Ralph Lauren is looking for a Sales Planning Associate to join the team in London.

The key objective of the Sales Planning Associate is to develop and grow Wholesale Re-Order revenue for all brands across Ralph Lauren's physical & digital account base.

The successful applicant will collaborate closely with all Brand sales managers in analysing sell-out performance, category development opportunities and liaise across multiple functions to deliver sustainable profitable growth.

Responsibilities of the Sales Planning Associate:

• Achievement of quarterly & annual regional re-order sales targets.
• Brainstorming and executing new ideas, developing clear strategic goals and new business opportunities that will deliver re-order revenue growth.
• Work closely with account managers to identify business opportunities, best practices, efficiencies, key calendar sales points etc.
• Regularly connect with Key partners to present and execute all reorder opportunities.
• Performance analysis, including sell-out performance, inbound deliveries, stock holding and ROS analysis and collaborating with buyers to develop category strategies to optimise assortments.
• Forecasting demand at category & material level, including pre-planning.

What Ralph Lauren is looking for:

• Entrepreneurial mindset with the ability to identify opportunities and implement creative approaches to driving business growth whilst building strong internal and external relationships.
• Highly motivated, demonstrating commercial awareness and proven success in achieving sales targets.
• Strong analytical skills, advanced Excel proficiency, a solid understanding of business functions such as forecasting and planning, as well as trend and product knowledge, are important.
• Data handling, processing, cleaning, working with structured & unstructured data (text, images, etc.
• Preparing business cases using robust data to present clear scenarios internally and externally
• AI skills:
  • Data interpretation & insight generation
  • Customer intelligence
  • Workflow automation & efficiency
  • Presentation enhancement
  • Problem solving & scenario planning