Senior Manager Outlet Planning

Department: COMMERCIAL RESOURCES

City: London

Location: GB

You will lead, inspire and take accountability for all Outlet planning activities across Burberry's Outlet function. You will lead by example, acting as an ambassador for Burberry, fostering a culture of simplification, innovation and collaboration, and driving excellence across the Outlet channel.

You will be accountable for:

• Taking the lead in creating strategic and controlled inventory management of the Outlet channel, through the Corporate OTB process to achieve our sales, inventory and margin targets
• Commercial insights in driving pre-season and in-season decisions (with a key focus on promotions) to ensure improved inventory productivity, drive sales and deliver margins.
• Collaborating with Outlet Merchandising, Finance, Commercial Strategy and all Regional teams to ensure alignment

Global Outlet Planning Management

• Responsible for the forecasting of sales, margin and inventory at a global and regional level based on historical data, market trends and seasonal insights
• Accountable for the Outlet OTB including intake, transfers, delist and consolidations in line with the overall annual Sales, Margin and Inventory strategy
• Accountable for alignment with Finance on Fiscal budgets and Forecasts, incorporating product strategies for Sales, Margin and Inventory
• Assess and challenge regional Open to Buy submissions ensuring optimal and efficient inventory and productivity assumptions.
• Accountable for highlighting risks and opportunities to targets, and gaining alignment across teams based on shifts in delist strategy from Full Price
• Responsible for cross functional partnership with Outlet Merchandising, Supply Chain, Legal, Finance and Regional Outlet teams to ensure operational efficiency of Outlet process

Leadership

• Embody the Burberry values
• Coach and develop team to drive planning excellence
• Foster a culture of collaboration and one team spirit
• Actively engage in coaching and mentoring activities, driving personal and professional development and fostering a high-performance culture

• Demonstrated excellence across all aspects of Outlet planning, including financial/commercial planning, Outlet inventory management and global Open to Buy management
• Effective communication skills, with proven experience in influencing with credibility up to C-suite
• Strong leadership skills: inspiring, energising and instilling a culture of innovation, collaboration, and accountability
• Creative, innovative and customer-oriented when faced with business challenges
• Dynamic and collaborative style, able to build positive working relationships with cross-functional teams and translate strategic direction to all levels of the organisation
• Exceptional attention to detail and analytical skills

• Delivering Global Outlet Sales, Margin and Inventory in line with targets
• Rolling OTB management
• Development of an inspired, high performing team with strong collaboration among cross-functional teams

Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.