What are the responsibilities and job description for the Consumer Planner NA - Converse position at Converse?
Become part of the Converse Team
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Converse is a place to explore potential, break barriers and push out the edges of what can be. The company looks for people who can grow, think, dream and create. Its culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. The brand seeks achievers, leaders and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing skills and passion to a challenging and constantly evolving world to make things better as a team.
Who Converse represents is who Converse hires. If you're one-of-a-kind, you should try us on.
ABOUT OUR TEAM
The Converse Consumer Planning team unleashes the power of information and data to forecast, predict, and obsess our consumer demand. These insights drive decisions and integrated plans that help to ensure our consumer has access to the products they want, when they want them, and how they want to get them.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will report to the Director of Consumer Planning. This role is heavily collaborative, working with many cross-functional teams such as direct, wholesale, merchandising, finance, and global planning.
WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR
We’re looking for a Consumer Planner to join the Converse North America Consumer Planning team. This data-minded individual will drive efforts to forecast and predict our consumer demand, partner with channel planning teams to create product, marketplace, and inventory plans, deliver data solutions that drive clarity to our results and plans, and partner with the analytics teams to drive enterprise data strategies that service our business needs.
This individual plays a strategic role acting as a liaison between Channels (Digital, Wholesale, Stores), Finance, and Merchandising to drive alignment and generate a Demand Plan driven by Integrated Business Planning processes. The role requires someone who can be agile, roll-up their sleeves, and is excited by the challenge of building something from the ground up. You have a passion for data and can identify trends and synthesize demand signals to develop accurate demand plans. You ask questions, are continually learning, and are finding opportunities to share knowledge with others.
You Bring :
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent combination of education, experience or training
- 2 years in merchandise planning, demand planning or business planning
- An understanding of key business tradeoffs with experience in the Retail or Wholesale industries a plus
- Strong analytical, financial modeling, and problem-solving skills
- Proven ability to prioritize and manage multiple projects at once
- Self-starter with the skills to manage through ambiguity in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent communication skills with the ability to communicate and influence across diverse audiences
WHAT YOU WILL WORK ON
You will work alongside business partners to unlock the power of quantitative and qualitative data to drive Converse forward towards an integrated planning process. To do this, you will :
We are committed to fostering a diverse and inclusive environment for all employees and job applicants. We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. If you discover, as you navigate our application process, that you need assistance or an accommodation due to a disability, please complete the Candidate Accommodation Request Form .
Converse is more than a company; it’s a worldwide advocate for self-expression. This belief motivates our employees, permeates our working environment and inspires our products. No two of us look or think exactly alike. We are each one-of-a-kind. Individually and as a culture, we have the freedom to create and grow professionally. Generous benefits packages only sweeten the experience. From Boston to Shanghai, from Brand Design to Finance, Converse is a brand that celebrates the unique and creative people of the world. Together, we’re different.
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