Sales Planner Temp

Solomon Page; New York (NY); Hybrid; USD 48,216 - 55,104; Part time

Job summary

Solomon Page is seeking a Sales Planner for a luxury fashion client in Midtown Manhattan. This hybrid role supports sales performance reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and business analysis across Retail, Outlet, and Wholesale channels, collaborating with Finance, Merchandising, HR, Operations, and HQo teams.

The position involves 6-month contract work, requires 3 onsite days, and offers an hourly pay rate of $35.00-$40.00 based on experience.

Responsibilities

• Weekly and Monthly reporting on sales performance including but not limited to versus financial targets, prior-year results, category-level analysis
• Track and document key events impacting sales or traffic, such as exceptional sales spikes, events, renovations, etc.
• Communicate current business trends to teams and leadership through regular updates, incorporating qualitative insights.
• Update and maintain Power Query historical sales databases that feed reporting
• Support full-year budget preparation and subsequent forecasts by store, month, week, and category, including fulfillment of HQ requests. Primary responsibility will be for Outlet and Wholesale.
• Develop weekly sales projections for the current and forward-looking weeks, updating as needed.
• Partner with the Merchandising team to set seasonal wholesale budgets and track performance throughout the year, also versus financial targets.
• Prepare monthly wholesale financial projections by month and season, incorporating approved budgets, orders, and returns, in close partnership with Prada Sales Planning and Controlling.
• Prepare monthly retail and wholesale market share sales recaps.
• Update and maintain wholesale historical budget databases
• Manage the end-to-end process for Outlet monthly store targets, including proposal development, communication, submission, and performance tracking.
• Support Outlet Operations and Allocation team with historical sales data as needed.
• Share monthly store target results with Human Resources to support incentive and payout calculations

Job description

Our client, a luxury fashion company, is looking for a Sales Planner to join their team! This will be a hybrid role working out of their office in Midtown Manhattan. This role will involve supporting sales performance reporting, forecasting, budgeting, and business analysis across Retail, Outlet, and Wholesale channels. The individual will work closely with the Finance, Merchandising, HR, Operations, and HQo teams.

• This is a 6 month contract and requires 3 days onsite.
• Hourly pay rate is $35.00-$40.00 based on experience.

Responsibilities

• Weekly and Monthly reporting on sales performance including but not limited to versus financial targets, prior-year results, category-level analysis
• Track and document key events impacting sales or traffic, such as exceptional sales spikes, events, renovations, etc.
• Communicate current business trends to teams and leadership through regular updates, incorporating qualitative insights.
• Update and maintain Power Query historical sales databases that feed reporting

Forecasting, Projections & Budgeting

• Support full-year budget preparation and subsequent forecasts by store, month, week, and category, including fulfillment of HQ requests. Primary responsibility will be for Outlet and Wholesale.
• Develop weekly sales projections for the current and forward-looking weeks, updating as needed.

Wholesale Planning & Tracking

• Partner with the Merchandising team to set seasonal wholesale budgets and track performance throughout the year, also versus financial targets.
• Prepare monthly wholesale financial projections by month and season, incorporating approved budgets, orders, and returns, in close partnership with Prada Sales Planning and Controlling.
• Prepare monthly retail and wholesale market share sales recaps.
• Update and maintain wholesale historical budget databases

Outlet Targets, Incentives & Stakeholder Support

• Manage the end-to-end process for Outlet monthly store targets, including proposal development, communication, submission, and performance tracking.
• Support Outlet Operations and Allocation team with historical sales data as needed.
• Share monthly store target results with Human Resources to support incentive and payout calculations.