Merchandise Financial Planning Manager

Lego; City Of London; Hybrid; GBP 50,000 - 70,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading toy manufacturer in the City of London seeks an experienced financial planner to lead Merchandise Financial Planning across LEGO.com. The ideal candidate will craft retail plans, track performance metrics, and enhance collaboration across various functions. Join a vibrant team committed to children's rights and innovative play experiences. Competitive perks include Family Care Leave and hybrid working policies.

Benefits

Family Care Leave

Life and disability insurance

Wellbeing resources

Colleague discount

Bonus scheme

Hybrid work model

Qualifications

• Proven financial planning experience within a retail environment.
• Experience of crafting retail plans at various location levels.
• Demonstrating strong collaboration skills across various functions.
• Strong analytical approach with large data sets.
• Strong organizational skills and attention to detail.
• Results-driven with a can-do mindset.

Responsibilities

• Lead the Merchandise Financial Planning process for LEGO.com.
• Create and maintain plans driven by retail metrics.
• Support annual target setting across sales and inventory.
• Provide baseline metrics view tied to consumer sales plan.
• Track actual performance versus plan across all retail metrics.
• Identify risks and opportunities within financial plans.
• Build relationships with stakeholders to ensure plan accuracy.
• Work on process improvement and overall transformation readiness.

Skills

Financial planning

Retail planning

Statistical forecasting

Collaboration

Analytical skills

Organizational skills

Results driven

Job description

Job Description

• Merchandise Planning: Lead the Merchandise Financial Planning process for LEGO.com, across both AMS and EMEA regions, initially across an up-to 24-month horizon (expanding as our processes mature).
• Country Plans: Create and maintain a location first, retail-metrics driven perspective, which can be reconciled against the item level consumer sales plan.
• Target Setting: Support the process of annual target setting across sales, margin, inventory, location etc. for LEGO.com AMS/EMEA
• Metrics Planning: Provide a baseline metrics view, tied to the submtted consumer sales plan, which helps support downstream operational planning processes (orders, UPO, AOV etc.), delivering a more granular view for key campaign periods.
• Long Range Strategy: Support the work required to estimate future capacity requirements aligned to growth ambitions, for the LEGO.com business
• Performance Tracking: Track actual performance versus plan across all retail metrics and highlight any gap-to-target risk in a timely manner. Be an active participant in identifying commercial activities that help mitigate any such risk
• Shopper Trends: Use data related to active consumer base (acquisition rate, frequency, average spend etc.) to identify potential risks and opportunities within the financial plan
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Build strong relationships with stakeholders across the business (Finance, Category Management, Channel Heads, Marketing etc.) to ensure that the Merchandise Financial Plan is reflective of all key inputs
• Continuous Improvement: Work closely with MFP colleagues to ensure process improvement, global process alignment and overall transformation readiness
• Adhoc: As LEGO Retail is on a growth journey, there will be opportunities and expectations to lead regional and global projects across planning and operations. Current focus is on implementation of end-to-end retail planning capabilities (o9 platform) leveraging statistical forecasting

Qualifications

• Proven financial planning experience within a retail environment, covering on-line and brick-and-mortar channels
• Experience of crafting retail plans at various location levels, including Country and Store.
• Experience at using statistical forecasting for growing planning efficiency and accuracy
• Demonstrating strong collaboration skills across various functions, cultures and management levels.
• Strong analytical approach, the ability to spot patterns and draw conclusions from large data sets.
• Strong organizational skills, attention to detail, and ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Results driven with a can-do mindset that thrives in overcoming challenges!

Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.

What's in it for you?

Here is what you can expect:

• Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
• Insurances - All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
• Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
• Colleague Discount - We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
• Bonus - We do our best work to succeed together. When goals are reached and if eligible, you'll be rewarded through our bonus scheme.
• Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office. The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.

Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.

The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.

The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children's Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.

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