Job Description

POSITION SUMMARY: The Planner is responsible for developing, executing and communicating strategic merchandise financial plans for the Calvin Klein Ecommerce business, and driving business to meet the divisions financial, merchandising and marketing objectives.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES/ACCOUNTABILITIES OF THE JOB:

Accountabilities:

* Develop, execute, and communicate strategic merchandise financial plans that support the companys financial, product, and marketing objectives.
* Strategically drive the business in order to maximize sales and margin, and optimize inventory.
* Contribute to the development of Brand initiatives, and ensure that all planning activities support annual goals.

Key Responsibilities:

Create strategic financial plans that support the companys objectives and brand goals.

* At a Program and/or Department level, develop sales, gross margin, and inventory plans that support the companys profit objectives. Collaborate with buying/merchandising to ensure that financial objectives align with product opportunities.
* Guide the buying/merchandising team, utilizing historical data and current trends, to capitalize on new opportunities, and identify risks. Communicate opportunities and risks to key business partners including buying, merchandising, finance, marketing, visual, and brand leaders.
* Build and maintain a strategic promotional calendar, in partnership with buying and marketing, including provide guidance on key/peak weeks

Manage Open to Buy on fast growing, ever changing ecommerce site

Weekly Business Management:

* Provide updated weekly/monthly forecasts to buying/merchandising team detailing category opportunities and risks, recommending markdowns, and reflowing inventory as needed. Ensure that all decisions are based on historical data and/or current trends.
* Present action points to cross functional teams and senior management and gain consensus on business.
* Manage seasonal liabilities, inventory by source, and recommend reflow of new deliveries as needed. Communicate inventory flow to merchandising/buying, marketing & site optimization teams to align on downstream workflow.

Owner of the Open to Buy Process and Meetings:

* Collaborate with marketing, buying & merchandising, and other critical partners to align on trend, marketing focus, product focus, and gross margin prior to Open to Buy. Pre-meet with ecommerce leadership to gain consensus.
* Lead and direct the monthly forecast meeting providing guidance to internal and external business leaders and finance. Recommend strategic actions to maximize sales and margin, optimize inventory, and mitigate risk.
* Lead the receipt reconciliation process with merchant team. Ensure that on order and committed receipts are delivering in time to support forecasts. Identify risks and drive action plans to manage. Recommend chasing or reflowing receipts as appropriate.
* Align with Retail & Wholesale partners on shared inventory across corporation.
* Develop analytics to support business approach including source, delivery, and season forecasts.

Pre- Season Planning Process:

* Review historical performance at the category and key item level. Present analysis by source, delivery, and category to merchants to understand prior performance and develop future goals.
* Pre-season create department, category and item plans to support the development of the line.
* Provide receipt plans, margin and IMU goals, and flow strategies to buying team to drive assortment execution. Align with marketing team to align inventory to marketing plan.

QUALIFICATIONS & EXPERIENCE:

Experience:

* Minimum 2-3 years merchandise planning experience; 5 or more years of total work experience
* Must have some ecommerce planning experience
* Demonstrated experience
* Presenting and recommending strategies and building a business case
* Strategic forecasting for a multidimensional business
* Assuming additional areas of accountability successfully
* Influencing and negotiating at a variety of levels

Education: 4-year degree; advanced degree a plus

Skills:

* Well-developed written and verbal communication skills including presenting complex material in an organized and compelling manner.
* High level of excel experience, specifically with pivot tables, templates, and large data files.
* Well-versed in planning and allocation systems, as well as advanced Microsoft windows applications.
* Analytical/Math Skills
* Project Management
* Strategic Forecasting & Financial Planning

Internal Partners: Planning, Buying, Merchant, Marketing & Site Ops teams.

External: Not limited, but focused to Finance, Warehouse, Retail Stores & Operations teams

SUPERVISORY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Direct: N/A

Indirect: N/A

BUDGETARY RESPONSIBILITIES: Help build and manage the budget for area of responsibility and ensure we are meeting our sales, GM and inventory targets.

DECISION MAKING: Must be able to make decisions quickly in an ever changing environment; partner cross functionally with cross-functional team. Identify risks and opportunities relative to sales trends on product, flow, and presentation

RESOURCEFULNESS/CREATIVITY: Must be flexible to adapt to changing trends of business and/or ad hoc projects and be detail orientated.

ENVIRONMENT: Fast paced driven environment

PVH Corp. or its subsidiary (PVH) is an equal opportunity employer and considers all applicants for employment on the basis of their individual capabilities and qualifications, consistent with applicable law and without regard to race, color, sex, gender identity or expression, age, religion, creed, national origin, citizenship status, sexual orientation, genetic information, physical or mental disability, military status or any other characteristic protected under federal, state or local law. In addition to complying with all applicable laws, PVH also has a strong corporate commitment to inclusion, diversity and to ensuring that all current and future PVH associates are compensated solely on job-related factors such as skill, ability, educational background, work quality, experience and potential. To achieve these goals, across the United States and its territories, PVH prohibits any PVH employee, agent or representative from requesting or otherwise considering any job applicants current or prior wages, salary or other compensation information in connection with the hiring process. Accordingly, applicants are asked not to disclose this salary history information to PVH