Global Consumer Planner, Converse

ABOUT CONVERSE

Are you interested in working for the most iconic and well-loved sneaker brand in the world? Born in sports and made for the street, Converse is a place to explore your potential, obliterate boundaries and push out the edges of what can be. We seek people who can lead, grow, think, dream, and create. Our culture thrives by embracing diversity and rewarding imagination. Converse seeks achievers, leaders, and visionaries. At Converse, it’s about each person bringing their authentic self, skills, and passion to serve the daring spirit of youth.

ABOUT OUR TEAM

The Converse Global Consumer Planning team unleashes the power of an engaged planning community; utilizing information and data to forecast, predict, and obsess our consumer demand. These insights drive integrated target setting, enabling strategic decision making to help to ensure our consumer has access to the products they want, when they want them, and where they want to get them.

WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH

You will report to the Director of Global Consumer Planning. This role is heavily collaborative, working with many cross-functional teams such as Regional Planners, Analytics, Global Product/Consumer Merchandising, Global Finance, and Inventory/Supply planning.

WHO WE ARE LOOKING FOR

We’re looking for a Consumer Planning Analyst to join the Converse Global Consumer Planning team. This data minded individual will drive efforts to forecast and predict our consumer demand, partner with regional planning teams to create product, marketplace, and inventory plans, deliver data solutions that drive clarity to our results and partner with the analytics to drive enterprise data strategies that service our business needs.

This individual plays a strategic role acting as a liaison between Global Consumer Merchandising, Regional Planning and Global Finance 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

• Influencing skill development and ability to story-tell data, across a diverse range of audiences

• Experiencing in data visualization, pulling a thread across strategy, insights and intuition

• Comfort in highly collaborative, cross-functional working environments

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:

• Provide information, analysis, and recommendations to drive planning decisions during all phases of seasonal product creation (long range through end of season)

• Consolidate demand by channel and identify and resolve gaps between financial targets & demand plan

• Provide information, analysis, and recommendations to drive Line Planning decisions during all phases of seasonal product creation, enabling assortment planning

• Leverage marketplace and assortment insight to influence early stages of the seasonal product creation process to maximize future season opportunities

• Support the building of franchise and family level forecasts using seasonal line plans, historical information and insights gained from partners Consolidate demand by geo and reconcile gaps between consumer demand, financial targets and Seasonal line plans.

• Bring together strategies across Demand Planning, Inventory Management, Operations and Finance to ensure the connectivity

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.