EMEA Wholesale Merchandise Planner — Open-to-Buy & Margin Strategy

Arc'teryx Equipment; Amsterdam; On-site; EUR 70,000 - 110,000; Full time

Job summary

ARC’TERYX is seeking a Wholesale Merchandise Planner - EMEA who owns the financial plan linking wholesale strategy to inventory and margin outcomes across accounts and region. You will build integrated merchandise financial plans translating sell-in targets into seasonal plans, collaborating with demand, supply, and commercial teams.

You will drive OTB management, scenario analysis, and cross-functional plan integration, surfacing risks early and connecting financial signals to business

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or a related field.
• 3-5+ years of experience in Merchandise Financial Planning, Financial Planning, or Demand Planning.
• Strong understanding of top-down and bottom-up planning methodologies and how they connect across wholesale channels.
• Strong understanding of wholesale performance metrics including bookings, sell-in, sell-through, fill rate, service levels, inventory productivity and gross margin.
• Advanced Excel and financial modelling skills, with strong data analytics and visualization capability.
• Experience with advanced planning tools such as o9, Blue Yonder, Anaplan, Oracle (preferred).

Responsibilities

• Build fiscal and seasonal wholesale merchandise financial plans aligned to sell-in strategies and account targets, including sales, margin, inventory, and receipt plans by account, region, and channel.
• Managing OTB in the context of wholesale demand, commitments, and inventory targets.
• Assess financial impacts of account mix, pricing, and commercial investments, ensuring plans support both growth and profitability objectives.
• Contributing to scenario and risk planning across wholesale channels, incorporating account demand variability, orderbook changes, and supply constraints.
• Monitoring in-season performance and reforecasting based on sell-in, sell-through, and account behavior.
• Monitoring orderbook performance, analyzing sell-in trends, cancellations, reorders and shipment risks to drive forecast accuracy and inventory decisions.
• Driving cross-functional integration across Demand Planning, Supply Planning, Inventory Planning, Merchandising, FP&A, and Commercial to ensure alignment between commercial plans, inventory flow, and supply constraints.
• Present financial plans, forecasts, risks, and opportunities to regional leadership and cross-functional stakeholders

Skills

Advanced Excel

Financial modelling

Data analytics

Education

Bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, or related field

Tools

o9

Blue Yonder

Anaplan

Oracle

Job description

ARC’TERYX is seeking a Wholesale Merchandise Planner - EMEA who owns the financial plan linking wholesale strategy to inventory and margin outcomes across accounts and region. You will build integrated merchandise financial plans translating sell-in targets into seasonal plans, collaborating with demand, supply, and commercial teams.

You will drive OTB management, scenario analysis, and cross-functional plan integration, surfacing risks early and connecting financial signals to business