Manager, Outlet 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.

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Job Title: Planning Manager, Outlet

Primary Purpose: having keen analytical insight to manage sales, margin and inventory forecasting while mitigating risk to drive sales growth for full price stores and ecommerce channels

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in planning to…

• Manage monthly sales, margin and inventory re-forecasting by category, identifying risk and opportunities to achieve sales goals by category and channel. 
• Analyze historical business trends on an on-going basis to understand business drivers, identify opportunities and risks, while partnering with key stakeholders to action appropriately. 
• Manage weekly promotional event plans, partnering with buying to identify appropriate product discounts to achieve sales and margin goals. 
• Review and approve seasonal markdowns, ensuring strategies are aligned to achieve sales and margin targets. 
• Own seasonal purchase budget process, working cross functionally with buying and global planning to develop category and channel sales, margin and inventory plans aligning with business strategies. 
• Provide quantitative and qualitative insights during business reviews, seasonal hindsight and seasonal investment reviews. 
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams, such as global planning, store operations, outlet and wholesale, to optimize inventory management.
• Manage weekly product reporting package for cross functional team. 
• Run ad-hoc analysis when needed to provide clear conclusions and actionable next steps. 
• Continuously evaluate and improve planning processes, systems and reporting to enhance efficiency, accuracy and effectiveness.  

The accomplished individual will possess…

• 5+ years of prior planning experience, especially in a vertical retail organization.
• Strong communication skills
• Able to multi-task effectively thru excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative
• Advanced proficiency with Excel (pivot tables, vlookup, sumif)

An outstanding professional will have…

• Experience using a planning system, with an aptitude to quickly learn system functionality. 
• Ability to manage working in fast-paced environment. 

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. #LI_AD1 #LI-HYBRID

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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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BASE PAY RANGE $96,800.00 TO $121,000.00 Annually                                                                     

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