BALENCIAGA Senior Planner

Your opportunity:

This role leverages planning and analysis expertise to maximize sales, inventory management, and profitability. Responsible for control of merchandise management in all channels for HK, Macau and Taiwan according to sales target figures, demand planning and Open-To-Buy support data analysis. Provide analytical support to the buyers to ensure a balanced and profitable assortment.

How you will contribute:

 Demand Planning / Distribution and supply chain related management:

-            Closely work with HQ SC team on all the projects including ShAre allocation, Ochestra rolling forecast.

-            Weekly and timely doing the shipment / Delivery track especially for newness.

-            Closely monitoring stock level of all the “cross dock” stores and define the proper action plan.

-            Outlet stock management and family sales planning.

Inventory control:

-            Serve as the inventory control expert on all categories and monitor the lifecycle of merchandise and conduct the stock assessment per the sales trend and the sales forecast in regular basis.

-            Responsible for the routine allocation to stores of all the carryover / permanent / share styles.

-            Closely monitor the store stock level with its capacity and propose timely stock movement action plan per the business needs.

Reporting and analysis:

-            Review weekly business at detail levels of quantities and value level to identify risks and opportunities.

-            Utilize information systems, such as JDA/RDM to provide essential analysis in order to identify and maximize sales and profit opportunities.

-            Produce standard weekly/monthly merchandise management reports and fulfill ad hoc information requests as needed.

Sales forecast & OTB planning

-            Work together with Merchandising Manager to prepare pre-season Open-To-Buy/Sales Plans to be used in the development of merchandise strategies for the season and to support buying needs.

-            Work with finance and retail team on the rolling forecast and budget in each phase of planning time line.  

Perform other duties assigned

Who you are?

·         Degree in Economics, Finance/Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics or Fashion

·         Minimum 3 years planning experience preferred; Experience of accounting function or inventory control in retail/fashion industry is an advantage.

·         Demonstrated working knowledge of retail inventory and financial measures/KPI (Sell-through, weeks of supply/coverage, inventory turn, mark downs, mark ups, OTB etc.)

·         Detail-oriented, high accuracy, good numeric sense and able to multi-tasks.

·         Must possess excellent collaboration, communication and analytical skills.

·         Good PC skills, particularly excellent excel skills

·         Fluent in spoken and written English and Mandarin