Head of Planning (TNF AMER)

As part of The North Face Americas leadership team, this role leads the Americas Planning team and is responsible for setting and executing the end-to-end merchandise and inventory (demand/supply) planning strategy across all channels. It partners closely with Merchandising, Supply Chain, Finance, Sales, Stores, and E-commerce to drive profitable growth, optimise inventory investment, and improve demand responsiveness in a complex omnichannel environment. The role leads a multi-disciplinary organisation spanning Demand & Supply Planning, Allocation, Channel Planning & Buying, Inventory Management, and Planning Analytics and Marketplace management, ensuring a single, integrated view of demand, inventory, and financial outcomes across the enterprise.

• Own the end-to-end planning vision across footwear and apparel, translating corporate and channel strategies into five-year long-range, annual, and seasonal plans covering sales, margin, and inventory by channel and country within the Americas, and aligning demand, supply, inventory
• And financial plans with company growth objectives.
• Own the quality and integrity of the Americas business plan, proactively identifying gaps to sales, margin, and inventory targets and driving cross-functional actions to close them.
• Establish an omnichannel planning framework that balances digital, wholesale, and brick-and-mortar needs while optimising total enterprise outcomes, and lead scenario planning and risk mitigation for demand volatility, supply constraints, and channel shifts.
• Oversee demand forecasting and supply planning, set inventory targets and guardrails to support availability, service levels, and margin while minimising excess and obsolescence, drive inventory productivity through disciplined receipt flow, lifecycle management, and exit strategies
• And partner with Supply Chain to align capacity, lead times, and deployment strategies.
• Lead channel-specific planning approaches for DTC/e-commerce, wholesale, and retail, oversee allocation strategy to ensure right product, right place, right time, oversee promotional cadence across DTC and ensure marketplace price parity
• And partner with Merchandising and Buying to inform assortment architecture, depth, and flow decisions.
• Own the planning analytics roadmap, ensuring clear KPIs, reporting, and insights that support strategic and in-season decisions, elevate the use of data, advanced analytics, and planning systems to improve forecast accuracy, SCO productivity, inventory turns, and margin outcomes
• And drive continuous improvement of planning tools, processes, and ways of working.
• Act as a key thought partner to Merchandising, Finance, Sales, Digital, and Operations leaders, provide clear, concise insights and recommendations to executive leadership to enable faster and better-informed decisions
• And align financial planning with execution so plans translate into operational outcomes.
• Lead and develop high-performing teams across Allocation, Inventory Planning, Channel Planning/Buying, Inventory Management, and Analytics, build strong succession plans, elevate functional capability through coaching, talent development, and organisational design
• And foster a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.
• Deliver profitable, sustainable growth by translating business strategy into integrated sales, margin, inventory, and demand plans across the Americas, improve forecast accuracy and demand responsiveness, increase inventory productivity, and optimise marketplace availability.
• Strengthen planning discipline and execution by establishing clear planning processes, decision rights, KPIs, and accountability across seasonal, annual, and long-range planning, create one integrated view of the business across DTC, Digital, Wholesale, and Retail
• Elevate commercial decision-making with timely insights, scenarios, risks, and recommendations, and build a high-performing Planning organisation with succession depth and a culture of accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement.

• 12+ years of progressive leadership experience in merchandise planning, buying, demand planning, or inventory management within footwear, apparel, or consumer retail.
• Proven leadership experience managing multi-channel, enterprise-scale planning teams.
• Deep expertise in demand forecasting, inventory optimization, allocation, and financial planning.
• Strong understanding of digital, wholesale, and physical retail dynamics and trade-offs.
• Highly analytical with the ability to translate data into clear commercial actions.
• Experienced influencer with the ability to partner effectively at the executive level.
• Advanced planning systems knowledge.
• Strong financial and business acumen.
• Strategic, enterprise-minded thinker with strong commercial judgment.
• Comfortable navigating ambiguity and complexity.
• Results-oriented with a bias toward action.
• Collaborative, transparent, and customer-focused.
• Passion for product, performance, and talent development.

• Formal education in a related field is beneficial but not required.

• Eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential.
• Eligible to participate in a Long-Term Incentive Plan.

• Access to VF Corporation benefit programs, with a general overview available including current medical plan rates.