Regional Planning Manager – Retail

Job description

​About the Role:

• Establish standardized planning processes, formats and tools to facilitate sound business planning and decision making with the management team;

• Work closely with merchandising and retail team to create seasonal open-to-buy plan per market, according to sales plan, financial plan, and buying strategy;

• Develop bottom-up sales and inventory plans to validate and tie back to target sales budgets by region and total APAC;

• Collaborate with Retail Operation, Merchandising and Finance team with demonstrated ability to operate within a matrix reporting structure;

• Interpret business trends, discuss with business partners, call out risks / opportunities, and proactively influence business partners to take quick and accurate action;

• Establish, perform and enhance standard reporting package as well as post season analysis;

• Play a lead role in managing inventory (including season launch, markdown and margin) and influence various business partners on inventory management.

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About the Candidate:

• Minimum 6 years of experience in a retail planning role;

• Strong product knowledge in premium and luxury segment of the retail industry;

• Able to demonstrate high level of numeracy;

• Proven success in driving business growth whilst achieving high sell-through results, high stock-turn, high ROI and other retail KPIs;

• Excellent analytical and problem-solving skills as well as all-round competency with the technical requirements of retail brand management and merchandise planning;

• A strong knowledge of computer skills including MS Office, especially with Excel and Powerpoint, and merchandise planning systems;

• Good communication and presentation skills on financial information and business strategies.

• Fluent verbal and written communication skills in both English and Chinese (Cantonese & Mandarin).

If you are ready for above, pls send your CV to calvin.wan@charterhouse.com.hk