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Business Planning Manager - 12 Months
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Company Description
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
An opportunity for a 12-month maternity cover position to work as a manager in the Business Planning team, you will be responsible for the forecasting of key KPIs across the brand’s DTC EMEA & LATAM e-commerce business. With an intuitive grasp of numbers, and an appreciation of workings in a dynamic omni-channel brand, you will have knowledge of the e-commerce strategic cycles. The role is varied and will include analysis, planning, reporting and presenting to multiple stakeholders in the business.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
- Responsible for e-commerce revenue forecasting process from daily to annual levels
- Good understanding of ecommerce KPI relationships with the ability to plan; Sales & GM, Traffic & Conversion, AOV & AUR, Return rates, Discount rates
- Daily demand forecasting for fulfilment of order, unit and return volumes
- Analyse and challenge the country and marketing performance. Probe areas of concern and identify paths to improvement. Make high level commercial suggestions and interpret trends and strategy into the forecast
- Assemble and analyse data impacting the sales forecast (e.g. historical sales, Traffic trends, market trends, marketing channel mix and promotions). Have a thorough understanding of seasonal and marketing variations in trade throughout the year e.g. capsule drops, end of sale, cyber weekend
- Manage and support new projects, initiatives and developments to gain an understanding of their impact on the business
- Proactively identifying opportunities where analytics can benefit the business
- Ability to move beyond analytical reporting and bring figures to life descriptively. Engage key stakeholders, identify relevant insights, and create meaningful actions from data
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
- Excellent problem solving, analytical and numerical skills
- Excellent communication and influencing skills
- Ability to analyse and review large amounts of data in Excel, advanced level Excel essential
- Motivated and driven, quick learner
- Hybrid and flexible working. Minimum 2 days working in our London office
- Life assurance (x4 base salary)
- Private Healthcare (Vitality) – offers additional benefits such as 50% off gym membership, discount on apple watches, free cinema tickets and Starbucks
- Permanent Health insurance
- Medicash scheme
- Employee Assistance Programme
- Season ticket loan
- 25 days holiday + bank holidays
- Your birthday off
- Staff discount – 40% off in Factory outlet stores, 50% off in Full price and online stores.
