Ref#: W164294
Department: Merchandising & Planning
City: Watford
State/Province: Hertfordshire
Location: United Kingdom
Company Description
Ralph Lauren Corporation (NYSE:RL) is a global leader in the design, marketing and distribution of premium lifestyle products in five categories: apparel, accessories, home, fragrances, and hospitality. For more than 50 years, Ralph Lauren’s reputation and distinctive image have been consistently developed across an expanding number of products, brands and international markets. The Company’s brand names, which include Ralph Lauren, Ralph Lauren Collection, Ralph Lauren Purple Label, Polo Ralph Lauren, Double RL, Lauren Ralph Lauren, Polo Ralph Lauren Children, Chaps, among others, constitute one of the world’s most widely recognized families of consumer brands.
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
An exciting new position (12 month FTC) within the direct-to-consumer business planning team for EMEA. As our business is undergoing a global ERP & planning system transformation, we are looking for a data-driven, technical expert to be our team’s key link and support to these initiatives, whilst also supporting our channel planning with ad-hoc reporting queries, projects and roll ups across DTC business channels.

Experience, Skills, and Knowledge

• 3-5 years strategic cycles in retail merchandising, data or financial role (role equivalent to junior manager level with no direct reports)
• Passionate about systems, technical processes & data integrity
• Strong attention to detail, quality and accuracy imperative
• Keenness to learn, problem solve and adapt to new tools & models
• Ability to work under pressure and to respect deadlines
• Advanced Excel skills to process & interpret data
• Thorough understanding & application of retail maths & KPIs
• Enthusiastic team playe

Essential Duties & Responsibilities

• Become the go-to expert for systems transition, new processes, BI queries & data integrity within the team
• Partner across the business planning team and cross functionally to build relationships, align on requirements, highlight opportunities & challenges with systems transitions
• Feedback requirements, findings, being vocal about EMEA’s needs to ensure a seamless transition
• Represent our department in meetings (deputizing for lead where required)
• Robust testing of new systems, metrics, processes ensuring usability & accuracy for planning digital and physical business channels
• Continuously update the business planning team during migration to new systems, creating SOPs and running training sessions
• Support channel leads & planning managers with ad-hoc analysis, monthly forecast & annual budget process and provide additional coverage on regular daily & weekly performance reporting where required
• Identify and feedback process opportunities for greater synergy & integration across business planning channels

Experience, Skills, and Knowledge

• 3-5 years strategic cycles in retail merchandising, data or financial role (role equivalent to junior manager level with no direct reports)
• Passionate about systems, technical processes & data integrity
• Strong attention to detail, quality and accuracy imperative
• Keenness to learn, problem solve and adapt to new tools & models
• Ability to work under pressure and to respect deadlines
• Advanced Excel skills to process & interpret data
• Thorough understanding & application of retail maths & KPIs
• Enthusiastic team player