Director, Merchandise Planning - Canada / US

Levi Strauss & Co; Markham; Hybrid; CAD 100,000 - 140,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading company seeks a Director of Merchandise Planning for their branding effort in Canada, responsible for leading a cross-functional team to achieve financial and operational goals. This hybrid role requires extensive experience in merchandise planning, strong management, and analytical skills to ensure strategic alignment and execution.

Qualifications

• 10+ years in Merchandise Financial Planning, Buying, and Inventory Management.
• 8+ years of supervisory experience required.
• Strong analytical and management skills with ability to influence.

Responsibilities

• Develop and lead cross-functional planning strategies.
• Drive financial and operational results to support brand strategy.
• Manage monthly OTB process and establish weekly Store KPIs.

Skills

Analytical skills

Relationship building

Influencing skills

Storytelling

Management skills

Job description

We are looking for a Director, Merchandise Planning for our Levis brand, leading the Canada Planning organization . You will be responsible for the development and leadership of a cross functional planning team (across DTC and Wholesale), and drive financial and operational results that support brand / category strategy and vision. This role is part of a cross-functional Canada leadership team including Merchandising, Sales, Finance, Brand Environment and Marketing.This role is also part of a cross-functional USCA MPIM leadership team, partnering with CIM, US Wholesale, and US DTC. You will report to the USCA Vice President of Merchandise Planning and Inventory Management.

About the Job

• Partner with the Canada cross-functional team to build tops down seasonal strategies across Wholesale and Retail landscape
• Partner with Canada Finance team to build Annual Financial and Operational Plans; work closely with US Teammates to build total Cluster (USCA) Financial and Operational Plans
• Work closely with CIM to inform and influence key Supply and Inventory decisions
• Build actionable strategies around risks and opportunities identified in the business
• Effectively communicate strategies and financial, operational plans and risk and opportunities to leadership
• Lead teams across Wholesale and Retail to create tops down seasonal financial plans that support channel and category strategies
• Provide direction and lead teams to build bottom up sales and inventory style plans that deliver line productivity and support sales and inventory financial targets
• Empower team to present and gain alignment from Canada leadership during Investment Review process; Present and gain alignment from USCA leadership during Investment Review process
• Responsible for Monthly Canada OTB process, including Tops down forecast and reconciling teams’ Bottoms up forecast
• Responsible for establishing and forecasting weekly Store KPIs including Traffic, Conversion, UPT, etc.
• Drive in season business across Wholesale and DTC by pulling strategic financial and operational levers; within DTC, modeling promotional opportunities, managing markdowns, and partnering with cross-functional team on marketing / messaging
• Within DTC, lead and empower Allocation team to ensure seasonal plans are supported with appropriate inventory at size level, effectively managing in stock rates
• Support Store Openings and remodels
• Support and lead planning specific Retailer conversations and alignment meetings / deliverables
• Partner with Sales and Merchandising team to map out workload that supports the GTM (go to market calendar) and key milestone meetings

About You

• 10+ years of experience in areas including but not limited to the following – Merchandise Financial Planning, Buying, Demand Forecasting, Inventory management, Store Allocation, Production Planning, Sales & Operations Planning and Planning Systems & Tools
• Strong-management skills, with 8+ years of supervisory experience
• Strong analytical skills to interpret meaningful themes from quantitative data
• Ability to build constructive and effective relationships with a broad, diverse group of business partners, mainly the cross-functional team
• Ability to influence cross functional partners
• Strong Storytelling skills, with the ability to clearly articulate insights and actions
• Ability to balance process needs and timelines and to move fast

This is a hybrid position co-located in our San Francisco, CA and Toronto, Canada headquarters. You will be expected in office 3 days per week typically Tuesday-Thursday, between both offices.

Note, time in each office (US & CA) can vary depending on business needs.

EOE M / F / Disability / Vets

LOCATION

San Francisco, CA, USA

FULL TIME / PART TIME

Full time

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