Manager Store Planning Job Description
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Manager Store Planning Job Description
- Extensive knowledge of MS Office Suite, including MS Project
- Build and support a collaborative and innovative environment with direct reports, peers and cross functional team encouraging best practices, consistency and project prioritization
- Maintain constant dialogue with vendors, accounts and directors
- Prepare Photoshop drawings and power point presentations CAD drawings for use in Schematic Design and Design Development for internal approvals and in communication of design to outside partners
- Act as a liaison for landlords, architects, and engineers to maintain an efficient and professional flow of information answering contractors’ field questions when requested by construction
- In season business management- Drives top line sales and productivity MMU
- Assesses requirements for scope of work and providing positive feedback potential roadblocks to appropriate stakeholders
- Adjust, sense-check and confirm the final output of each store format against brand and commercial objectives (product type, launch flow, marketing calendar, mandatory range, retail space, consumer journey)
- Liaise with PA to resolve all design issues of projects and manage the delivery of the design package within schedule for local drawing production
- Managing a preferred supplier list for third party suppliers and contractors to achieve a quality and cost effective service
- 5-7 years of meaningful experience in financial planning and evaluating capital expenditures in a corporate setting
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Economics, Accounting, or any related analytical discipline
- Must have 9+ years of experience in merchandise planning and allocation, including multi-store planning, distribution, and replenishment experience, preferably in specialty retail
- Buying or merchandising experience is a plus
- Must possess the ability to provide comprehensive analysis of category and assortment plans for sales, gross margins, inventory, and profit
- Must have excellent written and verbal communication skills to facilitate resolution of issues and to interact will all levels of employees
Manager Store Planning Job Description
- Liaise closely with landlords/agents to secure timely approval and access
- Work closely with brand design teams to ensure adherence to brand standards
- Perform channel level situation assessment to identify key long and short term strategic channel/customer commercialization opportunities
- Provide/facilitate feedback loop to Cat Comm teams to ensure translation and successful commercialization of brand strategies into channel/customer oriented initiatives and pilots
- Collaborate with Cat Comm & Equipment teams to develop scalable retail solutions to commercialize strategic brand initiatives and secure priority POI’s
- Develop customer facing imperatives and supporting Look of Success tools (Customer selling decks, LOS floor maps, etc) to assist in commercialization/sell-in of strategic brand initiatives and key Points of Inspiration
- Simultaneously manage multiple projects of various sizes and types at various stages of design and construction and make judgments on budget and scheduling in consideration with overall goals
- Attend landlord meetings in order to fully understand site conditions, fit-out requirements, local codes, building conditions, timelines, approvals
- Forecast, track and manage budget (targeting coming in under budget)
- Manage millwork deliveries in conjunction with procurement team
- Develop process and clear expectations for the management of store inventory plans
- Develop process to keep the team current on system knowledge, execution and performance
- Collaborate with the Merchandising team to achieve the store capacity targets, inventory productivity and profit parameters defined by the buying strategy
- Collaborate with the Regional Directors/District Managers to align store plans with insight regarding stores
- Collaboration with the Allocation team to ensure the most current Store plans for allocation execution and capacity management
- Coordinate with the Merchandise Planning & Assortment Planning teams to align store plans with both merchandise plans & assortment plans
Manager Store Planning Job Description
- Negotiate with each vendor/contractor to meet financial goals
- Conclude budgetary close-out of projects within acceptable time-frames
- Assist Store Operations in small maintenance projects, and provide technical support
- Work on ad-hoc projects as and when needed
- Coordinate production Operation and Maintenance manuals
- Collaborative and able to work across multiple discipline teams
- Understanding of CAD
- Knowledge of other European languages, ie in particular French or Italian
- Act as the Liaison between Real Estate, Internal legal counsel and landlords during lease negotiations regarding Lease Construction Exhibits and related scopes-of-work
- Coordinate Site Surveys, and related Building and Sign Code research to confirm requirements and allowances related to construction schedules and code requirements, and exterior building design limitations and opportunities
- Ability to influence across teams to gain consensus and achieve a common goal
- Analytic, problem solving and judgment skills
- Degree in Architecture, and 3 – 5 years of experience in retail design or high end/custom residential architecture/interior design
- Associates Degree or a Bachelor’s Degree from an accredited four-year college or university
- Minimum of 3 years’ experience managing a business or process
- Degree in Architecture or Interior Design, and 3 – 5 years of experience in retail design or high end/custom residential architecture/interior design
Manager Store Planning Job Description
- Interface with Marketing, Creative, Trade Marketing, and Sales to initiate merchandising project requests
- Manage the production of Architectural and Engineering drawings including preliminary designs, final Construction Document production and distribution, permitting, RFI resolutions and As-built archives
- Initiate and Manage the Exterior Storefront Signage program including design submittals and revisions, purchasing, permitting, variance submittals, and installation coordination
- In partnership with the department’s purchasing team, manage external Owner Supplied Items suppliers and service providers for all efforts on new store development and construction
- Manage the general contractor bid and selection process, contract documentation, change orders, pay applications, schedule management, quality standards, and all aspects of building new stores
- Be the point of contact with the Store Operations team to communicate each new store’s schedule status, site conditions, challenges and opportunities to insure that they are fully supported in opening each new store
- Manage such that all internal business partners’ efforts related to each new store, including Loss Prevention, Transportation, IT, Marketing, are in-line with each store’s schedule and any unique conditions that might affect their deliverables
- Properly and accurately close-out all financial aspects of each new store
- Obtain all required documents and Lien Wavers required for Tenant Allowances
- Attend weekly update meetings and provide updated status reports for all projects
- Must be proficient in relevant planning & allocation, replenishment, analytical, data management and financial systems
- Manages and facilitates the store development planning processes/procedures/templates within the affiliate to enhance store performance
- Receives the retail floor store design concept which accurately reflects the intended look and feel of the season’s release thereby generating sell-through of products
- Adapts and adopts appropriate layout plans/planograms for affiliate store openings and store upgrades prior to briefing the outsourced store construction and visual merchandising teams
- Drives consistent retail presentation and store navigation enhancements across all distribution channels in the affiliate
- Ensures store completeness prior to account turnover (products, VTA, Raymark)
Manager Store Planning Job Description
- Demonstrate strong long term vision and continual growth objective building skills
- Set annual priorities with measureable objectives which are achieved by holding team accountable for results
- Initiate and implement a competency definition and elevation strategy for team
- Ensure functional financial success through leading inventory, store and size management by working towards meeting or exceeding sales, gross margin, gross margin return on investment (GMROI), sell through and sell through by size
- Organize pre-season and in-season Allocation workload incorporating cross functional workload and deliverables over multiple quarters
- Identify, recommend and coordinate innovative strategies which ensure competitive success
- Understand implications of projects/processes and business impacts on people and workload
- Manage/support career development process of teams to ensure job satisfaction, talent retention and development
- Negotiate with cross functional teams on workload management which fulfill organizational strategies benefiting operational and financial business goals
- Provide direction and feedback to direct reports to foster skill development and performance improvement
- Must be able to use AutoCAD/Illustrator/Photoshop proficiently
- Comfortable with PowerPoint (in order to do presentations)
- Independent & Hands-on (needs to work through other employees)
- Must have a Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Operations, Retail Management, Business Management or any other analytical focus
- Must have 8-10 years of prior planning/allocating/store planning experience
- Must be able to effectively communicate, written and orally, with all levels of employees throughout the organization