Director, GTM Planning & Analytics - Remote
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Director, Footwear Merchandise Planning
Brooks Running
full-time
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Origin: • 🇺🇸 United States • Washington
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💰 $165,928 - $265,505 per year
Job Level
Lead
Tech Stack
Go
About the role
- Your Job: The mission of the Merchandise Planning Team is to optimize product sales and profit across categories and channels to deliver on the company’s strategy, targets, and objectives.
- As the Director, Merchandising Planning, you will lead the product creation planning process and the merchandise financial plan for our global footwear business. You will be accountable for meeting 5-year Footwear business targets through forecasting, short and long-term go in margin strategy, pricing strategy, and product performance efficiency through partnering with cross-functional teams and utilizing market analytics.
- As the leader of product creation planning process, you will drive extreme enterprise accountability and will play a significant role in Brooks’ overall profitability. To do this effectively, you must be a confident and flexible leader of interdisciplinary, global teams where collaboration is imperative. You have an approach and point of view that starts and ends with the runner. You leverage product and business scenario planning to create and nurture a cohesive and aligned product direction that elevates and drives the impact of our product line to meet the company’s business objectives.
- You will support, motivate, and influence a global footwear team spanning multiple time zones and cultures. You will lead the Merchandise Planning team responsible costing and planning, forecasting and planning and market analytics to optimize our product calendar, expedite time to market and ensure alignment with enterprise growth objectives.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree (B. A. or B.S.) from a four-year University preferred, preferably in Finance, Industrial or Manufacturing Engineering, Business Management, Finance/Accounting, or equivalent. M.B.A. preferred, but not required. Equivalent years of experience can be considered in lieu of degree(s).
- 10+ years of experience in strategic planning, business forecasting, market research, or an equivalent field.
- 10+ years of related experience in footwear development, engineering, and manufacturing.
- 9+ years of experience in directing, managing, and developing high-performing teams.
- Proven leadership capabilities to supervise a team and lead strategic business objectives with a proven ability to prioritize workload and manage short-term and long-range projects.
- Demonstrated strong financial and business acumen; ability to form and make recommendations and forecasts for future business prospects.
- Demonstrated ability to develop highly productive relationships with individuals and teams that are made up of diverse disciplines and cultural backgrounds resulting in effective working relationships across the company.
- Curious and open-minded; always up for a challenge, inventive and creative. Ability to challenge the status quo- always looking at improving our people, products, and processes while also displaying a willingness to dive into the details.
- Detail-oriented. Strong organizational and time management skills are a must.
- Strong problem-solving skills with the ability to work in a fast-paced, changing environment, anticipating and resolving problems in a timely manner.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills, with an advanced ability to communicate a point of view concisely and functional expertise within project teams and to external stakeholders. Strong storytelling, presentation, and communication skills, including meeting facilitation.
- Expert in MS Word, Excel, Outlook, and PowerPoint, and other relevant analytical tools
- Fluent in English (written and spoken); Mandarin is a plus.
- Embraces and lives the Brooks values!
