Retail Planner

**YOUR TALENT**:

- Bachelor Degree, ideally in Business
- Minimum 5 years of Planning and Allocation experience
- Ideally 2-3 years in a similar position
- Apparel or footwear industry experience, advantage.
- English written and spoken at Business level.
- A problem solver
- Results-oriented
- High level of numerical and analytical skills
- Ability to read/understand P&L accounts

**YOUR MISSION**:
We have a fantastic opportunity for a Retail Planner to join the Merchandise team

The Retail Planner role is accountable for managing the Planning process to deliver maximum sales, margin and profit to the PUMA Retail business.

Key responsibilities include:

- Sales Forecasting, OTB, Inventory levels and SKU count, making sure that these support and drive the business.
- Communicating all key KPIs to the Head of Retail and other stakeholders.
- Together with the Retail Merchandiser, responsible for delivering a buy strategy per season and building the most profitable, balanced, customer focused range for the country which reflects the PUMA Brand Strategy and supports any key strategies.
- Accountable for managing the in-season trading of the business in a way where inventory is managed efficiently and required trading decisions are made and communicated to stakeholders.

PUMA provides equal opportunities for all job applicants, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, sex, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, age, or disability. Equality for all is one of the core principles at PUMA and we do not tolerate any form of harassment or discrimination.

PUMA supports over 21,000 employees across 51 countries. The PUMA Group owns the brand PUMA, Cobra Golf and stichd, and is headquartered in Herzogenaurach, Germany.