Planner

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Stuart Weitzman shoes are designed for high fashion and high function. Known for over 35 years for its artisanal Spanish craftsmanship and precisely-engineered fit, the luxury footwear brand inspires women around the world to shine with confidence with every step. Stuart Weitzman is part of the Tapestry portfolio – a global house of brands committed to stretching what’s possible.

Job Title: Planner, North America Omni Planning

Primary Purpose: The North America Omni Planner will support Stuart Weitzman brand leaders in driving North America planning strategy and Long Range Planning (LRP) execution with guidance to business channels. The NA Planner will partner closely with Buying, Allocation and Merchandising teams to provide business insights and set sales/margin targets. The Planner will own the creation, finalization, and in-season management of business unit (BU) level open-to-buy (OTB) plan as well as seasonal OTB recommendation of carryover vs. newness strategy.

• Individual Accountabilities
  • Develop Annual Operating plans (AOP) by channel (stores/e-commerce) by week for all KPIs
  • Roll assigned OTB $ through department/channel. Develop sales, gross margin percentage, receipt, inventory, AUR, AUC and WOH targets for FP and clearance.
  • Establish channel purchase plans for each buy season
  • Reconcile buy plans to purchase plans ensuring investments meet BU financial and inventory targets
  • Set depth guidelines (e.g., ranges) for BU assortment buys; category and class targets, including size and width curves
  • Monthly reforecast of dept sales/GM%/Inv by week based on trend.  Identify risks/opportunities.
  • Provides channel plan information and acts as point person to key partners
  • Builds promotional strategies, calendar, and models; communicates and aligns key region/channel partners.
  • Point person to key partners for region/channel financial and operational plan information
  • Creation of regional/channel reports and analysis on performance; tracks performance against plan, AOP, LY
  • Builds daily plans for all channels across all KPIs
  • Develop and recommend seasonal carryover vs. newness financial strategy 
  • Responsible to continuously evaluate inventory complexion and recommend strategy to move through excess inventory
  • Forecasting product receipts and communicating to Allocation

• Shared Accountabilities
  • With Buying – Align seasonal sales/GM/receipt plans with buying strategies. Discuss weekly selling to capitalize on trends. Monthly forecast alignment on seasonal plans, promotions and trend. provides guidance and analysis for clusters, cluster assortments and APS’s. Tracks tests, events, holidays.
  • With Buying – validate seasonal carryover vs. newness strategy.
  • With Allocation – pass top line projections as basis for by store allocation
  • With Allocation – manage size and width curves
  • With Global Inventory – Align on receipt budgets by season, core projections and excess inventory.
  • With Finance & Channel Leads – provide monthly forecasts, KPIs, align promotional cadence & strategy by channel/location, IMU, gross margin impacts
  • With Buying & Allocation - Align and communicate any changes necessary to safety stock levels
• Capabilities
  • Financial acumen, analytical rigor, knows the business
  • Proven ability to understand the key business drivers and develop recommendations to improve/optimize the business
  • Strong collaboration, communication and facilitation skills to drive credibility with all partners
  • Strong team player

The accomplished individual will possess:

• Bachelor’s degree in Finance/Accounting or quantitative area preferred
• 1-2+ years of experience in Financial Planning, Analysis or related field preferred
• Financial modelling and Microsoft Excel skills
• P&L Budgeting/Forecasting/Planning experience
• Outstanding organizational skills, with the ability to communicate across multiple levels of the business
• Ability to develop strong financial partnerships across the business and be a team player
• Strong attention to detail

An outstanding professional will have:

• Ability to identify business needs and process improvements based on trends, propose solutions and manage cross-functional projects to completion
• Outstanding analytical skills and proven track record of utilizing insights from data collection to create strategic initiatives and action plans
• Ability to clearly communicate ideas, build and maintain effective working relationships with team members and peers across the organization

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.

Stuart Weitzman is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and pride itself 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. Visit Stuart Weitzman at www.stuartweitzman.com.

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.

Stuart Weitzman 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-AD1 #LI-HYBRID

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Visit Stuart Weitzman at www.stuartweitzman.com.

Work Setup

BASE PAY RANGE $60,000.00 TO $70,000.00
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