Buying and planning manager

Fondée aux Etats-Unis en 1948 par quatre frères, Haddad Brands est une entreprise familiale privée, qui depuis 70 ans s’est développée depuis New-York, jusqu’à prendre sa dimension internationale actuelle. Son expérience, ses équipes talentueuses à travers le monde, ainsi que les marques prestigieuses qu’elle représente, ont fait d’elle un des leaders du secteur des vêtements pour enfants dans le monde .

En 2017, Haddad Brands Europe, est née quant à elle de la rencontre des dirigeants de Haddad Brands US et de quatre entrepreneurs français, spécialistes de vêtements sous licences, connaissant parfaitement le marché européen .

Haddad Brands Europe, founded 6 years ago, is specialized in the Europe-wide distribution of children's textiles under exclusive licenses (Nike, Levi's, Converse, Jordan, Polo Ralph Lauren...).

The company has experienced incredible growth since its creation, and already has over 400 employees across Europe .

We distribute our products both wholesale, with major specialist and multi-brand manufacturers, and retail, via our corners in department stores.

So if you're buying children's clothing (0-7 years for Nike and 0-16 years for Levi's Converse and Jordan), whether in a boutique or online, in France, Romania or any other European country, the product you're holding comes from us even if you're buying it in a Nike or Levi's boutique!

To support our Merchandising team, we are looking for a Buying and Planning Manager for one of our premium brands on a permanent contract in St. Denis, near the Stade de France.

Key Responsibilities:

* Core responsibility is to create seasonal buy plan to achieve category financial plans and strategic objectives .
* Ensure product / deliveries and all channel demand are streamlined from a quantitative and on time perspective.
* Be able to prioritize plans and make sure to utilize direct assortment by channel segmentation .
* Champion business analysis in order to anticipate business opportunities. Ensure account order are transformed efficiently.
* Build reports in order to monitor sales, inventory, margin at different granularity level and build projection. Responsible for other side projects .
* Strong collaboration with sales and merchandising counterpart to ensure buy meets direct assortment plans by channel, sku optimization and capacity plans are met .
* Recruittrain and develop top talents in this field. Challenge tools and system to ensure you can optimize planning program functionality.


The Ideal Candidate

* Min. Bachelor or higher. Can be compensated by relevant work experience
* 8 years + work experience in fashion, sport and retail
* Strong analytical skills and problem solver.
* Good interpersonal skills to work with different teams and coordinate projects.
* MS office applications, Excel Complex formulas.
* Ability to work with Advanced planning systems and BI Tools (powerBI)
* Fluent in English and French