Manager, Assortment Planning

Are you ready to leverage your strategic mindset and analytical thinking in order to maximize commercial value? Do you thrive in fast-paced and highly collaborative environments? And, are you looking for the opportunity to work in a global organization alongside passionate and self-driven professionals? Then, keep on reading!

About the Role
We are looking for an experienced Manager to join Pandora’s Merchandising & Assortment Planning team and drive cross-functional product development process from assortment strategy, architecture and collection financials lens. In this role, you will be building collection architecture, financial planning, and sell-out forecast of a respective collection. Additionally, the position includes driving Range Framework initiatives and ensuring hand-offs to global and local Merchandising teams for execution. 

More specifically, your responsibilities will include:

• Building the bottom-up assortment architecture & financial planning to meet top-down financial targets for the collections in scope.
• Responsibility for sell-out forecast across all milestones to inform collection financial targets, S&OP and planning & allocation.
• Ownership of product lifecycle management to maximize the assortment, from creation to exit – as well as ownership of collection article frame and collection financials.
• Analyzing and presenting with confidence the global weekly/monthly/quarterly trade results, preparing post-mortems, while also connecting to future risk & opportunities to identify commercial actions & future product opportunities.
• Working in collaboration with global and local Merchandising teams to facilitate local execution and maximizing commercial opportunities, and also driving cross-functional collaboration with Design and GBU teams to create impactful newness assortment.
• Driving Range Framework initiatives, and owning tools to be handover to local merchandising teams, inventory and allocation.Preparing for final sign-off on launches for NPD (New Product Development) process, and being responsible for annual planning and key product development milestones.

What is needed to succeed
In order to succeed, you have a strategic mindset with the ability to analyze market trends, customer behavior, and performance data to inform merchandising decisions and align them with broader business goals. You are commercially-driven, and focusing on creating commercial value through identifying and executing commercial opportunities that maximize collection LfL growth. You enjoy dynamic environments, and you can easily adapt to changing market & organizational conditions, as well as perform under ambiguity while fostering creativity and innovation. 

Additionally, we expect that you have and can demonstrate:

• At least 3-5 years of solid experience working within Product Merchandising, Demand planning, Buying, or Allocation – ideally within retail or fashion.
• 1-2 years of experience in a people management role, with strong leadership skills and the ability to guide and develop your team.
• Strong stakeholder management and influencing skills, with the ability to structure, simplify, and effectively communicate insights & analyses to various stakeholders.
• Attention to detail, working with high level of precision and accuracy within data maintenance and performance analysis tasks.
• Professional proficiency in English, both written and verbal.

Did we get your attention?
We hope you got all your questions answered and feel confident applying for this position. If you see yourself in the role and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply! We are an international team, so please make sure to send us your application in English to be considered.

We look forward to hearing from you! We process applications on a continuous basis, which is why we encourage you to send your application as soon as possible. You can also read more about Pandora on our corporate site www.pandoragroup.com.

Icing on the cake
You will be working out of our Head Office in Copenhagen V. Besides our beautiful interior design, we are also proud of our LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design. This means that we use as few natural resources as possible and that we use them with respect. The result is a professional and dynamic space that is unique, comfortable and inspirational – and delivers a true Pandora experience to anyone who works here or comes to visit.

About Pandora
Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery. Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold. Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.

At Pandora, we believe that creating an inclusive and diverse workplace and reflecting societal diversity in our customer engagement is essential to delivering on our company purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.