Global Consumer Planning Lead

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The Converse Global Consumer Planning team unleashes the power of an engaged planning community; utilizing information and data to forecast, predict, and obsess our consumer demand. These insights drive integrated target setting, enabling strategic decision making to help to ensure our consumer has access to the products they want, when they want them, and where they want to get them.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will report to the Director of Global Consumer Planning. This role is heavily collaborative, working with many cross-functional teams such as Regional Planners, Analytics, Global Product/Consumer Merchandising, Global Finance, and Inventory/Supply planning.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Consumer Planning Lead to join the Converse Global Consumer Planning team.This data minded individual will drive efforts to forecast and predict our consumer demand, partner with regional planning teams to create product, marketplace, and inventory plans, deliver data solutions that drive clarity to our results and partner with the analytics to drive enterprise data strategies that service our business needs.

** We are hiring for multiple roles

This individual plays a strategic role acting as a liaison between Global Consumer Merchandising, Regional Planning and Global Finance to drive alignment and generate a Demand Plan driven by Integrated Business Planning processes. The role requires someone who can be agile, roll-up their sleeves, and is excited by the challenge of building something from the ground up. You have a passion for data and can identify trends and synthesize demand signals to develop accurate demand plans. You ask questions, are continually learning, and are finding opportunities to share knowledge with others.

You Bring

• Bachelor's degree or combination of relevant education, experience, and training

• 6+ years in merchandise planning, demand planning or business planning experience

• Strong influencing skills and ability to story-tell data, across a diverse range of audiences

• High Proficiency in data visualization, pulling a thread across strategy, insights and intuition

• Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills

• Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once

• Self-starter with the skills to manage through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment

• Comfort in highly collaborative, cross-functional working environments

• An understanding of key business tradeoffs with experience in the Retail or Wholesale industries a plus

WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON

You will work alongside business partners to unlock the power of quantitative and qualitative data to drive Converse forward towards an integrated planning process. To do this, you will:

• Support the development and implementation of the Merchandise Financial Plan

• Provide information, analysis, and recommendations to drive Line Planning decisions during all phases of seasonal product creation, enabling assortment planning

• Leverage marketplace and assortment insight to influence early stages of the seasonal product creation process to maximize future season opportunities

• Build franchise and family level forecasts using seasonal line plans, historical information and insights gained from partners

• Consolidate demand by geo and reconcile gaps between consumer demand, financial targets and assortment plans.

• Bring together strategies across Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Operations and Finance to ensure the connectivity

• Partner with the analytics team on creation of tools and common metrics to be leveraged by planning teams, as the foundation for our MFP process and results measurement practices

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