Overview of the Job: The role focuses on optimizing consumer demand and supply to drive profitable growth and inventory productivity for GC Basketball total market. Planner will build seasonal product investment plans and strategies that align with financial targets and the brand vision, playing a key role in cross-functional collaboration to ensure the team adapts to retail speed.
Reporting Line: DIR, M’s Planning Running/Training, Basketball, GC
Key Partnership:
- Sports GM
- Sports Merch
- SSD & SBD
Job Responsibility:
- Develop a strategic framework for seasonal product investment planning.
- Lead GC Basketball buy strategy by reconciling topline financials, brand roadmap, assortment strategy, and marketplace capacity with bottom-up investment.
- Align plans with input and collaboration from key stakeholders, including Sports GM and the Merchandising team.
- Continuously monitor product performance and optimize future season inventory and investment based on the latest trends.
- Analyze product performance, including sell-through rates, color performance, and SKU productivity.
Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):
- Buying, Planning, Assortment Planning experience with apparel / footwear
- Comprehensive understanding of retail math
- Experience in developing an understanding of consumers, competitors, and retail trends
- Ability to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business
- Advanced knowledge of MS office applications; proficiency in Excel
- Product Knowledge
Experience Required (Soft skills):
- Be Open and Curious
- High profile x-functional communication
- Visionary and Strategic
- Strong team player and management on all aspects of the business
- Learning agility
- Bachelor degree or above
- Fluent in Chinese & English