Planner

Overview (Text Only): The Retail Planner will play an important role in ensuring a successful integration of the merchant/product groups within Foot Locker Asia Pacific. The Retail Planner will also establish and deliver product lifecycle strategies to efficiently manage all inventories. Responsibilities:
**Vision & Delivery**
- Deliver efficiencies across the Asia Pacific planning team, aligning on systems, processes, and planning tasks.
- Make decisions to guide the team in achieving the Division’s annual sales, (gross margin) profit and stock turn targets.
- Execute all financial & product reporting required (daily, weekly, monthly, quarterly) and aim for constant improvements for Foot Locker Asia Pacific
- Partner with the Buying, Marketing and Allocation departments to deliver on buying targets for key categories/stories and maximize the Omni sales potential
- Partner with the respective buying & allocation team members to make the right purchasing decisions to exceed the company goals
- Work with the Director Planning to constantly review and refine processes/systems to enhance further efficiencies
- Actively participate all internal communication touch points, including but not exclusive to:

- Weekly Go To Market Omni meeting
- Monthly OTR reviews
- All Post Season Review sessions
- All Buy Sign Off meetings
- CX Summits & Kick Off Meeting.
- Play a lead role in managing the inventory lifecycle by working alongside Pricing and Space Planning teams.
- Work closely with all vendor partners to effectively manage inventory from order flow, intake, sell through reporting and analysis, and collaborating on necessary clearance actions (partnered markdown credits, RTVs)

**Strategic Initiatives**
- Leverage the strength and partnership with the Local/Global Planning teams to ensure synergistic strategies and sharing best practices.

Qualifications:

- Bachelor’s degree in business /marketing or equivalent.
- Minimum of 4 years’ experience in retail Planning or Allocation
- Strong leadership skills
- Understands retail industry and differences in the market/country
- Strong analytical and conceptual skills: ability to draw conclusions from numerical data (sales, digital traffic) and derive strategies aiming at increasing overall profitability
- Strong computer skills and experience with database management, content management is highly desirable
- Superior communication skills and ability to influence; natural ability to engage others into buying into a vision or a solution, while keeping an open mind to others’ opinions
- Proactive communication, energy, and inspires trust
- Strong level of autonomy and self-accountability; acquired ability to formulate solutions prior to escalating issues and keep sensitive to all risks and impacts of solutions.
- Able to work as part of a team and coordinate activities with other departments in an engaging way
- Ability to work under pressure, tight deadlines and changing priorities
- Excellent project management skills with hands-on attitude: ability to drive and manage projects from concept to roll-out execution

**Benefits**:

- A flexible hybrid working environment - work from home 2 days per week
- On-site parking
- Foot Locker team discount card Purchase your fav kicks - Nike, Adidas, ASICS and many more
- Access for you and your immediately family to our Employee Assistance Program
- Dynamic and supportive teamRegular social activities - monthly BBQ's, morning teas, Community Days

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