The North Face: Planner

As part of the Global Merchandising Planning team, the Planner supports product and assortment planning across global and regional markets. The role partners closely with Merchandising, Operations, Sales, Regional teams and Finance to build demand plans and provide insights that support the brand's strategic, financial and distribution goals. The position combines analytical reporting, seasonal plan development and cross-functional coordination across global and regional planning activities.

• Support the development of analytical frameworks and reporting to inform merchandising strategies, providing quantitative and qualitative analysis of business and product performance globally and regionally.
• Provide SKU count recommendations based on historical trends, productivity and market opportunities.
• Build bottom-up plans by classification and channel at the style and colour level, incorporating global insights, regional sell-in and sell-through data, historical trends and seasonal initiatives.
• Analyse product performance to identify opportunities and risks and support seasonal planning decisions.
• Support the development and maintenance of global and regional plans that connect sales and product strategies with Operations and Supply Chain, partnering with regional planning counterparts.
• Support seasonal merchandising plan handoffs to Forecasting and Operations, highlighting key initiatives, opportunities and risks.
• Maintain merchandising planning tools used to plan and track seasonal assortments and provide visibility to the Merchandising team and other business stakeholders.
• Support the development of seasonal revenue targets by channel and category aligned with financial and brand strategies, ensuring product merchandising plans are aligned with financial targets and seasonal strategies.
• Partner with Merchandising, Finance, Sales, Operations and Demand Planning to support global and regional revenue and productivity targets and help connect forecasts with strategic product priorities.
• Manage data and develop recurring and ad-hoc reporting using Excel, Power BI and/or Tableau.

• 5+ years of relevant experience and professional achievements.
• Strong Microsoft Office skills, with advanced Excel capabilities.
• Experience with product forecasting, merchandise planning and/or strategic planning.
• Experience analysing retail sales, inventory or product performance.
• Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret data and translate findings into actionable business insights.
• Ability to communicate analyses clearly to cross-functional partners.

• Experience with Tableau, Power BI or similar reporting and visualisation tools.
• Formal education in a related field.

• Eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential; specific details of additional compensation eligibility are provided during the recruiting and interview process.

• Benefits are offered through VF Corporation, including medical plans; a general overview of each benefit programme offered, including this year's medical plan rates, is available, and detailed information is provided during the hiring process.