The Manager, Planning is responsible for leading the planning and execution of distribution and promotional activities for Under Armour products across its channel. This role requires understanding of market dynamics, consumer behavior, and competitive landscapes to effectively allocate resources and maximize ROI. The Manager, Planning will also be responsible for leading the whole Planning team including Wholesale and eCommerce, and will work closely with Merchandising, Marketplace, and SCM teams to ensure alignment and drive business growth, while also leading a team of planners.

• Lead the development of bottom-up demand plans and bottom-up merchandising financial plan (if any) for the channel, ensuring alignment with overall business strategies. • Lead the creation of what/if scenarios to guide leadership decisions, providing insights on channel profitability and risks. • Lead the tracking, testing, and analysis of contingency pricing strategies, providing detailed reports and recommendations to improve channel performance. • Own the development and management of weekly demand and pricing plans across categories (full price, promotions, markdowns) to ensure alignment with financial and sales targets. • Lead the planning of size eligibility, floor-sets, and replenishment management, ensuring channel strategies are executed effectively. • Partner with Regional Merchandise Financial Planning teams to reconcile top-down and bottom-up plans, ensuring consistency and accuracy. • Work with Merchandising to align the bottom-up financial plan with the assortment strategy, ensuring inventory and sales goals are met. • Lead the gathering and analysis of hindsight data, sharing insights at key meetings including weekly sell-thru meeting to leadership team and influencing future channel strategies. • Collaborate with channel business teams and other departments to ensure channel financial plans are integrated with overall business initiatives. • Continuously monitor financial and product performance against targets, making proactive adjustments to meet channel goals. • Guide and mentor a team of planners, fostering collaboration and team development whilst ensuring alignment with organizational and team goals to drive successful outcomes. • Manage weekly channel demand forecast at style-color level both for pre-season and in –season, corresponding to merchandising financial plan and inventory KPIs.

• Bachelor's degree in Business, Marketing, or a related field. • 9+ years of experience in Sales or Merch Planning, Demand Planning and Allocation. • Experience in the apparel or footwear industry is preferred. • Proven track record of developing and executing successful Channel strategies. • Proficient in channel planning, scenario planning, and long-range forecasting using market trends, financial plans, consumer insights, and historical data.​ • Robust analytical skills with the ability to influence by interpreting complex data to drive decision making. • Ability to collaborate across teams and senior leaders and expertly communicate complex data insights and algorithm-driven findings to non-technical stakeholders • Expertise in conducting comprehensive financial analyses and generating detailed reports that drive decision-making.​ • Ability to lead financial strategy development, integrating financial acumen into overall business strategy and planning initiatives.​ • Leadership & change-readiness skills with a proven ability to lead, mentor and develop team members • Skilled in using data analysis and visualization tools, with direct experience in Blue Yonder’s Planning module

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