Merchandise financial planner

Join BESTSELLER’s Advanced Merchandise Planning Team!

Are you a strategic thinker with a passion for numbers and an eye for fashion? At BESTSELLER, we’re looking for a Merchandise Financial Planner to drive success across our merchandise planning and allocation program. This role collaborates closely across brands with merchandising, category management, commercial planning, and financial management to secure strong sales development, effective demand planning, and achieve our ambitious business targets.

Your Role

As Merchandise Financial Planner you will support in identifying top-down & bottom-up targets by category/business type/unit to maximize sales and achieve margin goals for the individual brand and across channels.

You will be responsible of optimizing business opportunities, forecast accuracy, and category performance based on history and current trends. The highly collaborative nature of this position requires excellent communication skills, keen attention to detail, and strong analytical abilities.

What You'll Do

• Responsible for the creation/maintenance of preseason and annual demand & inventory plans in collaboration with merchandising, planning, capacity, commercial, and finance teams.
• Responsible for the continual adjustment of the inseason forecast to identify gaps and opportunities vs the preseason plan.
• Collaboratively builds and proposes category SKU counts and other financial targets to the merchandising and category management teams each season to enhance profitability.
• Maintains the MFP tool and is responsible for updating monthly channel-level forecasts each season with thorough validation to ensure accuracy.
• Tracks product/category performance and uses analytics to identify key insights, and the latest trends, and recommends solutions to improve profitability.
• Creates/maintains hindsight analysis to impact future seasons’ plans around volume, margin, and productivity.
  
  

What You'll Bring To The Table

• BS or BA in business, finance, merchandising, or related field, or equivalent years of relevant and related experience
• 3-5+ years’ experience in merchandise planning, demand planning, buying, or financial planning; preferably in the consumer goods, footwear, or fashion/apparel industry
• Exposure to multi-dimensional (Multi-Category, Multi-Channel, Multi Geography) planning at week / Month/quarter and season levels.
• Extensive experience and proficiency in Excel with BI skills a plus, python also a plus
• Strong analytical and problem-solving abilities
• Excellent communication skills with keen attention to detail
• Proven ability to successfully work in a highly cross-functional environment
• Effective time management with demonstrated ability to prioritize, multi-task, and meet established deadlines
• Highly motivated and able to quickly adjust to changing priorities and conditions
  
  

WORKPLACE: Aarhus or Brande

About Bestseller

At BESTSELLER, we are more than 20,000 people in 38 different countries working for over 20 fashion brands such as JACK & JONES, SELECTED, VERO MODA, ONLY, PIECES, VILA, OBJECT, MAMALICIOUS, NAME IT, NOISY MAY and Y.A.S. We are a family-owned company with a strong foundation and values to build on, empowering us to pursue the ideas we believe in to take BESTSELLER forward. We are committed to diversity and provide equal opportunities for everyone, irrespective of sex, race, ethnicity, religion or belief, disability, age, sexual orientation or gender identity. We strive to create an empowering environment where people can thrive and develop. For more information, visit www.bestseller.com.