Strategic Product Planning Lead

Ralph Lauren; New York (NY); On-site; USD 65,000 - 129,000; Full time

Job summary

Ralph Lauren Corporation seeks a Manager of Product Planning to drive IBP-based planning across Brands and Categories in New York. You will translate merchandising strategy into actionable insights and executive-ready materials, partnering with Brand Merchandising, Demand and Supply Planning, Finance, and Analytics teams.

You'll develop dashboards, analyze metrics, and help improve assortment productivity and cross-functional alignment throughout the seasonal planning lifecycle.

Qualifications

• Experience in merchandising, product planning, or related analytical functions.
• Understanding of seasonal planning, assortment planning, and retail metrics.
• Ability to translate data into executive-level insights.
• Strong Excel and PowerPoint skills with dashboards experience.

Responsibilities

• Support product planning activities across assigned brands and categories in IBP.
• Develop executive-ready decision materials with metrics, trade-offs and actions.
• Translate planning dashboards and performance metrics into insights for leadership.
• Track decisions, actions, ownership, and open questions across planning forums.
• Analyze SKU productivity, revenue per SKU, sell-through and margin performance.
• Standardize recurring reporting, templates, data inputs, and routines.
• Identify opportunities to improve planning processes and cross-functional collaboration.
• Provide data-driven recommendations to support planning discussions.

Skills

Merchandising

Product planning

Forecasting

Data interpretation

Stakeholder management

Project management

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

Job description

Ralph Lauren Corporation seeks a Manager of Product Planning to drive IBP-based planning across Brands and Categories in New York. You will translate merchandising strategy into actionable insights and executive-ready materials, partnering with Brand Merchandising, Demand and Supply Planning, Finance, and Analytics teams.

You'll develop dashboards, analyze metrics, and help improve assortment productivity and cross-functional alignment throughout the seasonal planning lifecycle.