Head of Planning
Kurt Geiger | About Us
We are an inclusive, creative footwear and accessories brand powered by kindness. We want to empower our talent to be confident and true to themselves, the London way. London is our home, our heartbeat, and we draw inspiration from the energy and spirit of the city; its diversity and creativity. For over fifty years our team of in-house shoe and accessory designers have been creating authentic, distinctive designs from our London headquarters. The rainbow is our signature. It represents the good energy and love we have for our community and the many ways we collectively express our individual style.
Planning, Forecasting and Insight
- Work with senior merchandise team to develop bi-annual seasonal budgets and present it back to the board. This would involve evaluating, guiding and challenging the product merchandisers on Key KPI’s across the varied collection portfolio and across a wide variety of distribution points
- Key KPI’s involved in the planning process are Net Turnover, Intake Margin, Achieved Margin, Open to Buy, Stock Turn, Price and Option control.
- Proactively highlight risks and opportunities and provide both support and challenge to business stakeholders in relation to the key KPI’s.
- Coordinate key planning activities across the merchandising department and ensure that key KPI’s are aligned with the financial strategy of the company.
- Oversee the monthly WSSI reforecasting process and preparing executive updates to the CFO in conjunction with finance.
- Support logistics function with comprehensive volume models to enable the business to better plan for opportunities while reducing operating costs.
- Be responsible to help continuously develop new insight or aid strategy formulation with relevant analysis.
- Business owner of the merchandise planning system (IBM TM1) and its continued enhancement to improve the planning process
Stock Control
- Ensure the management and product ranging of new store openings and closures.
- Manage the seasonal process of old stock recall.
- Oversee the management of trading priorities and stock management for international operations.
General
- Principle merchandising contact for wholesale.
- Key point of contact for the ad-hoc questions that arise in an entrepreneurial environment
Requirements
Experience
- The role requires strong management of processes and control procedures and a key understanding of numerical merchandising KPI’s.
- Proven experience in establishing and managing relationships with key business decision makers. Both support and challenge commercial managers within the business.
- Ability to confidently liaise with other functions in the business to capture and reconcile data from multiple sources and make justifiable business assumptions on the basis of available data.
Skills
- Strong analytical, reporting and advanced planning skills
- Strong written and verbal communication skills that can transcend up and down the business structure
- Able to build strong internal relationships at a senior level across a wide variety of business functions
- High attention to detail with a strong due diligence mindset
- Ability to comfortably work in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment
- Ability to get into the detail but still have a helicopter view of the current task.
- Advanced knowledge of Excel and PowerPoint
Benefits
- Competitive basic salary
- Pension and life assurance
- Enviable discounts
- Half day every 'pay day' Friday
- RetailTrust Support
Our Stores
The first Kurt Geiger store opened on London Bond street in 1963. Today, our brand has global appeal and is distributed in hundreds of cities around the world. We operate over 70 stand-alone stores nationwide, including our new flagship store on London Oxford street, and in over 400 stores globally. Beyond stand-alone stores and retail pop ups, our retail partners include some of the world’s most famous department stores.
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