In-Season Merchandise Planning Lead

LEVI STRAUSS (MALAYSIA) SDN. BHD.; Selangor; On-site; MYR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Levi Strauss (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. is seeking a Merchandise Planning Lead to advise the SEA Trading Lead and Market Country Manager.

You will develop in-season trading capabilities and support end-to-end allocation to stores, collaborating with Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Commercial, and Finance teams. The role demands strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and experience in store allocation, OTB management, and market performance optimization across multiple markets in Southeast

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5-7 years of work experience in retail.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret meaningful themes from quantitative data.
• Ability to articulate key financial measures, and how they are used in key systems/tools.
• Comfort with systems and high proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel & PowerPoint).
• Prior experience with planning solutions (SAS, BI, SAP), a plus.

Responsibilities

• Manage assortment portfolio & life cycle within the season incorporating financial expectations.
• Collaborate with SEA Demand Planning, Market Finance and Commercial teams to reconcile bottom-up revenue plans and top-down sales targets for Market level.
• Manage & coordinate market store segmentation, buy budget and OTB management with key stakeholders in the local market.
• Support Market sales / GP$ / sell-out performance and align actions with Commercial & Finance Leads to manage in-season profitability, and maximize full price sell thru / margin whilst maintaining health of inventory profile.
• Develop accurate store inventory flow forecasts that support business strategies.
• Execute allocation strategies to optimize inventory, including new store assortments and replenishments for each Outlet based on BE (Brand Experience) and VM (Visual Merchandising) recommendations.
• Use inputs from sizing team, historical performance & qualitative feedback from retail ops to update allocation parameters and derive size curve by product/store in order to optimize store/door sell through.
• Participate in affiliate weekly operation meeting to proactively highlight issues to get resolution.
• Work with SEA inventory management to ensure consistent in-season allocation & replenishment to drive appropriate coverage within the market DC while managing through inventory spikes beyond the capacity of our stores.
• Bridge the communications between SEA and local functional teams to ensure ways of working and brand strategy are consistently executed in local market.
• Actively support local S&OP process, providing necessary insights and recommending courses of action.
• Develop market parameters (target Weeks of Cover & model stock) for new items and/or new stores with established monitoring mechanism (Scorecard).
• Collaborate with Order Management / Distribution / Logistics to plan out operation activities considering of holidays / capacity / manpower constraints.
• Hind-sighting store performance & end of season performance.

Skills

Analytical skills

Financial acumen

Microsoft Office

Stakeholder management

Problem solving

Education

Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience

Tools

SAS

BI

SAP

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Levi Strauss (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd. is seeking a Merchandise Planning Lead to advise the SEA Trading Lead and Market Country Manager.

You will develop in-season trading capabilities and support end-to-end allocation to stores, collaborating with Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Commercial, and Finance teams. The role demands strong analytical skills, financial acumen, and experience in store allocation, OTB management, and market performance optimization across multiple markets in Southeast