Senior Manager Footwear / Sport Planning

Senior Manager, Planning is responsible for leading and orchestrating the end-to-end planning of the sports and shoes categories for ZALORA’s retail and marketplace businesses across all brands. Reporting to the Commercial Director, this role will own the forecasting, inventory, inbounds, sell-through, revenue, and gross margin, ensuring alignment with business objectives and operational excellence.

We are looking for an experienced leader who is commercial, strategic, with a great eye and passion for sports and shoes brands, willing to problem solve and constantly build and grow the business.

Responsibilities :

• Own the P&L of the Sports & Footwear category accounting for majority of our annual budget across our regional footprint : be responsible for the overall performance of the category from topline sales and revenue to post marketing and markdowns cost profitability, as well as optimizing cash flow and inventory turn.
• Lead, mentor and develop the sports and shoes Planning team, fostering a high-performance culture with a continuous improvement mindset.
• Lead the team through bottom up brand plans building the category with strategic thinking, strong rational and analysis of historical performance to prepare and execute the buying budgets.
• Maximize company sales budgets, margin targets and operating profit through the effective direction and management of all aspects of category buying.
• Champion best practices and uniformity across planning processes.

Commercial & Financial Ownership

Marketplace Planning

Operational Excellence

Requirements :

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