forward newness launch
• Responsible for identifying pricing/promotion opportunities for local market. Monitor competitors against Brand's position in terms of products and pricing
• Partner with Retail Management team to gather product feedback

The accomplished individual will possess...

• 3-5 years’ experience in retail, B2B, franchise or wholesale experience 
• Proven track record of buying/merchandising success for multinational brand/company
• Analytical skills and ability to translate data into action points
• Ability to perform well under pressure with multiple deadlines
• Experience in merchandising/planning systems and SAP a plus  

An outstanding professional will have...

• Clear written and verbal communication skills
• Analytical skills and ability to translate data into action points with clear communication
• Comfortable in presenting and communicating to upper management
• Self-starter and able to work independently and as a team player
• Intermediate to Advanced Excel (formulas, pivot tables, macro building a plus)
• Experience in reporting systems i.e CORA/BI/Microstrategy is a plus 

• BA/BS university degree or its equivalent in merchandising, business, finance, economics, or supply chain.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• Perseverance: Pursues everything with energy, drive, and a need to finish; seldom gives up before finishing, especially in the face of resistance or setbacks.
• 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.

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.
• Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale
  and spirit in his/her 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.
• Managerial 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.

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