Product Planning Lead, Men’s — Data-Driven IBP Strategist

Ralph Lauren; New York (NY); On-site; USD 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Ralph Lauren seeks a Manager, Product Planning to drive the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process across Brands and Categories. You will translate merchandising strategies into actionable planning insights, collaborating with Brand Merchandising, Demand, Supply Planning, Finance, and Analytics to improve assortment productivity and cross-functional alignment.

The role emphasizes structured planning routines, executive-ready materials, and data-driven recommendations to influence decisions

Qualifications

• Experience in merchandising, product planning, merchandise planning, business planning, retail strategy, forecasting, or related analytical functions.
• Strong understanding of seasonal merchandise planning processes, product lifecycle management, assortment planning, and retail performance metrics.
• Ability to synthesize complex business information into clear insights, recommendations, and executive-level narratives.

Responsibilities

• Support product planning activities across assigned brands and categories, ensuring seasonal planning milestones, inputs, outputs, and follow-up actions are completed on time.
• Develop executive-ready decision materials that clearly articulate product planning choices, business impacts, key metrics, trade-offs, risks, and recommended actions.
• Translate planning dashboards, data, and performance metrics into concise business insights for Brand Merchandising and IBP leadership.
• Track decisions, action items, ownership, and open questions across product planning forums and key seasonal planning milestones.
• Analyze product planning metrics including SKU productivity, Birthed CCs, Produced CCs, Commonality, adoption rate, revenue per SKU, sell-through, margin, and AUR performance.
• Partner with Analytics and Product Planning leadership to standardize recurring reporting, planning templates, data inputs, and planning routines.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning processes, decision-making, and cross-functional collaboration.
• Support planning discussions by providing clear, data-driven recommendations and insights.

Skills

Merchandising experience

Product planning

Forecasting

Analytical thinking

Excel

PowerPoint

Stakeholder management

Cross-functional collaboration

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Ralph Lauren seeks a Manager, Product Planning to drive the Integrated Business Planning (IBP) process across Brands and Categories. You will translate merchandising strategies into actionable planning insights, collaborating with Brand Merchandising, Demand, Supply Planning, Finance, and Analytics to improve assortment productivity and cross-functional alignment.

The role emphasizes structured planning routines, executive-ready materials, and data-driven recommendations to influence decisions