Planner

Company Description

From 1946, people of the House of Parfums Christian Dior in France and around the world embody the spirit of excellence, creativity, and the unique savoir-faire of its creator, the couturier-perfumer Christian Dior. Revolutionizing the codes of French elegance and luxury with its perfumes, combining tradition and daring innovation in makeup and skincare, we reinvent every day the Dior style and affirm beauty and joy in its entirety.

Parfums Christian Dior invites you today to join its North America teams.

Parfums Christian Dior is part of the LVMH Group.

Job Description

Responsible for managing day-to-day sell-in activities within respective assigned accounts. This includes day-to-day stock and order management, as well as supporting the development of annual sales plans and allocations.

Principal Duties and Responsibilities:

• Act as key point of contact between retailer buyers and planners for B&M and E-Commerce. 
• Build strong relationship with each retailer point of contact in order to build a seamless partnership with Dior.
• Provide sales forecasting on a regular basis following the animation/promotional activities as outlined by the retailers and the National Account Director and field-negotiated events.
• Develop and manage Buying Plan for Retailers: seasonally provide by sku detailed buying plans to each retailer all divisions and update with changes as they occur and communicate back to retailer including pricing, sku characteristics, etc.
• New/Discontinued SKU management: set up new skus for retailers using appropriate forms, including seasonal timeframe for return.
• Negotiate returns by sku based on National Account Director feedback.
• Seasonal Marketing plans: manage TOA calendar based on seasonal strategies, provide to marketing, follow up with marketing, write all by store, submit all to customer service, follow up on shipping.
• Maintain seasonal promotional calendar and be able to speak and plan for promotional shifts by retailer and Dior.
• Maintain Co-op budget.
• Ensure marketing sends appropriate comps monthly for social/print advertising.
• Seasonally complete CWR for visual weeks and co-op programming as negotiated by National Account Director.
• Forecasting: provide marketing opening order recommendations for all new skus and seasonal items.

 Inventory Management

• Follow and manage the ship in and returns budget as outlined by Director of Sales Administration.
• Manage daily orders, which includes review and record of any new purchase orders.
• Communicate any changes required (dates/prices/allocations) to retailer planner and any actions to be taken by Customer service.
• Launch orders: follow up with planning team to ensure that inventory is in the warehouse and available to ship for said retailers managing cuts and rebooks based on appropriate timing/availability.
• Monitor & Track for all pillars & divisions: Newness/core shipments and returns and provide up to date forecasts to National Account Director/Director of Sales Administration, and Finance.
• Allocations: all launch orders and no charge promotional orders to be written based on agreed to philosophy with National Account Director/Merchandising Director and processed. 
• Write Quarterly tester allocation as requested by door by AE by account.
• Monitor daily cut reports and work with retailers to replace cut dollars.

Service and Communication with Sales Force

• Communicate weekly to the field on all launches, marketing, merchandising, shipping details, etc.
• Field: answer any shipping, marketing, and retailer-related questions.
• Maintain all summaries of the following:  space and location, beauty merchandising designation, opening dates, promotional changes, and event results.

Qualifications

• 5 years of experience with planning and execution of retail events and programs to drive sell-through and sell-in; Prior Retailer experience preferred
• Strong understanding and knowledge of leading beauty and fragrance brands
• Strong understanding of operating practices of key Department Store and Specialty retailers
• Knowledge of excel, BIS, PowerBI, and AX considered an asset
• Strong relationship building skills
• Heightened sense of urgency
• Deadline oriented, strong organizational skills
• Strong understanding of merchandising to sales
• Knowledge of and passion for Dior brand

Travel required per business needs

Additional Information

All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.

LVMH Inc. uses the published salary range as a guideline to provide our employees with market competitive pay while allowing for flexibility to recognize and reward various levels of expertise, performance and tenure.

While the published salary range is a good faith reflection of the targeted salary level for the position, LVMH Inc. reserves the right to pay outside of the published salary range of $83-112k.