Global Merchandise Planner Jobs

Description & Requirements
Planning | Global Merchandise Planner
Who we are
lululemon is a yoga-inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga informs our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.
About This Team
The Planning team is responsible for ensuring financial success of the company. They work closely with Merchandising to understand new product trends (Merchandising) and regional/climate selling, size trends, and ensures product is sent to the right Distribution Centre. The team monitors the business on a daily, weekly, monthly and quarterly basis, understanding changes in trend and reacting to the business to maximize sales and mitigate risk. The priority is to understand and protect the guest experience, followed by delivering profitable sales growth.
A Day In The Life
The Global Merchandise Planner partners with Global Merchants to support the development of financial architecture and global category plans as inputs to Global Line Architecture (Sales, IMU, CC Targets). This person is responsible for completing the global quantification of the assortment that support departmental/divisional merchandise strategies they own. The Global Merchandise Planner partners with Global Merchandising to incorporate relevant regional input to build and quantify shell plans and preliminary assortments, supporting both Global and Regional seasonal strategies. They must collaborate effectively with Global and Regional Planning, Sourcing, Production and the Global Brand Team to bring the product line to life. The Global Merchandise Planner must also be flexible as the function evolves with new processes, tools and systems.

• Prepare and update rolling 24-month demand plans on a monthly basis and reconcile to each buy milestone
• Complete pre-season quantification of the assortment plan for line planning and vendor allocation purposes
• Provide analysis to support price architecture strategies
• Responsible to complete the financial architecture and global category plans by class, activity, franchise
• Advise in Seasonal Product Roadmap
• Advise in Seasonal Assortment Strategy
• Put together content for showback to CPO (include strategy, directional investment level)
• Ad hoc analysis
• Partner with Global Merchandising to support on the Global Line Architecture

Qualifications

• Expert knowledge of Excel is required
• 5 - 8 Years of Planning experience or progressive financial analysis and reporting experience
• Effective communication skills (written & verbal ) & e xtremely organized, thorough and able to prioritize
• Ability and willingness to accept and provide feedback.
• Detail orientated & analytical
• Excellent team player as well as the ability to work independently.
• Self directed problem solver, proactive and resourceful
• Capable of effective multiple demand management from a variety of sources and adapts well to change.
• College certificate or University degree is required, preferably in Commerce or Business Administration
• Results oriented – strong sense of motivation

Must Haves

• Possesses an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovates to achieve great results.
• Acknowledges the presence of choice in every moment and takes personal responsibility for their life.
• Leads with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.
• Communicates with honesty and kindness, and creates the space for others to do the same.
• Fosters connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.