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About the Role:

The Merchandise Planning Manager will be key partner to Global Merchandising and Global regions/ Regional channels to understand and address product opportunities and challenges. They will be responsible for creating and presenting targets and initiatives to continue to strategically drive the growth of the business. They will develop Global seasonal product plans, analyze sku productivity, perform in-season and post-season hindsight reporting across Regional channels by collaborating effectively with cross-functional partners.

What You'll Do:

Product Strategy:

• Own Global regions' pre-season buy projections for key classifications, programs, Heros/Essentials, product segmentation for all KPIs at Go-to-Consumer milestones

• Develop top-down and bottom-up financial targets and provide planning guidance for all projections and buys to ensure proper penetration by product category and mix

• Engage Global regions/Regional channels' Buying/Planning/Sales teams to develop strategies, identify opportunities, and address regional needs and voids in assortment and buys

• Compile and analyze quarterly, seasonal, annual actualized shipments, style/sku counts, and margins for Regional channels. Monitor actuals against projections to understand business results and share insights on variances.

• Identify product and delivery flow wins/risks and cross-channel opportunities to drive assortment strategies

• Analyze and identify opportunities to improve sku efficiency by monitoring pre-season development and adoption rates and in-season sales productivity to eliminate unproductive skus and drive selling productivity

• Ensure style/sku planning attributes are consistent with evolving product line architecture

• Influence line architecture, SKU productivity, and product lifecycle strategies

• Translate merchandising strategies into financial targets, category frameworks, and investment guardrails

• Manage and drive global product margin targets across all milestones of product development

• Build global projection frameworks to support capacity planning, cost negotiation, and margin improvement initiatives

Business Analysis:

• Analyze selling performance across Global regions and Regional channels

  • In-Season/Post-season business opportunity

    • WTD/MTD selling analysis and share out

    • QTD/STD selling hindsights

  • Top line sales and sales trends

  • Best and worst sellers; color selling

  • Assortment updates and learnings

• Provideboth qualitative and quantitative analysis atquarterly and seasonal hindsights and investment reviews,drawing insights to affect future product line architecture

• Perform margin and cost analysis to ensure margin targets are achieved, and highlight risks and variances

• Drive weekly business discussions with Global Merchandising and Regional channels to analyze the business, digging deeper into selling trends

• Develop and evolve standardized reports and processes to drive efficiencies and advance the team's productivity

• Solicit and perform ad-hoc analysis as needed

• Manage, train, and develop Merchandise Planner

• Lead scenario planning and risk mitigation strategies to support dynamic business needs

• Collaborate with Finance to align top-down and bottom-up targets

• Analyze in-season business performance across categories, regions, and channels to identify growth drivers and risks

• To identify product opportunities and assortment gaps for future seasons

• Conduct buy review of regional assortments to ensure alignment with global product strategies and investment priorities

Key Partnerships

• Serve as key liaison between global and regional planning teams, ensuring feedback loops and localization needs are captured

• Partner with Merchandising, Design, Supply to ensure timely execution of seasonal strategies

• Track key KPIs including margin %, units, AUR, style/option counts, and commonality

• Ensure accuracy and consistency across planning tools, trackers, and reporting

What You'll Bring:

• minimum 6- 8 years of experience in Planning, ideally in global or multi-region capacity

• Experience in a retail or wholesale environment, including time as a Planner, Buyer, or as Retail business analyst preferred

• Strong analytical skills with fluency in financial modeling, forecasting, and inventory management

• Deep understanding of consumer behavior, retail dynamics, and product lifecycle

• Demonstrated retail math and business acumen, including elements of markup, margin planning, selling and inventory productivity measures

• Excellent verbal and written communication and presentation skills including presenting complex material in an organized and compelling manner

• Strategic thinker who recognizes opportunities and can recommend strategies by building business case and influence senior leaders to move to execution

• High level of conceptual creative ability. Strong product sense with proven experience in driving product assortments and partnering with divisional leaders to lead investment strategies that drive business

• Strong time management skills, attention to detail, problem solving, interpersonal and organizational skills - communication between functional groups is critical

• Knowledge of ACS, SAP, 7th On-Line, MicroStrategy/Lighthouse/Power BI, Miro/Visulon preferred

• A global mindset with sensitivity to regional nuance

• Bachelor's Degree in Arts/Sciences (BA/BS)

• Ability to negotiate with and influence peers and members of cross functional team.

• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.

• Ability to formally present business strategies and action plans.

• Ability to motivate and train planning team members.

• Must have strong technical skills specifically Microsoft Excel, Business Intelligence software, and industry recognized Planning and Allocation tools.

This position is not eligible for sponsorship.

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Pay Range:$125,100---$169,300PVH currently provides base salary ranges for all positions-on job advertisements-in the United States based on local requirements. These ranges are based on what PVH reasonably believes that it will pay an associate for their base salary for said position at the time of the posting. Individual compensation will ultimately be determined based on a variety of relevant factors including but-not limited to qualifications, geographic location and other relevant skills. PVH is committed to providing a market-competitive total rewards package to eligible associates, which includes diverse and robust health and insurance benefits to meet the varied needs of our associates and an above-market 401(k) contribution to help our associates save for retirement. We also offer career growth opportunities, empowering our associates to design their future at PVH.Additional Compensation: This role is bonus eligible.

Your Wellbeing is Our Priority

At PVH, we offer competitive, cost-effective, and comprehensive benefit packages. We strive to provide options when it comes to your health, finances, and work-life balance. This includes:

• Pay & Insurance: Competitive pay, bonus programs, best in class medical insurance, vision insurance, dental insurance, life insurance, disability insurance, and more.

• 401(k): An above-market 401(k) contribution to help our eligible associates save for retirement.

• Flexible Workplace: Generous company-paid holidays, paid time off, hybrid working arrangements, volunteer opportunities, seasonal hours, and flexible work schedules.

• Wellbeing Support: A variety of wellbeing tools and programs such as, Headspace membership, reimbursement for fitness memberships and/or digital meditation subscriptions, and the opportunity to earn up to $200 a year in rewards for exercising and participating in healthy activities.

• Care.com Services: Access to services for childcare, elder care, adoption preparation, pet care, plus reimbursement for backup care when your regular plans fall through.

• Education Assistance: Receive support for continued education including tuition reimbursement.

• Associate Discount: Shop at our company outlets and e-commerce sites at a discount.

Please note, eligibility depends on employment status, location and length of time employed with PVH and our benefits may be subject to change. Applications will be accepted on a rolling basis until the position is filled.

About PVH:

We are brand builders who focus our passion and creativity to build Calvin Klein and TOMMY HILFIGER into the most desirable lifestyle brands in the world and at the same time position PVH as one of the best-performing brand groups in our sector. Guided by our values and enabled by our scale and global reach, we are driving fashion forward for good, as one team with one vision and one plan. That's the Power of Us, that's the Power of PVH+.

One of PVH's greatest strengths is our people. Our collective desire is to create a workplace environment where every individual is valued, and every voice is heard, and we are committed to fostering an inclusive and diverse community of associates with a strong sense of belonging. Learn more about Inclusion & Diversity at PVH here.

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To achieve these goals, across the United States and its territories, PVH prohibits any PVH employee, agent or representative from requesting or otherwise considering any job applicant's current or prior wages, salary or other compensation information in connection with the hiring process. Accordingly, applicants are asked not to disclose this salary history information to PVH.