Senior Associate, Planning

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles.

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**Job Title**:Senior Associate, Planning
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**Primary Purpose**: To manage sales and inventory forecasting for our Direct Specialty and Outlet businesses.

**The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in Planning**to...**
- Create annual monthly sales and inventory plans by store and by department which tie to the annual operating plan
- Own department and class level open-to-buys, identifying risks and opportunities to achieve sales plans
- Manage inventory purchases, during seasonal market and in-season chases, to achieve monthly and annual turn targets
- Manage style & SKU level planning for replenishment programs
- Work closely with buying team to manage product assortment strategies by location
- Partner with cross functional teams and Finance to manage monthly sales, margin and KPI forecast submissions
- Manage store level sales and KPI forecasts to achieve topline sale plans
- Develop, maintain and update weekly and monthly reporting templates/tools
- Analyze weekly and monthly business performance, by category and style level, to identify risks and opportunities
- Manage promotional calendar with cross functional teams, to ensure sales goals are achieved
- Manage and communicate seasonal markdowns, understanding impact to sales and margin

**The accomplished individual will possess...**
- Bachelor's Degree preferred
- Minimum 2 years merchandise planning experience; 4-6 years of total work experience
- Superior computer skills & overall systems savvy with advanced knowledge of Excel
- Functioning knowledge of planning & reporting systems
- Product and merchandising sensibility
- Excellent team working skills with ability to manage cross-functional relationships across multiple levels
- Excellent retail math and analytical skills
- Flexible and resourceful with ability to work well independently

**Our Competencies for All Employees**
- **Courage**: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
- **Creativity**: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
- **Customer Focus**: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
- **Dealing with Ambiguity**: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
- **Drive for Results**: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
- **Interpersonal Savvy**: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
- **Learning on the Fly**: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.

**Our Competencies for All People Managers**
- **Strategic Agility**: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and