Director, Merchandising Planning & Analysis

Establish scalable planning frameworks that improve forecast accuracy and drive revenue, margin, inventory, and profitability performance.Enable data-driven merchandising and product decisions through reporting, insights, financial analysis, and scenario planning.Serve as a key strategic partner to Finance, Merchandising, and Product teams, ensuring alignment on targets, assumptions, investments, risks, and opportunities.Bring structure and visibility to the merchandising business through consistent processes, integrated planning, and performance tracking.Connect product creation and assortment strategies to financial goals, ensuring product decisions support sustainable, profitable growth.Own top-down financial planning across channels while partnering closely with channel planning teams to connect top-down targets with bottom-up plans. Act as a strategic thought partner linking the product creation and merchandising process to the company’s financial goals.Develop holistic analyses of the end-to-end financial impact of product lines, including costing, pricing, margin performance, inventory investment, and assortment productivity.Evaluate product portfolio performance across artists, categories, and channels, identifying opportunities to optimize assortment mix, profitability, and marketplace inventory health.Assess cross-category and cross-channel trade-offs to support high-impact product investments and drive sustainable growth.Partner with Merchandising, Production, Supply Chain, and Finance to evaluate product economics, including cost structure, margin opportunities, and inventory risk.Provide recommendations to optimize product investments, pricing architecture, inventory allocation, and profitability across the global merchandise portfolio. Partner with Merchandising to ensure line plans are grounded in financial targets, consumer demand, and performance expectations.Analyze assortment productivity, pricing architecture, category performance, and margin performance across categories and channels.Provide recommendations to optimize assortment mix, pricing, inventory allocation, and product lifecycle decisions.Support pre-season and in-season planning decisions through data, financial modeling, and analysis.Help ensure product assortments balance creative ambition, consumer demand, financial targets, and operational feasibility. 8–12+ years of experience in merchandise planning, financial planning & analysis, product finance, strategic finance, retail finance, analytics, or related functions within retail, fashion, consumer products, music, entertainment, or global brands.Strong financial acumen, including forecasting, margin analysis, inventory planning, demand planning, budgeting, and profitability analysis.Experience working closely with merchandising, product, finance, supply chain, and channel teams in a cross-functional environment.Experience connecting product or assortment strategies to financial targets and business performance.Strong understanding of merchandise planning, line planning, pricing, costing, assortment productivity, and inventory investment.Advanced analytical skills with proficiency in Excel and data tools such as Tableau, Looker, Power BI, or similar platforms.Strong financial modeling, scenario planning, and data analysis capabilities.Ability to translate complex financial, product, and performance data into clear, actionable insights for non-finance stakeholders and senior leaders.Strong communication, influence, and stakeholder management skills.Experience building or improving planning processes, tools, systems, and operating cadences.Ability to navigate ambiguity, balance creative and commercial priorities, and drive alignment in a fast-paced, evolving business.Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Accounting, Business Administration, Economics, Merchandising, or related field preferred; MBA or advanced degree a plus. Here are some of the ways we support you along the way (and just a few of the benefits we offer):