Lead Assortment Planning Manager, Basketball Footwear GC

Shanghai - China

Monthly Salary: Not Disclosed

Posted on: 30+ days ago

Vacancies: 1 Vacancy

Job Summary

Overview of the Job: The role focuses on optimizing consumer demand and supply to drive profitable growth and inventory productivity for GC Basketball total market. Planner will build seasonal product investment plans and strategies that align with financial targets and the brand vision playing a key role in cross-functional collaboration to ensure the team adapts to retail speed.

Reporting Line: DIR Ms Planning Running/Training Basketball GC

Key Partnership:

Sports GM
Sports Merch
SSD & SBD

Job Responsibility:

Develop a strategic framework for seasonal product investment planning.
Lead GC Basketball buy strategy by reconciling topline financials brand roadmap assortment strategy and marketplace capacity with bottom-up investment.
Align plans with input and collaboration from key stakeholders including Sports GM and the Merchandising team.
Continuously monitor product performance and optimize future season inventory and investment based on the latest trends.
Analyze product performance including sell-through rates color performance and SKU productivity.

Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):

Buying Planning Assortment Planning experience with apparel / footwear
Comprehensive understanding of retail math
Experience in developing an understanding of consumers competitors and retail trends
Ability to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business
Advanced knowledge of MS office applications; proficiency in Excel
Product Knowledge

Experience Required (Soft skills):

Be Open and Curious
High profile x-functional communication
Visionary and Strategic
Strong team player and management on all aspects of the business
Learning agility
Bachelor degree or above
Fluent in Chinese & English

Required Experience:

Manager

Overview of the Job: The role focuses on optimizing consumer demand and supply to drive profitable growth and inventory productivity for GC Basketball total market. Planner will build seasonal product investment plans and strategies that align with financial targets and the brand vision playing a ke...