Senior Manager, Planning

Since its launch in 1993 with a collection of six essential handbags, Kate Spade New York has always been colorful, bold, and optimistic. Today, it is a global lifestyle brand that designs extraordinary things for the everyday, delivering seasonal collections of handbags, ready-to-wear, jewelry, footwear, home décor, and more. Known for its rich heritage and unique brand DNA, Kate Spade New York offers a distinctive point of view and celebrates communities of women around the globe who live their perfectly imperfect lifestyles. 

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Job Title: Planning Senior Manager

Primary Purpose: Lead strategic planning and forecasting for sales, margin, and inventory across full-price stores and e-commerce channels. Drive growth by leveraging advanced analytics, mitigating risk, and influencing cross-functional decisions to achieve financial objectives.

The successful individual will leverage their proficiency in planning to…

· Own financial planning and forecasting: Lead monthly sales, margin, and inventory re-forecasting by category and channel, identifying risks and opportunities to deliver business goals.

· Provide strategic insights: Analyze historical trends and business drivers to inform decision-making, partnering with leadership to implement actionable strategies.

· Lead seasonal investment planning: Oversee budget development in collaboration with Buying and Global Planning, ensuring alignment with category and channel strategies.

· Optimize profitability: Approve seasonal markdowns and promotional strategies to achieve sales and margin targets while maintaining brand integrity.

· Influence cross-functional initiatives: Partner with Buying, Store Operations, and Wholesale teams to optimize inventory flow and maximize sales potential.

· Deliver executive-level reporting: Manage weekly business reporting and present quantitative and qualitative insights during reviews, hindsight analyses, and investment discussions.

· Drive process improvement: Continuously enhance planning tools, systems, and processes to improve efficiency, accuracy, and scalability.

· Lead ad-hoc analysis: Provide clear, actionable recommendations based on data-driven insights to support evolving business needs.

Leadership Expectations:

· Lead and develop a high-performing team: Provide coaching, mentorship, and career development to planning associates, fostering a culture of accountability and continuous improvement.

· Influence senior stakeholders: Communicate complex insights clearly and persuasively to leadership, driving alignment on strategic priorities.

· Champion cross-functional collaboration: Act as a key liaison between Planning, Buying, Store teams and operations to ensure cohesive execution of business strategies.

· Drive organizational change: Lead initiatives that enhance planning capabilities, streamline processes, and support long-term growth objectives.

The accomplished individual will possess…

· 7+ years of planning experience in a vertical retail or multi-channel organization, with demonstrated leadership in financial planning and inventory management.

· Strategic mindset with strong analytical skills, capable of synthesizing complex data into actionable insights.

· Exceptional communication and influencing skills, with experience presenting to senior leadership.

· Advanced proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, vlookup, sumif) and familiarity with planning systems.

· Strong organizational and time management skills, with the ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.

An outstanding professional will have…

· Experience using a planning system, with an aptitude to quickly learn system functionality.

· Ability to manage working in fast-paced environment.

Our Competencies for All Employees
Courage: Doesn’t hold back anything that needs to be said; provides current, direct, complete, and “actionable” positive and corrective feedback to others; lets people know where they stand; faces up to people problems on any person or situation (not including direct reports) quickly and directly; is not afraid to take negative action when necessary.
Creativity: Comes up with a lot of new and unique ideas; easily makes connections among previously unrelated notions; tends to be seen as original and value-added in brainstorming settings.
Customer Focus: Is dedicated to meeting the expectations and requirements of internal and external customers; gets first-hand customer information and uses it for improvements in products and services; acts with customers in mind; establishes and maintains effective relationships with customers and gains their trust and respect.
Dealing with Ambiguity: Can effectively cope with change; can shift gears comfortably; can decide and act without having the total picture; isn’t upset when things are up in the air; doesn’t have to finish things before moving on; can comfortably handle risk and uncertainty.
Drive for Results: Can be counted on to exceed goals successfully; is constantly and consistently one of the top performers; very bottom-line oriented; steadfastly pushes self and others for results.
Interpersonal Savvy: Relates well to all kinds of people, up, down, and sideways, inside and outside the organization; builds appropriate rapport; builds constructive and effective relationships; uses diplomacy and tact; can diffuse even high-tension situations comfortably.
Learning on the Fly: Learns quickly when facing new problems; a relentless and versatile learner; open to change; analyzes both successes and failures for clues to improvement; experiments and will try anything to find solutions; enjoys the challenge of unfamiliar tasks; quickly grasps the essence and the underlying structure of anything.
 
Our Competencies for All People Managers
Strategic Agility: Sees ahead clearly; can anticipate future consequences and trends accurately; has broad knowledge and perspective; is future oriented; can articulately paint credible pictures and visions of possibilities and likelihoods; can create competitive and breakthrough strategies and plans.
Developing Direct Reports and Others: Provides challenging and stretching tasks and assignments; holds frequent development discussions; is aware of each person's career goals; constructs compelling development plans and executes them; pushes people to accept developmental moves; will take on those who need help and further development; cooperates with the developmental system in the organization; is a people builder.
Building Effective Teams: Blends people into teams when needed; creates strong morale and spirit in their team; shares wins and successes; fosters open dialogue; lets people finish and be responsible for their work; defines success in terms of the whole team; creates a feeling of belonging in the team.                                                                                                    
 

Kate Spade. is an equal opportunity and affirmative action employer and we pride ourselves on hiring and developing the best people. All employment decisions (including recruitment, hiring, promotion, compensation, transfer, training, discipline and termination) are based on the applicant’s or employee’s qualifications as they relate to the requirements of the position under consideration. These decisions are made without regard to age, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, genetic characteristics, race, color, creed, religion, ethnicity, national origin, alienage, citizenship, disability, marital status, military status, pregnancy, or any other legally-recognized protected basis prohibited by applicable law.

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