Merchandise Financial Planning Specialist

Pandora is the world’s largest jewelry brand, and we work every day on giving a voice to people’s loves. Our office in Warsaw, Poland, is the regional Head Office for Pandora Eastern Europe (EE Cluster). From here, we manage across the region, handling our eCommerce, wholesale distribution as well as our owned and operated stores. In addition to our Warsaw office, we have smaller, local offices in Hungary, the Czech Republic and Romania supporting our business in these markets.

Pandora’s business has something unique about it - as does our people-oriented organizational culture. Regardless of position or workplace, we work together in line with the values of “We Care, We Dream, We Dare, We Deliver” and strive for continuous growth and knowledge sharing.

We are looking for a Merchandise Financial Planning Specialist reporting to the Merchandise Financial Manager and will will be responsible for managing financial merchandise plans for distributors and wholesale, analyzing performance, monitoring sales targets, and working closely with global and finance teams to implement the merchandising strategy. Sounds like a perfect job for you? Apply to and #CrafttheIncredible with us!

Your main responsibilities in this Role:

• Own the financial merchandise plans for Distributors and Wholesale,
• Translate global merchandising strategies to local seasonal financial objectives,
• Keep up to date OTB plans and review them monthly and weekly vs last estimate financial expectations with Global team,
• Prepare analysis and files for cross functional meetings with finance team to ensure right visibility and knowledge of the merchandising strategy and OTB plans,
• Collaborate with local finance in the budget setting and review to secure Merchandising forecast is considered in the final budget targets, 
• Cross functionally aligns with finance and Senior leadership to set sell-in targets aligned with sales expectations,
• Communicate all merchandise plan data to Global MFP,
• Monitor and analyze cluster performance, suggesting actions to achieve sales and profitability targets, expansion of collection/category,
• Prepare and present weekly/monthly reports detailing all channel performance and actions,
• Tight collaboration with Global merchandising for the implementation of commercial strategy.
   

You’re the perfect match, if you have:

• University degree in Economics, Business or similar field,
• Min 2/3 years’ experience in working within Merchandising and/or Merchandising planning, Demand Planning in a multi/omni channel company,
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills,
• Analytical skills,
• MS office – Excel, PowerPoint, Power BI (nice to have),
• Fluency in English and Polish,
• Strong team working,
• Strong communication and presentation skills with business stakeholders,
• Experience and passion for the cluster retail market and a deep understanding of the seasonality and the customer,
• Proactive in planning to achieve targets and objectives which deliver profitable outcomes,
• Delivery focused with excellent attention to detail and strong drive to resolve issues,
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities,
• Respects individual’s views and positively contributes to a learning environment in which individuals are supported and encouraged to excel.

We offer:

• Work in a company with a unique organizational culture focused on people and continuous development,
• Cooperation based on employment contract,
• Hybrid work model (3 days of office work a week),
• Free parking for employees regardless of position (reservation required,
• Flexible working hours (start 8am-10am, finish 4pm-6pm),
• Support for professional competence development (including access to global digital learning platform, Linked Learning),
• Attractive package of MEDICOVER medical care with dental care,
• Life insurance,
• MedicoverSport card and cafeteria program,
• Additional day off for birthdays and health check,
• Attractive discounts on PANDORA products,
• Employee Pension Plans (PPE),
• Additional benefits under the company’s social fund (e.g., holiday or kindergarten subsidies).

Pandora’s recruitment procedures are designed to be transparent and clear for all candidates. This helps us ensure that applicants are provided with a fair and equal opportunity to demonstrate their competencies and skills by removing blocking factors, possible biases, and risks of discrimination. We encourage everyone applying to our vacancies to refrain from adding identity-related elements such as a photo, marital status and age.