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Business Planner 12 month FTC
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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 exciting new position (12 month FTC) within the direct-to-consumer business planning team for EMEA. The role is varied and will include analysis, performance reporting & presentations across our full price retail stores outlet stores & digital commerce business. Reporting directly to the DTC Business Planning Lead, this position will suit a highly numerate & commercial person, interested in business strategy and seeing the ‘bigger picture’.
Please note this is a hybrid role spending at least 2 days a week between our offices in Watford & central London.
Essential Duties & Responsibilities
· Deep analysis on the DTC ecosystem, including cross channel & regional performance trends, hospitality impact, external traffic patterns & key metric relationships
· Executive level presentations, covering ad-hoc requests, strategic insights & recurring performance overviews
· Develop reporting suite for digital outlet in partnership with BI & digital team
· Support channel planning managers with ad-hoc analysis, monthly forecast & annual budget process and provide additional coverage on regular daily & weekly performance reporting where required
· Collate omnichannel trade headlines in peak trading moments
· Trading calendar management, logging key trading activity & year on year date shifts, both cross channel and channel specific, and impact to trade for future planning
· Partner cross functionally to build relationships, align on analysis findings & recommend trading opportunities
· Suggest process & reporting improvements for greater synergy across channels
· Provide relevant insights on wider retail trading environment, including collation of landlord & competitor information
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
· 3 full strategic cycles of experience in retail merchandising, data or financial role
· Strong communication skills, able to package results into digestible and actionable messages
· Enthusiastic team player
· Ability to work under pressure and to respect deadlines
· Strong attention to detail, quality and accuracy imperative
· Data driven mindset & keenness to learn new tools & models
· Advanced Excel skills to process & interpret data
· Thorough understanding & application of retail maths & KPIs
