Analyst, Global Inventory Planning

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. 

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive.

Primary Purpose: to support global inventory management with a focus on procurement

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

• Support seasonal purchasing for all business channels
• Utilize internal procurement database to roll up BU buys into a global view for supply & demand meetings
• Manage changes to seasonal buys
• Ensure BU’s are supporting global must buys
• Submit final seasonal buys to supply chain
• Act as the liaison between commercial teams and production teams
• Partner with BU’s to identify priority purchase orders and submit to PO management
• Manage post market sample orders and post market sample calendar
• Assist BU’s with sales order accuracy in JOOR
• Publish final seasonal margin & maintain fiscal DTC IMU tracker
• Coordinate seasonal supply and demand meetings
• Support seasonal commercial calendar management
• Provide seasonal sales orders to operations and account services to upload into SAP
• Partner with BU’s and PO management on rerouting inventory between segments and/or warehouses
• Coordinate bi-monthly chase purchasing with the commercial teams
• Monitor all purchases against open to buy for each BU
• Manage seasonal investment recaps
• Manage global pricing validation seasonally to ensure accuracy for ticketing
• Support monthly receipt & obsolescence forecast for finance
• Partner with IT resources on new system implementations and integrations
• Validate seasonal line plan is set up accurately in systems and partner with global merchandising and IT teams as needed
• Validate purchases orders are keyed accurately in systems and partner with PO management as needed
• Assist in additional support for the global planning team
• Provide licensing forecasts to finance
• Assist with preparing the demand inventory review deck monthly
• Assist with preparing seasonal mid market check in deck

An outstanding professional will have...

• Self-starter who takes initiative and displays a strong sense of urgency
• Experience in a planning or inventory management roll for a multi channel business
• Willingness to learn and engage across multiple brand partners
• Strong attention to detail with the ability to multi-task
• Ability to effectively interact and collaborate with team members and cross functional partners
• Strong analytical and communication skills
• Strong computer skills, advanced Microsoft excel 
• Excellent time management and prioritization skills
• Ability to problem solve 

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.

Kate Spade 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 the 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.

Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA)

Tapestry, Inc. will provide applicants and employees with reasonable accommodation for disabilities or religious beliefs. If you require reasonable accommodation to complete the application process, please contact Tapestry People Services at 1-855-566-9264 or employeerelations@tapestry.com

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Work Setup:

BASE PAY RANGE $64,350.00 TO $75,000.00 Annually                                                                     

Here are some of the benefits that we offer: Medical insurance, Dental insurance, Vision insurance, 401 (K), Paid Paternity and Maternity leave, Commuter Benefits, Disability insurance and Tuition assistance. Please click here for a complete list of U.S Corporate Compensation & Benefits.