Manager, Merchandise Financial Planning - New York City

As the largest jewellery company in the world, we a give a voice to millions of people’s loves every day. Our beautiful products empower people all around the world to express themselves. We are proud to be part of their stories and the most important moments in their lives. 

Where original thinking is welcomed, and can turn into positive impact in a heartbeat, we can dream big, dare to act, and deliver with care and passion. At Pandora you can each craft far more than just an incredible career. 

About the Team:

Our Merchandise Financial Planning manager’s primary objective is to deliver forecasts and guidance on sales and inventory for the North America market. This scope will encompass our ‘Direct to Consumer’ channels and our extensive wholesale network. The Merchandising Finance Planning team works closely with the Assortment Planning and Inventory Optimization team to deliver financial commitments. This person will report directly to the Director of Assortment Planning and Merchandise Financial Planning.

Your Role as a MFP Manager:

In Season:

• Conduct weekly trade reviews that provide analysis on trends vs. plan.

• Effectively communicate and present to leadership and key internal stakeholders the actions required and taken to mitigate risk or capture opportunities to achieve plan.

• Synthesize the Assortment planning team’s item level forecast and Inventory teams stock forecasts to formulate a consolidated ‘Open to Buy’

• Communicate official ‘Open to Buy’ to Merchandising Leadership and Global Merch Planning team.

• Build strategic preseason financial targets with inputs from Assortment Planning, Inventory Optimization & Finance

• Generate and evolve an end-to-end promotional strategy inclusive of execution and discount cost savings or impact

• Create and further automate tools in partnership with Global teams. Transforming excel tools and reports into Power BI will create efficiencies within NAM Merchandising and can be translated to future systems

• Build and iterate in season and pre-season tools as we scale scope of the business functions

Craft your career with us if you have:

• Strong, seasoned, technical merchandise planner / OTB manager or with vertical retailing, omni experience

• 7+ years of solid experience working within Merchandising and/or experience from retail, fashion, lifestyle or FMCG industry.

• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel and strong aptitude to learn technical applications (like: MS Access, Hyperion and APTOS) quickly

• Knowledge of planning software

• Strong business acumen, fact based, analytical and strategic

• Strong analytical skills with the ability to manage large sets of data and present results in a simple manner

• Ability to develop and maintain strong working relationships with peers and cross-functional teams.

• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities.

• Able to perform under pressure, organize and prioritize workload to meet deadline.

• Strong problem solving and negotiation skills

• Ability to part of a team, set challenging standards, develop strong partnerships and lead others to action

• Deliver results or actions to be taken in a timely manner

• Strong presentation skills inclusive of concise messaging

• Develop & mentor other team members

• Support an environment that fosters respect for the ideas of others as well as ongoing collaboration to execute business strategy

NYC Salary : $135,000.00 to $145,000 commensurate with experience

About Pandora:  

Pandora designs, manufactures, and markets hand-finished jewellery made from high-quality materials at affordable prices. 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 27,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery at two LEED certified facilities in Thailand using mainly recycled silver and gold. The company plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 and has joined the Science Based Targets initiative to reduce emissions across its full value chain. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated a revenue of DKK 23.4 billion in 2021.    

Pandora’s recruitment procedures are designed to be transparent and clear for all candidates. This helps us ensure that applicants are provided with a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their competencies and skills by removing blocking factors, possible biases, and risks of discrimination. We encourage everyone applying to our vacancies to refrain from adding identity-related elements such as a photo, marital status and age.  

About Pandora NAM: 

The Pandora team in the USA consists of more than 115 employees working at the hub office in Baltimore, Maryland, more than 80 in our Logistics Center in Columbia, Maryland, an additional 100 in field positions, and more than 3,900 in our owned and operated stores. We have also recently opened an office in New York City in the heart of times square and are actively building out this team with the best talent in the market.  

Today, the USA is Pandora’s single largest market. The Pandora North American region as a whole encompasses over 1,400 points of sale, including over 420 concept stores, with more than 150 being owned and operated by Pandora.