Merchandise Planning Manager

NA-KD is created by problem-solvers, disruptors and early-adopters. We are a young e-commerce company with a mission to re-inventing women's fashion and bring trends from across the world that don't cost the earth. We want to be the fashion fit for the future.
Merchandise Planning Manager
As a Merchandise Planning Manager at NA-KD, you will play an important role within the planning team, and we are offering a unique opportunity to be part of a critical function at one of Europe's fastest growing companies. You will oversee the end-to-end processes, strategies and people managing our Private Label categories in order to achieve sales and inventory plans aligning with financial targets and company objectives. You will provide reports and analysis and recommend how to maximize sales and optimize stock turn. To deliver your role you are confident in creating inventory and sales strategies and use your experience of managing people to create a collaborative and motivated team environment.
Your Future
Conduct data-driven analyses by leveraging key retail KPIs to drive assortment planning, in-season management, and hindsight analysis
Evaluate historical sales trends to translate data into actionable merchandise plans
Integrate company-level initiatives into actionable strategies for each category, focusing on key KPIs to measure results
Create reporting to identify opportunities (e.g., markdown, replenishment, and more)
Drive process development within the planning function, from ideation to implementation
Perform brand-level hindsight analyses to inform pre-season plan in next cycle and share insights with department leads
Demonstrate strong listening, written and oral communication skills, able to present ideas and directions that rally others to action
Lead, develop and empower multiple direct reports

Your Past & Your Skills
Bachelor's degree or higher
5-8 years of relevant work experience in supply/demand, financial or merchandise planning
Strong understanding of retail financial metrics and general business acumen
Strong written and verbal communication skills; skilled in the art of storytelling, driven by insights and data
Tremendous organization, process management, and attention to detail
Strong Excel skills
Ability to work in an entrepreneurial, fast-moving environment
Strong people management skills



How To Apply
Please submit your full application in English. When you apply we would like you to attach your CV and answer a few questions about your background. Please note we are working with a running screening and interview process.
Location
Gothenburg, Sweden
The Dream Team
Working at NA-KD is unlike any other fashion gig. We’re a young company with a start-up mentality and (a borderline insane) hunger to be the best. In less than 5 years NA-KD has become one of the fastest growing fashion e-com brand in the world. And we have a 4 million strong community to prove it. How? We see no limitations, only possibilities. No failures, only learning opportunities. We’re problem-solvers, disruptors and early-adopters. We’re doers. And if you dream of going to work every day to build the next big thing – then welcome home.