Senior Manager, Omni Channel Planning (Vans APAC)

ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

This position oversees business planning activities for the VANS APAC region including B&M, E-Com and Wholesale, ensuring strong collaboration and alignment between pre-season plans and in-season actions.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

Business Planning Management:  Business acumen on strategizing business planning development direction on DTC/WS channel growth through LRP/Yearly plan cycle  Running rolling forecast with the assumption of sales split, markdown, and sell-through assumption to create seasonal open to buy plan in multi time frame; major focus on DTC channel (B&M/Ecom)  Analyzing Store plan and provide feedback to marketplace team during the monthly/seasonal/yearly planning process.  Identifying weekly MTG/YTG forecast/risk & opportunity with marketplace team  Reviewing the sales trends and forecast the ending inventory, suggest any risk and opportunities, and drive the action to solve the risk.  Understanding the key connectivity and interactions required for all business process steps.  Develop inventory rolling forecast by channel by product type and raise risk and opportunities from inventory perspective.

Reporting and Analysis Capabilities build up:  aligning on key reports, cadence, audience, and R&R  Establish BIG DATA analytical capability, provide ad hoc reporting and analysis

Build Team:  Develop the team’s capabilities, analytical skills and business knowledge through coaching and on the job monitoring/training.  Ensure the team is communicating with other business functions in an efficient and effective way  Ensure that Planning, Buying and Analysts/Allocators are working as one team and collaborating as needed.  Ensure the team is actively participating in regional or global system/tool/BI implementations.

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

Retail industry background, with commercial planning experience ➢ Proven ability to manage and develop a team ➢ The ability to communicate effectively through written and oral communication ➢ Ability to build consensus and relationships both cross-functionally and cross-culturally ➢ Ability to work independently and be a self-starter ➢ Experience facilitating conversations that focus on actions and solutions

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