Assortment Planer Senior Specialist

Pandora A/S; Hamburg; Hybrid; EUR 70.000 - 95.000; Vollzeit

Benefits dieser Stelle

Company pension scheme

Gym membership

Jewellery discount

Mobile Working Kits Allowance

Zusammenfassung

Pandora A/S in Hamburg is seeking a senior Assortment Planner Specialist (m/f/d) to lead strategic planning for our Northern Europe head office. You will translate market trends and store feedback into clear recommendations and drive planning tools and cycles.

You will deliver weekly trading insights, support newness cycles, and collaborate with global teams to ensure alignment with commercial priorities and stock targets.

Qualifikationen

• Five or more years in merchandise planning, assortment planning, buying, or category management.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to translate data into insights.
• Experience influencing stakeholders and delivering recommendations.
• Proven ability to work across functions and geographies.

Aufgaben

• Lead strategic planning and initiative follow-through for key programs.
• Translate market trends, store feedback, and customer demand into recommendations.
• Design and maintain reporting views and planning tools across cycles and initiatives.
• Drive weekly trading insights and monthly performance deep dives by market and product area.
• Own readiness for new collections and commercial planning, including stock and forecast considerations.

Kenntnisse

Strategic planning

Assortment planning

Merchandise planning

Data analysis

Stakeholder collaboration

Ausbildung

Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Fashion Merchandising or similar

Jobbeschreibung

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FOR OUR HEAD OFFICE NORTHERN EUROPE, BASED IN HAMBURG, WE ARE LOOKING FOR YOU!

Assortment Planner Senior Specialist (Strategic Planning Focus) (m/f/d) – Hamburg

Similar roles: Buyer, Category Manager, Merchandise Planner

WE DELIVER - Let's deliver together:

• Strategic planning and initiative follow-through
• Support the strategic assortment planning agenda by leading the planning workstream for key initiatives such as Tourism, Engraving, or other commercial focus areas.
• Translate initiative performance, market trends, store feedback, and customer demand into clear recommendations, decision support, and next steps.
• Identify whether opportunities or risks are linked to market, store, product, stock, assortment, or execution topics, and proactively connect with the right stakeholders to validate root causes and align on actions.
• Validate market needs through performance analysis, competitor checks, store visits, and close collaboration with commercial teams.
• Reporting, insights and decision-making routines
• Design, standardize, and maintain reusable reporting views and planning tools across weekly trading, cycles, strategic initiatives, and EOSS, ensuring consistent definitions, ownership, and efficient refresh routines.
• Turn reporting into decision support by simplifying complexity, highlighting what matters, and ensuring each output leads to a clear recommendation, decision, or follow-up action.
• Newness / cycle planning
• Build and maintain cluster-level assortment views for newness/NPI decisions, including ranging, expectations, rankings, quantity guidance, and market/channel relevance.
• Lead cycle post-mortems that connect launch performance, market feedback, stock availability, and execution learnings, providing clear guidance to Global on how future cycles should be bought, shaped, forecasted, and prioritised.
• Provide clear feedback on new collections and communicate cluster needs based on market trends, customer demand, and commercial priorities.
• Weekly trading and performance deep dives
• Drive weekly trading insights by identifying what is over- or under-performing, where action is needed, and which stakeholders need to be engaged to solve issues or unlock opportunities.
• Lead monthly and quarterly performance deep dives by market, channel, initiative, and product area to assess sales trends, assortment effectiveness, and strategic priorities.
• EOSS readiness and commercial planning
• Own EOSS readiness through product-range reviews, bottom-up assortment and sell-out forecasts, discontinued-item analysis, commercial scenario planning, discount strategy recommendations, and clear read-outs on whether the stock position and sales potential are sufficient to deliver the expected result.
• Monitor progress against targets and recommend actions when performance is off-track.
• Cross-functional collaboration and team support
• Partner closely with the GTM-focused Specialist to translate assortment direction, insights, and recommendations into local execution, with clear boundaries between planning and execution.
• Influence Global and internal stakeholders through evidence-based recommendations, constructive challenge, and clear communication of cluster needs and priorities.
• Guide and coach the Working Student by assigning tasks, reviewing outputs, and building capability in line with the strategic planning agenda.

WE DREAM - This is what we dream of:

• We are looking for a seasoned Merchandise Planner who can independently structure complex business questions, define the right analytical approach, and turn findings into commercially relevant recommendations and follow-through.
• You are highly number-driven, commercial, fact-based, and analytical, with the ability to work confidently with large data sets, identify what truly matters, and communicate insights in a simple, decision-ready way.
• You thrive in a fast-paced retail environment, are comfortable with ambiguity and changing priorities, and can independently prioritise the topics with the greatest commercial impact.
• You are people-smart and collaborative, able to build trusted relationships across functions and geographies, influence without direct authority, and challenge constructively when needed.
• You combine strong logical reasoning with emotional intelligence and can provide clear feedback, guidance, and coaching to support others in translating strategy into execution.
• You are structured and pragmatic, with a continuous improvement mindset and a strong focus on making reporting, tools, and routines more efficient and action-oriented.
• You bring at least five years of relevant experience in merchandise planning, assortment planning, buying, or category management within retail, fashion, lifestyle, or FMCG, ideally in an omnichannel or global vertical retail environment.
• Preferred education: Economics, Finance, Business Administration, Fashion Merchandising or similar.

We CARE

We truly care to offer you a great place to work!

• Internationally successful company with a flat hierarchy
• A highly motivated team with a Can-Do-Attitude
• A great discount on our jewellery
• Personal and professional development through regular e-learning modules, trainings and workshops
• Beautiful & modern office space in the Hamburg city center
• Gym membership at Fitness Firstat a reduced Pandora-Corporate-Rate
• Cooperation with corporate benefits & free access to a benefits portal for discounted tickets for sport, culture events andcorporate deals
• Monthly Sodexo vouchers
• Company pension scheme withanattractive employer contribution and insurance package
• Flexible working time with opportunities for mobile working & Mobile Working Kits Allowance

We love to celebrate special moments together that matter to us like your birthday, where you are given a special leave day, or with corporate events in the summertime & at Christmas.

We DARE

We are looking forward to welcoming you!