Store Inventory Planner

At SEPHORA UK, beauty isn’t just what we sell - it’s who we are. It’s the freedom to express yourself, the thrill of discovering something new, and the power of belonging to a community that celebrates every identity. From our beginnings in France to becoming part of the LVMH family, we’ve always pushed boundaries through creativity, innovation, and inclusivity.

Today, as we continue our exciting expansion across the UK, we’re looking for passionate, driven individuals to help shape the future of prestige beauty in one of the world’s most dynamic retail markets.

The Opportunity – 12 Month Fixed Term Contract

We're looking for a New Store Inventory Planner to join Sephora UK on a 12-month fixed-term contract during an exciting period of growth and expansion. As we continue to open new stores across the UK, you'll play a pivotal role in ensuring every location launches with the right inventory, in the right place, at the right time.

Acting as the inventory planning lead for all new store openings, you'll work at the heart of our expansion programme, partnering closely with Supply Chain, Merchandising, Retail Operations, Property and Project teams to bring new stores to life. From defining opening stock strategies and coordinating critical milestones, to supporting stores through their launch and into business-as-usual operations, you'll be responsible for creating a seamless inventory journey from day one.

This is a unique opportunity to build and shape the inventory planning framework that underpins our future growth, driving consistency, improving processes, and ensuring every new Sephora store is set up for success.

What you’ll be doing:

• Lead the end-to-end inventory planning process for all new store openings across Sephora UK.
• Develop opening stock plans tailored to store size, format, assortment strategy, fixture capacity and commercial objectives.
• Build and maintain inventory planning templates, frameworks and assumptions to create a scalable and repeatable new store process.
• Partner closely with Demand Planning to align opening forecasts, trading assumptions and launch plans.
• Collaborate with Supply Planning teams to ensure stock requirements are operationally achievable and risks are identified early.
• Own the inventory planning critical path for each store opening, ensuring key milestones are delivered on time.
• Support stock ranging, sizing, balancing and ordering activities to ensure strong availability for launch.
• Establish initial replenishment parameters and inventory settings to support successful trading from opening.
• Monitor store performance during the stabilisation period, reviewing sales, stock cover and availability to identify improvement opportunities.
• Coordinate the handover of stores into business-as-usual ownership, ensuring a smooth transition into ongoing inventory management.
• Drive continuous improvement across new store planning processes, reporting and tools.
• Maintain clear documentation of planning assumptions, decisions, risks and handover criteria.

What you’ll bring…

You'll be a highly organised and commercially minded planner who enjoys bringing structure to complex projects and collaborating across multiple teams. Comfortable working in a fast-paced environment, you'll combine strong analytical skills with excellent stakeholder management to ensure every new store opening is delivered successfully.

• Experience in inventory planning, merchandise planning, supply chain planning or a similar retail or FMCG environment.
• Strong understanding of inventory management principles, stock flow and replenishment processes.
• Excellent analytical capability, with advanced Excel skills and confidence working with large data sets.
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