(Senior) Strategic Planner (all genders)

ABOUT YOU; Hamburg; Hybrid; EUR 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

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Job summary

ABOUT YOU, a fast-growing fashion-tech company based in Hamburg, is looking for a data-driven strategist for the Strategic Planning Team. You will translate high-level goals into actionable plans and dashboards, collaborating with Pricing, Marketing, Merchandise Planning and Logistics.

Responsibilities include KPI monitoring, forecasting, budgeting alignment, and delivering clear recommendations. A university degree in business, strong Excel skills, and fluent German or English are expected in

Qualifications

• University degree in business administration or a comparable qualification.
• Initial relevant professional experience in planning, finance, controlling, or management consulting in a dynamic e‑commerce or fashion environment.
• Good understanding of common performance metrics and excellent MS Excel skills.
• Very good German or English skills.

Responsibilities

• Strategically plan key business metrics from top‑line revenue and discounts down to contribution margin across planning cycles.
• Align annual budgets with business teams such as Buying, Merchandise Planning, and Partner Management, and track target achievement throughout the year.
• Monitor current trading and understand performance drivers to create robust and high‑accuracy forecasts.
• Continuously track core business and performance metrics, analyze plan deviations, and provide clear recommendations for action.
• Partner closely with the Pricing, Campaigns, and Marketing teams to drive the commercial steering of ABOUT YOU.
• Prepare cross‑team ad hoc analyses and build dashboards to support data‑driven decision‑making across teams.
• Drive process optimization and further automate our planning processes

Skills

Strategic thinking

Ownership

Analytical mindset

Entrepreneurial drive

Hands-on mentality

German language or English skills

Education

University degree in business administration or comparable qualification

Tools

MS Excel

SQL

Looker Studio

Job description

Company Description

Company Description
ABOUT YOU is one of Europe’s fastest growing e-commerce companies. Based in Hamburg and Berlin, we operate at the intersection of fashion and technology. Our mission is to rethink online shopping and make it personal and seamless. This takes more than good ideas. It takes people who take initiative and challenge the status quo. We believe in flat hierarchies, direct communication, and pragmatic decisions. No long approval chains. Just ownership, trust, and clear responsibility. We work hard, but we also believe in enjoying the ride together - over team lunches, afterwork drinks, company events, or a quick coffee in between meetings. If this sounds like you, ABOUT YOU could be the right place to bring in your perspective.
Job Description
Our Strategic Planning Team plays a crucial role in translating high-level business goals into actionable strategies, ensuring alignment across departments and building a bridge between the finance department and the supply business teams. By breaking down ABOUT YOU’s overall revenue and profit goals into clear, consumable input, we empower teams to work efficiently toward achieving company objectives. Planning is conducted at different levels of granularity – from the strategic 5-year plan to the fiscal year plan, monthly targets, and daily forecasts. We continuously monitor our KPIs, analyze deviations, and drive corrective actions. Through precise forecasting and target setting, as well as campaigns and performance analysis, we provide data‑driven insights and hence support and guide our various stakeholders, like Pricing, Marketing, Merchandise Planning, Partner Management or Logistics, in their business decisions.

• Strategically plan key business metrics from top‑line revenue and discounts down to contribution margin across diverse planning cycles such as fiscal year planning, monthly targets, and rolling 16‑week forecasts
• Align annual budgets with business teams such as Buying, Merchandise Planning, and Partner Management, and track target achievement throughout the year
• Monitor current trading and understand performance drivers to create robust and high‑accuracy forecasts
• Continuously track core business and performance metrics, analyze plan deviations, and provide clear recommendations for action
• Partner closely with the Pricing, Campaigns, and Marketing teams to drive the commercial steering of ABOUT YOU
• Prepare cross‑team ad hoc analyses and build dashboards to support data‑driven decision‑making across teams
• Drive process optimization and further automate our planning processes
  

Qualifications

• University degree in business administration or a comparable qualification
• Initial relevant professional experience in planning, finance, controlling, or management consulting, ideally in a dynamic e‑commerce or fashion environment
• Good understanding of common performance metrics and excellent MS Excel skills
• Strong analytical mindset, strong ownership, entrepreneurial drive, and hands‑on mentality
• Very good German or English skills
  

Nice To Have

• Basic knowledge of SQL and/or Google Looker Studio is a plus
  

Additional Information
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A Place Where You Can Be You
We take it as our responsibility to create an environment where everyone feels welcome, exactly as they are.
Different backgrounds and perspectives make us stronger and shape our culture in ways that matter.
What we stand for internally, we stand for as a brand: acceptance, inclusion, and a fairer approach to fashion.