Specialist, Merchandise Planning
At Chanel, we are focused on creating an inclusive culture that nurtures personal growth, contributing to collective progress. We believe the uniqueness of each individual increases the diversity, complementarity and effectiveness of our teams. We strongly encourage your application, as we value the perspective, experience and potential you could bring to CHANEL.
About the role:
CHANEL is looking for a Specialist to join our Merchandise Planning Team in New York, NY. You will assist and support a key part of our dynamic fragrance catalog. This role interfaces with many vital cross-functional partners across the business and is a strategic partner for developing an accurate SKU forecast to progress our brand’s leadership and future. Our ideal candidate will have 2+ years of experience and a passion for data analysis, collaboration, and challenging the status quo.
What impact you can create at CHANEL:
- Supporting and owning Men’s fragrance catalog SKU forecast, while delivering on forecast accuracy goals; including base business, promotional plans, new launch volumes, and seasonality
- Prepare for the monthly forecast validation meeting with marketing, sales, and finance, providing analysis to support decision making with key stakeholders regarding yearly outlook on retail performance and gross shipments
- Liaise with Sales & Marketing to ensure forecasts reflect company plans and promotional activities ensuring stellar customer service to retailers
- Contribute to the yearly budget process by helping build company targets and highlight opportunities and risks
- Shared accountability for achieving service level, inventory targets and excess & obsolete inventory goals in partnership with supply planners
You are energized by:
- Working in a highly collaborative, team environment
- Navigating complexity and supporting consistent transformation and change management
- Leading cross-functional projects/systems by becoming a Subject Matter Expert (SME)
- Continuing to strive forward and challenge inefficiencies
- Facilitate transparent communication with key global partners
What you will bring to the team:
- Supply Chain/Mathematics/Planning degree preferred, but not required
- Open mindedness to learn new systems & processes, while also challenging status quo
- High proficiency of Microsoft Excel
- Data Visualization skills (Storytelling: Tables, Charts, etc)
- Unique industry or internship experience, a bonus
Position Logistics:
- 2 years of experience (minimum)
- BA/BS Degree
- Partially Remote: Role requires a minimum of three days in-person office presence in the New York, NY office
*Chanel, Inc. reserves the right to edit, change, or make exceptions on designations where circumstances where deemed appropriate.
What skills you will learn? What experiences might you have?
- Relationship management & cross-functional collaboration
- Leading campaign tracking for responsible catalog
- Opportunities for visibility to senior leadership
- Contributor to key processes/systems through SME
Compensation:
The anticipated base salary range for this position is $60,500 through $85,000. Base salary is one component of the total compensation for this position. Other components [may/will] include additional compensation, benefits, and perks.
Benefits and Perks:
- Wellbeing resources include dedicated paid time off for wellbeing : 2-week August Office Closure and a Wellbeing fund
- Family and care giving benefits (inclusive of parental leave, fertility support, MilkStork, and Care.com Membership)
- Generous paid time off policies to include vacation, holiday, sick and volunteer days
- 401Kand other incentives
- Robust healthcare offerings; medical, dental, vision, MDLIVE (virtual care), One Medical, Flexible Spending Accounts (Health Care & Dependent Care), Health Savings Account and Employee Assistance Program
- Life insurance, Accidental Death & Dismemberment, Short Term Disability, Long Term Disability, Health Advocate, International Business Travel Accident & Medical, and Commuter Transit & Parking
Additional Information:
Chanel is a private company whose values are grounded in creating the conditions for people to perform at their best and feel fulfilled and confident in their work. We offer a unique work environment where individuals are encouraged to better understand the brand, the business, and motivations, so that together we can unlock the possibilities of growth. This is reflected in:
Diversity and Inclusion:
- At CHANEL, we are intentional in promoting Diversity & Inclusion. We foster respect, empathy, and dignity for all. We believe strongly that the diversity of our people across the full spectrum of human differences is essential to our organisation and the connections we have with each other and our clients.
- We offer Employee Resource Groups in the US that are voluntary, open to all, employee-led groups formed around a shared identity or lived experience, whose aim is to foster a diverse, inclusive, and equitable community aligned with the values and missions of the communities they support.
Chanel Community:
- CHANEL Community empowers our employees to channel their passions, talents, and sense of purpose to contribute to and learn from our communities.
- Employees are encouraged to take time off annually to volunteer through CHANEL Community. CHANEL also matches employee donations to select charitable organizations.
Sustainability:
- CHANEL Mission 1.5° is our climate action plan. It is focused on transforming the business in line with the ambitions of the Paris Agreement on climate change to limit the average global mean temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius above preindustrial levels.
- Employees are encouraged to contribute to our US Sustainability efforts at the corporate level and within the divisions, through organized taskforces and initiatives.
Arts and Culture:
- We are committed to extending our legacy of cultural engagement. Global support includes the CHANEL Culture Fund, which supports a select group of leading art culture institutions across the globe, and the CHANEL Next Prize for the next generation of creative talent. US support currently includes Annual sponsorship of the MoMA film program, Tribeca Film Festival programs and Through Her Lens, Support of the Academy Gold Fellowship for Women and Sponsorship of the BAAND Together Dance Festival at Lincoln Center.
Fondation Chanel:
- Since 2011, Fondation CHANEL’s mission is for women and girls to be free to shape their own destiny. Through multi-year partnerships with financial and technical support, Fondation CHANEL is committed to improving the safety and autonomy of women and adolescent girls around the world, impacting over a million women and girls in its first 10 years.
- For more information, please navigate to the Fondation Chanel website here
Career and Leadership Development:
- We have dedicated in-house teams focused on supporting the onboarding of employees, developing leadership skills via custom programs like Imagine Chanel People, Heart of Leadership and group and individual coaching, and blended online and live classes offered on our Bloom platform and by skilled trainers, such as Shape Your Career, to develop career building skills.
*Chanel, Inc. benefits and perks are dependent on eligibility and subject to modification by Chanel at any time.
