management
Posted May 8Head of Merchandise Planning
at Ooon
Portland, United StatesOn-site
Responsibilities
- Drive and align the regional planning process, translating the global product vision and commercial objectives into a comprehensive, data-backed financial and unit-level plan across wholesale and DTC channels
- Lead the team in complex and detailed financial forecasting, long-range planning, ensuring fiscal responsibility and anticipating potential risks and trade-offs
- Cultivate effective, collaborative relationships across a wide network of peers and leaders in Global Planning, Merchandising, Sales, and Finance to ensure all plans align with On's broader strategic priorities
- Break down complexity and create cohesiveness and alignment for the planning team, empowering them to deliver strategic value and hold them accountable for their outcomes
- Champion innovation within the planning domain, continuously seeking to improve processes and system integration (e.g., Anaplan, D365, BI platforms) to enhance accuracy, speed, and efficiency Your Story
Requirements
- experience in merchandise planning, demand planning, or a related commercial finance role, ideally at a premium or performance-oriented global retailer
- A master of informed decision-making, you make sound choices even with limited information, relying on a combination of analysis, experience, and judgment, and know when a swift solution is sufficient
- experience in a fast-paced, matrixed organization, successfully balancing the need to optimize team performance with the contribution to cross-functional and organizational priorities Your Team
Experience
- You bring 9+ years of progressive functional
- You have 4+ years of direct people leadership experience, leading teams across multiple functions, and highlighting team scale and business unit or regional breadth
Benefits
- You will join the Americas Merchandising team, acting as trusted advisors in setting the vision and direction for product for the region.
Additional details
- As the Head of Merchandise Planning, Americas, you will chart the course and set the strategic direction for all financial and product planning across the region.
- This role requires simplifying complexity to drive profitable growth, ensuring seamless alignment between global strategies and local execution across all channels.
- You will champion a culture of data-informed decision-making, operational excellence, and accountability, acting as a crucial leader for the Merchandising function.
- Reporting to the Director of Merchandising, you will lead a high-performing and growing planning team to optimize assortment efficiency and support On's overall strategic priorities. Your Mission
- Set the strategic direction for the Americas Merchandise Planning function, defining goals, structures, and processes to drive target growth, successful sell-in’s, inventory health, and assortment productivity
- Provide clear, simplified narratives and compelling recommendations to senior leaders and executive teams, facilitating informed decision-making even when information is limited or contradictory
- Skilled at strategic alignment, you consistently map out and organize work to break down priorities into realistic projects and structures that incorporate necessary checks and balances
- You are adept at synthesizing people and interests, anticipating and integrating the concerns of various teams and stakeholders to align outputs with diverse interests and needs You have deep
- The team acts as a bridge between our Global Product/Commercial teams and regional business leaders.
- Our cross-functional interaction is driven by a market-relevant, consumer-focused mindset touching on all departments inside our organization to set a commercial plan and identify profitable growth and act on sales opportunities and actions together.