Merchandise Planner

Design Your Future at PVH Merchandise Planner

Our Omni Planning & Allocation team mission is to drive commercial performance through strong financial planning, demand forecasting, and smart allocation & replenishment across all channels and categories. The team sets the strategic guardrails for promotions and markdown decisions, ensuring margin and profitability are maximized. As the backbone of the department, the team works closely with Buying & Merchandising, DTC Channels (eCom, Full Price, Outlet), Regional Hubs, and Finance to ensure all inventory and product decisions are aligned with company-wide planning strategies.

This is an evergreen opportunity — we continuously connect with strong planning talent across Europe who are interested in joining our team in Amsterdam and relocating to the Netherlands as part of their next career step.

As a Merchandise Planner, you are responsible for developing and executing merchandise financial and inventory plans across Full Price, Outlet or eCommerce channels for selected product categories or divisions. You work closely with Trade, Buying and Branch Planning teams to ensure alignment across sales, margin and inventory targets. Your contribution directly supports operational excellence and commercial success.

• Develop merchandise plans including inventory buy targets, seasonal sales and margin targets.
• Partner with commercial planning and buying strategy teams to ensure alignment.
• Conduct hindsight analysis and define forward strategies with Buying counterparts during Seasonal Reviews.
• Prepare store clusters based on store types, capacity grading and location needs during Store & Channel Reviews.
• Align with Branch Planning and eCommerce planning teams.
• Develop buying budgets to meet sales and stock targets (Buying Budget & Quantification).
• Review and finalize SKU-level buy quantities ahead of deadlines.
• Optimize initial allocation and seasonal/NOS replenishment frameworks (Allocation & Replenishment).
• Prepare monthly NOS demand plans based on trends and stock levels.
• Manage WSSI forecasting and monitor in-season performance; identify risks and opportunities, driving actions to maximize profitability (Open-to-Buy Management).
• Define financial guardrails and discount strategies for promotions & markdown, balancing margin protection with inventory clearance objectives.
• Contribute to system and process enhancements to increase team efficiency (Continuous Improvement).

• Delivery of net sales and net margin in line with targets.
• Strong stock management (stock turn).
• High planning accuracy across merchandise plans.

• 3–5+ years’ experience in merchandise planning, financial planning, branch planning or commercial planning within fashion, retail or consumer goods.
• Strong understanding of merchandise planning, markdown and promotion management.
• Commercial and results-driven mindset.
• Strong analytical and data-driven decision-making skills.
• Effective stakeholder management across cross-functional teams.
• Experience managing omni-channel inventory flows and demand forecasting.
• Knowledge of planning systems (e.g. SAP, Oracle).
• Strong problem-solving skills.
• Highly adaptable and proactive.
• Fluent in English.
• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Economics or Retail preferred.
• Open to be relocated to Amsterdam.