Assistant Planner, Sephora Account

LVMH; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 85,000; Full time

Job summary

Parfums Christian Dior, part of the LVMH Group, is seeking an Assistant Planner to optimize inventory levels, forecast demand, and ensure smooth product flow across the beauty supply chain. You will collaborate with merchandising, sales, and logistics to support strong in-store execution and maximize retail performance.

The role emphasizes cross-functional collaboration, data-driven decision making, and timely communication of stock priorities for launches and promotions in North America.

Qualifications

• Strong analytical aptitude and strategic thinking skills.
• Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.

Responsibilities

• Oversee in-stock positions for core and new products at SKU/store level to maintain healthy inventory levels.
• Analyze launch performance and seasonality, adjusting forecasts and inventory as needed.
• Generate weekly vendor/brand fill rate and lead time accuracy reports.
• Prepare analyses of location performance, best sellers/slow movers, and sell-through rates.
• Coordinate with planning teams to refine forecasts based on launches and events.
• Maintain PO tracking logs and ensure timely deliveries, pricing accuracy, and replenishment readiness.
• Set up new SKUs in planning systems for accurate purchasing and replenishment.
• Ensure data accuracy across systems to support reporting and forecasting.

Skills

Analytical thinking

Strategic thinking

Organizational skills

Attention to detail

Communication skills

Tools

Excel

Job description

From 1946, people of the House of Parfums Christian Dior in France and around the world embody the spirit of excellence, creativity, and the unique savoir-faire of its creator, the couturier-perfumer Christian Dior. Revolutionizing the codes of French elegance and luxury with its perfumes, combining tradition and daring innovation in makeup and skincare, we reinvent every day the Dior style and affirm beauty and joy in its entirety.

Parfums Christian Dior invites you today to join its North America teams.

Parfums Christian Dior is part of the LVMH Group.

The Assistant Planner plays a crucial role in supporting the planning team in optimizing inventory levels, forecasting product demand, and ensuring efficient product flow within the beauty supply chain. This position offers an excellent opportunity to develop foundational planning skills and gain comprehensive experience in the beauty retail sector.

The Assistant Planner will collaborate with cross-functional teams, including merchandising, sales, and logistics, to achieve business objectives and enhance product availability for our clients. This role also plays a key part in bridging planning and field execution, ensuring store teams are equipped with clear, timely insights on inventory, launches, and priorities to drive strong in-store execution and maximize retail performance.

Job responsibilities

POSITION OVERVIEW

Inventory Management & Allocation:

• Review and manage in-stock positions for core and new products at the SKU/store level to maintain healthy inventory levels.
• Oversee product allocations with analytical insights to support sales performance.
• Track and manage purchase orders (POs) from creation to timely receipt, ensuring accurate pricing, case packs, and delivery windows.
• Support the replenishment process, planning and monitoring inventory levels based on sales and stock throughout the season.
• Ensure timely receipt of inventory for new product launches, promotional events (e.g., Holiday, testers, sampling), and communicate any potential risks.
• Close purchase orders regularly to ensure inventory is accurately captured in replenishment systems.

Forecasting & Analysis:

• Assist in analyzing new product launch performance and seasonality, adjusting forecasts, receipts, and inventory levels as needed to drive business.
• Generate weekly reports on vendor/brand fill rates and lead time accuracy.
• Prepare analyses of location performance, best sellers/slow sellers, and sell-through rates.
• Report updated business trends and stock continuity weekly to cross-functional teams.
• Partner with planning teams to refine forecasts based on launch performance, event cadence, and evolving business trends.
• Liaise with internal and external partners (e.g., Sephora, supply chain) to resolve PO discrepancies and ensure on-time delivery.
• Communicate and elevate late key launches to the Planner and Merchant team, focusing on inventory strategy.
• Partner with buying/merchandising counterparts to ensure SKUs are set up correctly for ordering purposes.
• Maintain constant communication with the logistics center to anticipate increased picking/deliveries and sales cycles for key events.
• Communicate timely updates to field teams on inventory availability, launch timing, and key priorities to support strong in-store execution and alignment at the door level.
• Provide clear, actionable guidance to field partners to ensure awareness of stock flow, merchandising priorities, and any risks impacting store performance.

Systems & Data Management

• Set up new SKUs in planning systems to enable accurate purchasing, allocation, and replenishment.
• Maintain and update purchase order (PO) tracking logs, ensuring visibility to shipping status, delivery timing, and potential delays.
• Review and manage SKU lifecycle status, including activating and deactivating items for replenishment based on assortment and inventory strategy.
• Ensure data accuracy across systems to support reporting, forecasting, and inventory visibility.
• Support updates to merchandising and assortment systems to reflect planogram changes, newness launches, and promotional setups.

Profile

• Supply Chain Management, Merchandising, or a related field experience preferred
• 1–2 years of relevant experience in planning, inventory management, or a similar analytical role, preferably within the beauty or retail industry preferred
• Strong analytical aptitude and strategic thinking skills.
• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel (VLOOKUPs, Pivot Tables, logical formulas).
• Strong organizational skills and meticulous attention to detail.
• Clear and effective communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, deadline-driven environment and manage multiple priorities.
• Passion for the beauty industry and awareness of current market trends.

Additional information

This job description is intended to cover the core accountabilities of the position and is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee. Duties, responsibilities, and activities may change, or new ones may be assigned at any time with or without notice.

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

LVMH Inc. uses the published salary range as a guideline to provide our employees with market competitive pay while allowing for flexibility to recognize and reward various levels of expertise, performance, and tenure.

While the published salary range is a good faith reflection of the targeted salary level for the position, LVMH Inc. reserves the right to pay outside of the published range of $65,000-$85,000.

Christian Dior described himself as a fashion and perfume designer. The House of Dior, founded in 1946, changed the face of ladies’ style forever when its New Look was unveiled in the halls of 30 Avenue Montaigne on February 12, 1947. The revolutionary look was accompanied by a fragrance, Miss Dior, the finishing touch designed to "leave a trail of desire in a woman’s wake". This timeless perfume was the first fragrance created by a visionary brand which invented the concept of global beauty with its Rouge Dior and subsequent cosmetic lines.
The current-day trustees of this legendary expertise – Francis Kurkdjian, Perfume Creation Director, and Peter Philips, Creative and Image Director for Dior Makeup – are the heirs to Christian Dior’s perfectionism. The worldwide renown of the House’s creations is partly down to its seductive muses, including Charlize Theron, Natalie Portman and Robert Pattinson.

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