Business Planner

Position Purpose and Scope

This role will support the Club Monaco stores business inclusive of the US, Canada & UK through daily, weekly and monthly reporting to aid business decisions. Reporting to the Senior Director of Stores, this individual will work with the Stores, eCommerce, Merchandise Planning, Finance, DC and Operation teams to recap current business results, set annual targets and revise the monthly forecast. This individual will attend all regular business reviews and cross functional strategic touchpoints. Partnership with the cross functional teams will be critical as this person will gather relevant inputs into the monthly forecast based on reviews with the team. 

Key Responsibilities

• Collaborate with the D365 and Power BI teams to build out store daily, weekly and monthly reporting
• Run daily and weekly sales reporting to aid in business analysis and strategy development, report out results to cross functional teams.
• Support the monthly forecasting review process, actualizing the previous month and inputting revised sales, margin, units and inventory turn by month, week and day (requires alignment with Planning, Merchandising, and Finance teams)
• Build daily forecasts and provide monthly reforecasts by KPI (traffic, conversion, ADT). Communicate risks and opportunities to key stakeholders to react to business trends to reach financial goals
• Create informative and actionable reporting that highlights relevant business trends
• Analyze reports, understanding sales metrics in different perspectives to drive strategic action plans
• Conduct business case study for store productivity and possible door expansion
• Communicate regularly with the fulfillment teams to anticipate impacts to the business

Requirements

• Bachelors degree required
• At least three-five years experience as a planner or equivalent required
• Computer proficiency in MS Office: Excel, Outlook, Word
• Strong understanding of retail KPIs, Excel formulas (vlookups, pivot tables, goalseek)
• Strong numerical and analytical skills
• Excellent attention to detail
• Excellent interpersonal skills supporting a team environment
• Excellent English communication skills - verbal and written
• Excellent time management/project skills
• Strong planning and organizational skills with a sense of priority for deadlines and attention to detail
• Experience with Enterprise Planning, Power BI & Microsoft D 365 a plus