WW Merchandising Operations Manager

Imagine what you could do here! The people here at Apple dont just create products they build the kind of wonder thats revolutionized entire industries. Its the diversity of those people and their ideas that inspires the innovation that runs through everything we do from amazing technology to industry-leading environmental efforts. At Apple inclusion is a shared responsibility and we work together to foster a culture where everyone belongs and is inspired to do their best WW Apple Retail Engagement Marketing u0026 Merchandising (REMM) team defines makes and delivers programs campaigns initiatives and experiences that help Apple Retails customers and teams discover be inspired by learn about and go further with Apples products and services and does so in a manner that is true to our values. nnApples Merchandising Operations team is responsible for the global end-to-end lifecycle for third party products in the Apple Retail Store and the Apple Online Store. Working closely with Product Merchants we lead a global cross functional network of partners including Developer Relations Digital Merchandising Pricing Procurement Supply Chain Operations Regional Merchandising teams and Visual Merchandising.

This role bridges operational excellence with planning rigor ensuring optimized process performance and profitability across retail channels.

Partner with Merchants to develop consumer and category segment productivity targets (assortment architecture).nBuild and present bottom-up sales and inventory plans; reconcile against top-down financial plans to inform investment and inventory with allocation partners to ensure in-season allocation replenishment consumption and receipt manage in-season profitability to achieve or exceed seasonal performance quantitative analysis to increase assortment profitability identify and monetize new opportunities flag risks post-season analysis on financial and assortment performance to inform next a top-down perspective on seasonal investment strategies focused on monetizing key and develop a team of 3 fostering an inclusive high-performance key metrics set goals and measure progress across multiple cross-functional teams; report regularly to senior as a key liaison between 3PP Product Merchandising and multiple cross-functional identify areas of risk and opportunity for capacity management through assessment of bottoms-up in seasonal checkpoints and cross-functional milestones with regional and global teams to ensure investment goals are aligned.

7 years of experience in merchandise planning inventory management and/or retail operations with meaningful depth in inventory management and retail math skills and understanding of forecasting methodology (sell-through in-stock rates margin management).nAdvanced proficiency in Excel (complex functions large data manipulation); comfortable in Keynote Pages and ability to translate complex financial and quantitative data into clear actionable stories that influence decisions at senior cross-functional collaboration skills able to work across global regions teams and defining success criteria and building comprehensive strategic plans.

Experience standing up or expanding a planning function within an operations-focused team comfort operating in ambiguity while building new record of improving sell-through and in-stock rates through integrated inventory and demand with pricing strategy work that improved margin or contributed to profitability with product lifecycle management across multiple retail channels.