Assortment Planner – Interim 12-month contract
In this role, you will be responsible for maximizing the commercial value of our assortment and driving like-for-like (LFL) growth across collections. You will support the creation of a robust collection architecture, contribute to financial planning and sell-out forecasting, and assist in delivering our Range Framework initiatives. Working closely with both global and local merchandising teams, you will help ensure seamless hand-offs and alignment. You will also play a key role in the cross-functional product development process, providing valuable input from an assortment strategy architecture, and collection financials perspective.
Key Responsibilities
- Support in building the bottom-up assortment architecture & financial planning to meet top-down financial targets for the collections in scope.
- Deliver sell-out forecast across all milestones to inform collection financial targets, S&OP and planning & allocation.
- Facilitate product lifecycle management to maximize the assortment, from creation to exit.
- Work in collaboration with global and local merchandising teams to facilitate local execution and maximizing commercial opportunities.
- Support in adhering to collection article frame (count) and collection financials.
- Support execution of Range Framework initiatives, own tools to be handover to local merchandising teams, inventory and allocation.
- Preparing key merchandising deliverables for NPD (New Product Development) process, prepare and support modelling for annual planning and key product development milestones.
- Support cross-functional collaboration with Design and GBU teams to create impactful newness assortment that maximizes commercial value, through providing data-driven performance insights that inform assortment decisions.
- Reading global weekly/monthly/quarterly trade results, prepare deep-dive analyses and post-mortems, while connecting to future risk & opportunities to identify commercial actions & future product opportunities.
Your Skills & Background
- 3 - 5 years of solid experience working within Product Merchandising, Demand planning, Buying, Allocation ideally from retail or fashion industry
- Strategic and analytical thinking: ability to analyze market trends, customer behaviour, and performance data to inform merchandising decisions and align them with broader business goals
Attention to detail: ability to work with high level of precision and accuracy within data maintenance and performance analysis tasks - Top-down communication: ability to structure, simplify and effectively communicate performance insights & analyses to various stakeholders with confidence
- Influence and collaboration: Strong stakeholder management and negotiation kills, ability to collaborate & influence cross-functionally
- Commercial-driven mindset: laser focus on creating commercial value through identifying and executing commercial opportunities that maximize collection LfL growth
- Adaptability & innovation: ability to adapt quickly to rapidly changing market & organizational conditions, perform under ambiguity while fostering creativity and innovation.
- Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, Buying and Forecasting software, PLM program
Did we get your attention?
We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com.
Icing on the cake
Pandora is the world’s largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.
Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.
Recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Best Workplaces and ranked #1 among Danish companies, Pandora is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe reflecting the diversity of society in how we engage with our customers is essential to fulfilling our purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We are dedicated to nurturing a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive.