ABOUT YOUR ROLE:

This position oversees business planning activities for the VANS APAC region including B&M, E-Com and Wholesale, ensuring strong collaboration and alignment between pre-season plans and in-season actions.

YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES WILL INCLUDE:

Business Planning Management:
    Business acumen on strategizing business planning development direction on DTC/WS channel growth through LRP/Yearly plan cycle 
    Running rolling forecast with the assumption of sales split, markdown, and sell-through assumption to create seasonal open to buy plan in multi time frame; major focus on DTC channel (B&M/Ecom)
    Analyzing Store plan and provide feedback to marketplace team during the monthly/seasonal/yearly planning process.
    Identifying weekly MTG/YTG forecast/risk & opportunity with marketplace team
    Reviewing the sales trends and forecast the ending inventory, suggest any risk and opportunities, and drive the action to solve the risk.
    Understanding the key connectivity and interactions required for all business process steps.
    Develop inventory rolling forecast by channel by product type and raise risk and opportunities from inventory perspective.

Reporting and Analysis Capabilities build up:
    aligning on key reports, cadence, audience, and R&R
    Establish BIG DATA analytical capability, provide ad hoc reporting and analysis 

Build Team:
    Develop the team’s capabilities, analytical skills and business knowledge through coaching and on the job monitoring/training.
    Ensure the team is communicating with other business functions in an efficient and effective way
    Ensure that Planning, Buying and Analysts/Allocators are working as one team and collaborating as needed.
    Ensure the team is actively participating in regional or global system/tool/BI implementations.

WHAT WE WILL BE LOOKING FOR IN YOU:

Retail industry background, with commercial planning experience
➢ Proven ability to manage and develop a team
➢ The ability to communicate effectively through written and oral communication
➢ Ability to build consensus and relationships both cross-functionally and cross-culturally
➢ Ability to work independently and be a self-starter
➢ Experience facilitating conversations that focus on actions and solutions