Are you keen to support the LEGO Group to deliver outstanding and significant retail service coverage?
The Retail Planning Manager supports multiple facets of the planning process for the LEGO Retail business. This position requires collaboration with many collaborators and cross functional teams across the LEGO Group to develop and maintain flow of goods plans for each Brand Retail store and Shop at Home division. The flow plans are crafted to support the strategic financial plans focusing on inventory management and other critical metrics (sales, turn, gross margin). Through analysis and scenario planning the Retail Planner contributes valuable insights into the S&OP process.
Are you passionate about Retail planning and analysis:
- Understand and translate business needs into flow plans that encompass sales, receipts, inventory, and turns
- Collaborate with Merchandising, Marketing, Store Operations, and Finance to develop plans by channel, theme, and store for weekly, monthly, and annual plans
- Partner with the Forecast Manager to deliver a demand plan outlining risks and assumptions that facilitate discussion and consensus in the LEGO Retail S&OP process and proactively ensure alignment of changes to be consistent with updated plans
- Monitor weekly business performance, investigate deviations and re-project based on trends
Play your part in our global success!
The Retail Planning is a team within the LEGO Retail Operations and Merchandising department. We are a global team with members based in London, Boston, Billund, Singapore and Shanghai. We are a dynamic team, still in forming phase and our current process is still to be fine-tuned as we learn and grow as a team. The team consists of highly skilled people that are committed to deliver high performance and have fun while doing so.
We build an environment for collaborative business decision-making especially passionate about demand and sales planning, whilst also driving Sales & Operations Planning (S&OP). The Retail Planner position provides exposure to a wide variety of business departments and exposure to senior collaborators. You will use your analytical and forecasting ability to make recommendations to aid decision making which has a real impact on future business performance. Be part of a team that is still developing and play a role in defining our future ways of working in a global setup!
Do you have what it takes:
- Demand Planning or Supply Chain experience desirable
- Previous retail experience desirable
- Previous finance experience desirable
- Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience
- Proficiency in Microsoft Office, advanced excel (POWER BI)
- Ideally experience working with statistical forecast models
- Preferable O9 experience or any planning system
- Night calls required 3 to 4 times a month
Applications are reviewed on an ongoing basis. However, please note we do amend or withdraw our jobs and reserve the right to do so at any time, including prior to any advertised closing date. So, if you're interested in this role we encourage you to apply as soon as possible.
What’s in it for you?
Here is what you can expect:
Family Care Leave - We offer enhanced paid leave options for those important times.
Insurances – All colleagues are covered by our life and disability insurance which provides protection and peace of mind.
Wellbeing - We want our people to feel well and thrive. We offer resources and benefits to nurture physical and mental wellbeing along with opportunities to build community and inspire creativity.
Colleague Discount – We know you'll love to build, so from day 1 you will qualify for our generous colleague discount.
Workplace - When you join the team you'll be assigned a primary workplace location i.e. one of our Offices, stores or factories. Our hybrid work policy means an average of 3 days per week in the office.
The hiring team will discuss the policy and role eligibility with you during the recruitment process.
Children are our role models. Their curiosity, creativity and imagination inspire everything we do. We strive to create a diverse, dynamic and inclusive culture of play at the LEGO Group, where everyone feels safe, valued and they belong.
The LEGO Group is highly committed to equal employment opportunity and equal pay and seeks to encourage applicants from all backgrounds (eg. sex, gender identity or expression, race/ethnicity, national origin, sexual orientation, disability, age and religion) to apply for roles in our team.
Research shows that women and people from different underrepresented backgrounds often only apply for a job if they meet 100% of the listed qualifications. For all candidates, if you dream of being a part of our team and you meet many, but not all of our listed qualifications for this role, please apply.
The LEGO Group is fully committed to Children’s Rights and Child Wellbeing across the globe. Candidates offered positions with high engagement with children are required to take part in Child Safeguarding Background Screening, as a condition of the offer.
Thank you for sharing our global commitment to Children’s Rights.
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Apply today via our LEGO Careers Portal at: https://www.lego.com/en-sg/careers/job/retail-planning-manager-8-month-contract-6b63bc412a2b100092ed0746b1990000
