Planner

Planner

At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities. This role will drive all planning activities for Full Price stores and Digital in Americas region within Burberry's Merchandising & Planning organisation. They will embody the Burberry values and contribute to a culture of innovation and collaboration. The role drives planning accuracy, commercial insight, and in season agility to ensure that the Americas region optimises inventory performance and delivers strong financial outcomes. They will be responsible for:

• Creating, updating and managing the Rolling Open to Buy and Collection Open to Buy process
• Aligning, partnering and collaborating with the Merchandising, Allocation, Regional Finance and Central Planning teams on Open to Buy, product lifecycle, fiscal risks, opportunities, markdown and inventory management
• Commercial insights in driving in-season decisions to maximise inventory, drive sales, and deliver sell through and margin targets
• Driving detailed Carry Forward sales and inventory forecasts and input to Replenishment forecasts, to maintain appropriate inventory levels and availability

Responsibilities include owning and managing the Rolling Open to Buy by season by product hierarchy level (Full Price/Markdown), developing and managing the Collection Open to Buy for sales and inventory (New, Carry Forward, and Replenishment) ahead of each Collection, communicating the Collection and Rolling Open to Buys to Regional and Central teams, supporting in the review of Collection buys with Merchandising, focusing on key investments and ensuring buys are within agreed budgets and achieve key KPIs, proposing and executing actions to drive the business and manage inventory alongside Merchandising, including but not limited to top-up orders, cancellations, stock rebalance, drops to Outlet, adjustments to ranging and min/max, etc.

The personal profile includes a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent training and experience, 5+ years' experience, with at least 2 years in regional planning role, demonstrated experience across all activities of commercial planning, including Open to Buy, reforecasting and inventory management, adaptable, proactive, commercially curious, and able to navigate ambiguity, well-developed communication skills, with the ability to build positive working relationships with cross-functional teams, exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills, and proficiency with planning systems preferred.

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.