Wholesale Commercial Planner

Job Description

The Opportunity:

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The Wholesale Planner provides in-depth analysis at the account and location level across designated retailers and brands. This role evaluates commercial initiatives such as new product launches, activations, and animation programs to ensure selling targets and ROI requirements are achieved.

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The Planner partners cross-functionally with Demand Planning, Marketing, Sales, Sales Operations, Customer Service, Finance, and Field Teams to drive performance, optimize inventory, and unlock growth opportunities across the portfolio.

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What you’ll get to do:

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Sales & Stock Performance

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• Identify and act on regional and door-level opportunities to unlock incremental sales
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• Develop and propose assortment optimizations based on location-level selling trends
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• Align account plans with bonus targets by embedding door-level opportunities into forecasts
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• Deliver weekly business reporting with clear topline insights and actionable location highlights
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• Track and evaluate new launches at the door level to ensure strong execution and early read performance
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Drive Commercial Planning (CPS & Promotions)

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• Build and manage CPS forecasts with detailed breakout by SKU across launches and promotional moments
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• Ensure alignment between commercial plans, inventory allocation, and expected sell-through
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• Support pricing, promotional, and sell-in strategies with data-backed recommendations
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Event & Visual Week Performance

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• Set and track door-level sales goals for events and Visual Weeks
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• Partner with Regional Directors to align on execution plans and performance targets
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• Allocate POS and collateral to support strong in-store activation
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• Recap performance with clear insights and recommendations to improve future activations
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Own Order Flow & Shipping Execution

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• Manage the full order lifecycle including review, release, and follow-up on open orders
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• Maintain visibility and accuracy of order-on-hand and in-season flow
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• Track receipts vs. forecast and proactively flag risks or gaps
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• Partner with Demand Planning and Logistics to manage in-season flow and execution
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• Execute POS ordering to support retail needs
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Manage Inventory & Product Lifecycle

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• Partner with Demand Planning to forecast inventory for launches and core SKUs
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• Proactively communicate out-of-stocks and risks to internal teams and retail partners
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• Own product lifecycle management, including discontinuations, transitions, and clean-up strategies
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• Support stock optimization through reallocations, swaps, and assortment rationalization
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We’d love to meet you if you have:

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• Bachelor’s degree (preferred)
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• 3-5 years’ work experience in sales, planning
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• Proficient in Microsoft Office, most notably, Excel and PowerPoint
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• Strong math and analytical skills
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• Experience with major department stores, retailers, or vendor partners (a plus).
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• Superb verbal and written communication skills, including developing and delivering presentations
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• Able to influence and gain buy-in by building trustworthy relationships with integrity
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• Experience with SAP, G2N, Cube, BW, and retailer portals (preferred)
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Compensation:

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As required by New York State’s salary transparency law, effective November 2022, the expected base salary for this position ranges from $80,000.00 - $85,000.00. Various factors are considered when extending offers, such as relevant skillset, training, years of experience related to the current job description, education, and our organizational structure. In addition to the base salary, PUIG offers a competitive benefits package that includes health and dental insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, 401K, paid holidays, a generous paid time-off policy, hybrid work environment, and career opportunities within a dynamic team.

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EEOC:

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Puig is an equal opportunity employer, and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, ethnicity, age, disability, marital status, veteran status, or any other characteristic protected by law.

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Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Commitment:

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At Puig, we are continually looking for enthusiastic and committed individuals from a broad range of backgrounds and experiences to join our team. We believe that creating an inclusive environment in which you feel welcomed, valued, engaged, and empowered strengthens our business and fosters a culture where we are inspired to work hard, challenge ourselves, and be innovative in our thinking. Additionally, we believe that the diversity of our employees makes us a stronger company and better able to serve our customers around the world.

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About Puig:

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Puig creates unique and highly desirable beauty and fashion brands that empower people to reinforce their self-esteem and find their own expression in a family-owned company that aims to leave a better world for the next generation.

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Our brand portfolio is structured in three divisions: Beauty and Fashion, with the owned brands Carolina Herrera, Nina Ricci, Paco Rabanne, Jean Paul Gaultier, Dries Van Noten, Penhaligon’s, Byredo, Dr. Barbara Sturm, and L’Artisan Parfumeur; the licenses of Christian Louboutin and Comme des Garçons perfumes; and Lifestyle fragrances, among them Adolfo Dominguez, Antonio Banderas, Shakira, and Benetton. The Charlotte Tilbury division, which includes the luxury makeup brand and the Derma division, with the Apivita, Uriage and Isdin brands. We sell products in 150 countries and operate 26 subsidiaries.

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At Puig we honor the values and principles put in place by three generations of family leadership. Today we continue to build on that legacy, through conscious commitments in our ESG agenda (environmental, social, and governance) aligned with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.