Our Client
Are you looking to do more than just analyze numbers—do you want to actively help shape the future of a premium fashion company? If so, a key role awaits you here, one with high visibility and direct influence on the financial success of an established fashion company.
Our client is a premium fashion company currently undergoing an exciting transformation from a catalog retailer to a modern, customer-centric omnichannel retailer. The focus is on high-quality fashion, excellent service, and the consistent development of data-driven management and planning processes. The company is headquartered where others come to relax—surrounded by nature, yet conveniently close to the Stuttgart metropolitan area.
In this strategically important role, you will report directly to the CEO and take responsibility for merchandise planning and controlling across all sales channels.
Your Responsibilities
- Managing assortment, volume, and sales planning across all sales channels.
- Responsibility for budget and limit planning, as well as the consistent management of open-to-buy processes.
- Optimizing product availability, inventory levels, and capital tied up through effective allocation and replenishment processes.
- Analyzing relevant KPIs such as margin, OTB, forecast, inventory turnover, and performance.
- Managing promotional and campaign planning in collaboration with Purchasing, Sales, Marketing, and E-Commerce.
- Further development of modern reporting and forecasting structures.
- Close collaboration with sourcing, procurement, logistics, controlling, and other departments.
- Lead and develop a team of currently eight employees.
Your Profile
- A college degree or comparable qualification in a business-related field.
- Several years of experience in merchandise planning, buying controlling, or comparable management roles.
- Ideally, experience in an omnichannel environment with catalog sales.
- Very good understanding of relevant key metrics such as OTB, margin, forecast, and inventory turnover.
- Strong analytical skills combined with a keen sense for products and target audiences.
- Experience in further developing planning and reporting processes.
- Proficiency in using BI tools and ERP systems.
- A clear, engaging, and development-oriented leadership style.
The Position
- A strategically important key role reporting directly to the CEO.
- Significant autonomy in an exciting phase of transformation.
- Direct influence on planning, profitability, and omnichannel performance.
- An appreciative and family-friendly corporate culture.
- Short decision-making paths and high visibility within the organization.
- Flexible work hours and the option to work remotely.
- Opportunities for personal and professional development.
- Attractive benefits and a modern work environment.
If you’d like to actively help shape this transformation and influence the future of a premium omnichannel company—and you have the required expertise—please apply using Reference Number 22430526 with your detailed resume and salary expectations via our application form:
Apply online here – Reference Number 1203, Senior Head of Merchandise Planning & Controlling (m/f/d)
If you have any initial questions, please feel free to contact Tina Ulbricht at 0711-954654-0. We guarantee complete confidentiality.
TOPOS Personalberatung GmbH & Co. KG
Kreuznacher Straße 60
70372 Stuttgart