Senior Planner Business Wholesale

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Your Talent

YOUR TALENT (Qualifications)

• Bachelor's degree in business, Economics, Finance, or related field.
• 5+ experience in business planning, particularly within wholesale or retail sectors.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel a must.
• Proficiency in PowerPoint a plus.
• Experience with BI reporting tools, experience with standardized reporting.
• Strong analytical, organizational, and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to multitask and evaluate multiple requests with varying degrees of priority.
• Limited domestic travel to represent at key account or company meetings.

The Hiring range base pay for this position is $82,000-$116,645 + Bonus + Benefits

(Benefit Summary Corporate)

Pay may vary depending on job-related knowledge, skills, and experience

Your Mission

POSITION OVERVIEW

As a Senior Planner Business Wholesale, you will play a pivotal role in driving seasonal planning and budget management initiatives. Collaborating with Sales Management and cross-functional teams, you will develop comprehensive plans with a focus on key account strategies. Your responsibilities include managing business plans to optimize selling and profitability at the retailer level, overseeing sales tracking processes, and conducting trend forecasting. Serving as a key contact for planning communication and meetings, you will review and analyze weekly sell-through data and provide essential wholesale analysis to senior management. Your role extends to managing the wholesale forecast process, ensuring accuracy and effective communication of final forecasts. This is a Hybrid role allowing 2 remote working days.

YOUR MISSION (Responsibilities)

Seasonal Planning and Budget Management:

• Collaborate with Sales Management and cross-functional teams to develop high level seasonal, annual and long-range plans.
• Create key account financial plans across multiple categories with collaborated input from wholesales department.
• Oversee and participate in cross-functional alignment on sales tracking, targeting, trend forecasting, reporting, and seasonal analysis.
• Lead dynamic wholesale business plans that support current & long-term business ambition Through support of pre-season go-to-market milestones in collaboration with sales team, while driving planning-led initiatives both internally & with account.
• Manage franchise, key item, and replenishment forecasts and provide guidance to improve accuracy and account sell-through including retailer door analysis.
• Identify business opportunities and risks in-season against plan and provides actionable recommendations to improve results.

Communication and Reporting:

• Lead communication and reporting efficacies to continuously improve and maintain established relationships with customers; collecting 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.
• Establishes and maintains effective relationships with internal and external customers and uses it form improvements in product and services.
• Serve as a key contact for planning communication and seasonal meetings. Lead business planning meetings with external partners.
• Analyze and provide insights to facilitate internal business review to hindsight brand performance for responsible accounts.
• Provide wholesale data and analysis to senior management on an ad hoc basis.
• Analyze complex data and offering strategic solutions for in-season recommendations to drive business growth.
• Effectively present information and respond to questions from manager, stakeholders, cross functional business leaders, sales representatives, peers, clients, and customers.

Wholesale Forecast Process Management:

• Building plan and flow product assortments that can address both targeted objectives and account-specific needs while maximizing sales, margin and inventory turn.
• Collaborate with Sales Management, Merchandising, and Category Supply Planning teams to develop accurate seasonal forecasts.
• Consolidate and communicate final seasonal forecasts to relevant departments.

PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.

PUMA supports over 21,000 employees across 51 countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany.