Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Planning

Position: lululemon Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Planning
Description & Requirements
Who We Are

lululemon is a yoga inspired technical apparel company up to big things. The practice and philosophy of yoga forms our overall purpose to elevate the world through the power of practice. We are proud to be a growing global company with locations all around the world, from Vancouver to Shanghai, and places in between. We owe our success to our innovative product, our emphasis on our stores, our commitment to our people, and the incredible connections we get to make in every community we are in.

About This Team

The Global Planning team is responsible for the creation and execution of the sales and inventory plans that support overarching business financial objectives and the product strategy. They work closely with Merchandising to understand new product trends (Merchandising) and regional/climate selling, size trends, and ensure product is sent to the right Distribution Centre. The team monitors the business on a daily, weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis, understanding changes in trend and reacting to the business to maximize sales and mitigate risk.

The priority is to understand and protect the guest experience, followed by delivering profitable sales growth.

A Day in the Life

The Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Planning partners with Global Merchandising to develop the financial architecture, global category plans and drives alignment on the Global Line Architecture (Sales, IMU, CC Targets). This person sets the financial framework, strategy and targets that support departmental/divisional merchandise strategies they own. The Senior Manager, Global Merchandise Planning partners with Global Merchandising to incorporate relevant regional input to build and quantify shell plans and preliminary assortments, supporting both Global and Regional seasonal strategies.

You must collaborate effectively with Global and Regional Planning, Sourcing, Production and the Global Brand Team to bring the product line to life.

Develop the financial architecture and global category plans by class, activity, franchise

Partner with Global Merchandising and drive alignment on the Global Line Architecture

Accountable for driving accuracy for the Global Merch Planning team in completing the global quantification of the assortment (vendor allocation units, GVLP units, forecast rolling 24 month Demand Plan)

Responsible for hiring, team/individual development

Accountable for departmental/team execution and results
• Drive cross-functional alignment around resources needed to bring product strategy to life

Partners with global merchandising in finalizing the Seasonal Product Roadmap and Assortment Strategy

Develop content for showback to CMO (including strategy, directional investment level)

Qualifications

College certificate or University degree is required, preferably in Commerce or Business Administration

7+ Years of Planning experience or progressive financial analysis and reporting experience, combination of people management and industry experience

Experience and proven ability in coaching, mentoring and leading a team of direct reports

Proven ability to work with and lead a cross functional team

Expert knowledge of Excel is required

Excellent team player as well as the ability to work independently.

Effective communication skills (written & verbal) & extremely organized, thorough and able to prioritize

Must Haves

Acknowledge the presence of choice in every moment and take personal responsibility for your life.

Possess an entrepreneurial spirit and continuously innovate to achieve great results.

Communicate with honesty and kindness and create the space for others to do the same.

Lead with courage, knowing the possibility of greatness is bigger than the fear of failure.

Foster connection by putting people first and building trusting relationships.

Integrate fun and joy as a way of being and working, aka doesn't take yourself too seriously.

Additional Notes
Immigration support is potentially available for this role.

Compensation and Benefits Package
lululemon's compensation offerings are grounded in a pay-for-performance philosophy that recognizes exceptional individual and team performance. The typical…