Merch Operations Analyst

Do you have a passion for Merchandising, and do you want to work at the core of LAPAC Pandora’s operations with business-critical processes? Do you want to take Pandora’s Merchandising Function to the next level? And do you want to join the world’s largest jewelry company? Then you might be the person we are looking for!

The Merchandising Operations Analyst for the LAPAC Merchandising function, you are responsible for leading the overall governance and spearheading the on-going optimization of the end-to-end merchandising process. You will be responsible for overseeing the current process and ways-of-working on coordinate and develop the cross-collection operational processes in the assortment planning space.   

You will govern the end-to-end product development and go-to-market processes across the entire value chain. You will be in charge with driving the continuous optimization of the product development and planning processes to shorten lead time and increase process robustness, transparency and scalability throughout the workload. In this sense, you will be responsible for setting the full-year assortment planning and pricing calendar, track process execution according to different KPIs, own product master data development and new exciting projects about forecasting, line planning, and the overall business. You will enjoy a multitude of cross-functional collaborations with key stakeholders such as Demand Planning, Supply Chain, Marketing, and Finance amongst others, to provide efficiency in the process, develop new ideas to release time, reshape the workload and decrease manual work. 
 

Your Role as Retail Technology Specialist:

• Defining line planning process guidelines, improving tools and time management.
• Managing the end-of-season sales and lifecycles of the products.
• Develop and standardize analysis and reporting about lifecycle and product performance decay prediction.
• Responsibility for pricing over the 27 countries, continuously monitoring key factors such as competitor pricing, economic conditions, and internal performance to propose necessary adjustments. Your insights will be vital in maintaining a competitive and profitable pricing strategy.

What is needed to succeed:

We are looking for a strong, seasoned, technical Merchandise Planner with vertical retailing and omnichannel experience.
You must have strong business acumen and be relentlessly commercial, fact-based and analytical. Your strong analytical skills make you able to manage large sets of data and present results in a simple manner. Apart from being strong in logical reasoning, you are also people-smart, can collaborate cross-functionally and geographically, and you are able to maintain strong working relationships with peers. You are flexible and adaptive to changing priorities, which makes you able to perform under pressure, organise and prioritise workload to meet deadlines. Furthermore, we hope you have or can demonstrate:

• 3+ years of solid experience working within Merchandise Planning, Consumer Insights, or Demand Planning
• Experience from retail, fashion, lifestyle or the FMCG industry
• Experience from Poer BI (not required but good if you have) 
• A bachelor’s or master’s degree in economics, Finance, Marketing, Business Administration, Fashion Merchandising or similar
• High level of proficiency with Microsoft Excel and strong aptitude to learn technical applications (like: MS Access, Hyperion and APTOS) quickly
• Knowledge of planning software
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills as well as presentation skills.
   

Did we get your attention?  

If you see yourself in the position and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please do not hesitate to apply. 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.  

About Pandora  

The largest jewelry company in the world, we give a voice to millions of people’s love every day. Pandora jewelry is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores.

We pursue sustainability In everything we do and have set ambitious and measurable targets across every touchpoint of our business, from sourcing through to the materials we use and the marketing of our products.

Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark, Pandora employs 27,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewelry at two LEED-certified facilities in Thailand using mainly recycled silver and gold. The company plans to be carbon neutral by 2025 and has joined the Science Based Targets initiative to reduce emissions across its full value chain. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated a revenue of DKK 23.4 billion in 2021. 

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 love. We dedicate ourselves to fostering, cultivating, and preserving a culture of inclusion and diversity where everyone feels respected and valued.