Planning Manager

Tapestry, Inc.; New York (NY); On-site; USD 90,000 - 150,000; Full time

Job summary

Kate Spade New York is seeking a Planning Manager to drive sales growth for North America stores and ecommerce through forecasting, budgeting, and inventory management. You will analyze trends, lead promotional planning, and partner with Buying and Global Planning to optimize margins and inventory.

The successful candidate will have 5–7 years of planning experience in retail, strong communication, and advanced Excel skills, thriving in a fast-paced environment.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of planning experience in a vertical retail organization.
• Strong communication skills and ability to collaborate cross-functionally.
• Excellent time management and organizational abilities.
• Advanced Excel skills: pivot tables, vlookup, sumif.

Responsibilities

• Lead monthly sales, margin, and inventory forecasting by category, identifying risks and opportunities to achieve financial targets across categories and channels.
• Analyze historical trends and inseason performance to understand business drivers and provide actionable insights to key stakeholders.
• Own weekly and monthly promotional event planning, partnering with Buying to determine optimal discount strategies that balance sales and margin objectives.
• Review and approve seasonal markdowns, ensuring pricing strategies align with financial goals.
• Manage the seasonal purchase budget process, collaborating with Buying and Global Planning to develop aligned category and channel sales, margin, and inventory plans.
• Deliver quantitative and qualitative insights during business reviews, seasonal hindsight meetings, and investment reviews.
• Partner cross functionally (Global Planning, Store Operations, Outlet, Wholesale, etc.) to optimize inventory management and support business strategies.
• Oversee weekly product reporting for cross-functional teams, ensuring accuracy and visibility to key KPIs.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses to deliver clear conclusions and recommended actions.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance planning processes, systems, and reporting to drive efficiency and improve decision-making.

Skills

5-7 years planning experience

Strong communication skills

Time management & organizational

Mathematical & analytical skills

Advanced Excel (pivot tables, vlookup,

Tools

Planning system

Job description

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home decor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles.

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio - a global house of brands committed to stretching what's possible.

A member of the Tapestry family, we are part of a global house of brands that has unwavering optimism and is committed to being innovative and wholly inclusive. Visit Our People page to learn more about Tapestry's commitment to equity, inclusion, and diversity.

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always stood for optimistic femininity. Today, the brand is a global life and style house with handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, gifts, home decor and more. Polished ease, thoughtful details and a modern, sophisticated use of color-Kate Spade New York's founding principles define a unique style synonymous with joy.

Kate Spade New York is part of the Tapestry portfolio - a global house of brands powered by optimism, innovation, and inclusivity.

Job Title: Planning Manager

Primary Purpose:

Having keen analytical insight to manage sales, margin, and inventory forecasting while mitigating risk to drive sales growth for North America stores and ecommerce channels.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in planning to...

• Lead monthly sales, margin, and inventory reforecasting by category, identifying risks and opportunities to achieve financial targets across categories and channels.
• Analyze historical trends and inseason performance to understand business drivers and provide actionable insights to key stakeholders.
• Own weekly and monthly promotional event planning, partnering with Buying to determine optimal discount strategies that balance sales and margin objectives.
• Review and approve seasonal markdowns, ensuring pricing strategies align with financial goals.
• Manage the seasonal purchase budget process, collaborating with Buying and Global Planning to develop aligned category and channel sales, margin, and inventory plans.
• Deliver quantitative and qualitative insights during business reviews, seasonal hindsight meetings, and investment reviews.
• Partner cross functionally (Global Planning, Store Operations, Outlet, Wholesale, etc.) to optimize inventory management and support business strategies.
• Oversee weekly product reporting for cross-functional teams, ensuring accuracy and visibility to key KPIs.
• Conduct ad-hoc analyses to deliver clear conclusions and recommended actions.
• Continuously evaluate and enhance planning processes, systems, and reporting to drive efficiency and improve decision-making.

The accomplished individual will possess...

• 5-7 years of prior planning experience, especially in a vertical retail organization.
• Strong communication skills
• Able to multi-task effectively through excellent time management and organizational skills
• Strong mathematical and analytical skills, both quantitative and qualitative
• Advanced proficiency with Excel (pivot tables, vlookup, sumif)

An outstanding professional will have...

• Experience using a planning system, with an aptitude to quickly learn system functionality.
• Ability to manage working in fast-paced environment.

Our Competencies for All Employees

• Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
• Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
• Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
• Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive