Planning Market Planning & Ops Lead

WHAT YOU DO

You lead end‑to‑end inventory planning across seasons, optimizing stock levels, identifying risks, and driving efficient allocation, replenishment, and liquidation strategies across markets.

You support cross‑functional initiatives, analyze performance, and ensure smooth execution of inventory processes to strengthen commercial and operational outcomes.

WHO YOU ARE

You are an analytical and collaborative supply chain professional with strong skills in inventory management, planning, and cross‑functional coordination.

You bring experience in driving insights, improving processes, and supporting decision‑making to secure efficient and reliable stock management.

Your responsibilities:

- Pre-Season Inventory Planning

• Responsible for pre-season allocation setup & updating Continent and local allocation strategies & ensuring implementation in line with Global guidelines (e.g., weeks of supply, availability, freshness); follow-up parameter update process and shipment shortcuts
• Flag risks related to capacity and operational constraints

- In-Season Inventory Optimization

• Monitor stock levels vs. plan across all SMs; track development of inventory KPIs and planned stock inflows to highlight deviations
• Share key stock insights and development with sale market on current status and outlook
• Review stock data and KPIs and provide recommendations to SMs (via Product Merchandising Leads) on actions to improve stock efficiency  to product leads
• Support Product leads and  D&S in case of over-/understock situations by running analytical scenarios
• Track liquidation and stock health across SMs and Planning Markets, identifying slow movers or high-risk stock positions
• Adjust replenishment speed and parameters in systems (e.g., Acceleration, Dynamic Pick Limit, Final Push) based on Product Merchandising Leads'  feedback
• Maintain and update allocation-related data and parameters in relevant tools (esp. R3 and SMT; potentially also ASQ and TMQ)
• Provide transparency and structured reporting to Continent leadership on stock development, sell-through, and efficiency metrics

- Post-Season Optimization & Exit Management

• Monitor and report on stock clearance and liquidation performance across SMs and Planning Markets
• Support Product Merchandising Leads with quantitative analyses to identify suitable articles for clearance and final sales

​​​​​​​- Overarching project management

• Manage Continent-wide projects/ initiatives and drive implementation across Planning Markets/ Sales Markets of a Continent

​​​​​​​- Deliveries

• Ensure implementation of continental delivery strategy

Education:

• Bachelor’s or Master’s degree or similar in Supply Chain Management, Logistics, Business Administration, Economics, Data Analytics, or a related quantitative field

Skills:

• Analytical capabilities: Strong quantitative and analytical skills to run/ interpret larger-scale data reports, run scenario simulations
• Strategic stock management: Deep understanding of stock efficiency metrics (e.g., sell-through, weeks of supply) and their impact on commercial and operational performance
• Cross-functional collaboration: Skilled & interested in working with cross-functional stakeholders; agile team set-ups
• Communication: Ability to present analytical findings clearly and influence decision-making with data-driven insights
• Tool/ system proficiency: Knowledge of industry-standards/ common allocation tools

Experience:

• 3–5+ years of experience in inventory management role within retail, fashion or FMCG with a proven record of managing stock optimization in complex settings (e.g., across markets)