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Job Title: Wholesale Business Planner - Juicy Couture
Job Location: NY: New York
Pay Rate: Open
Job Length: full time
Start Date: 2008-09-17

Company Name: Liz Claiborne, Inc.
Contact: HR
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Description: Wholesale Business Planner - Juicy Couture

Job ID: 9574 # Positions: 1 City - State - Country: US-NY-New York Position Type: Full Time Posted Date: 09-15-08 Category: Planning/Other

Apply for this job: Your application choices are: * Apply for this jobonline Liz Claiborne Inc. is an Equal Employment/Affirmative Action Employer (M/F/D/V) and is committed to diversity in its workplace.

More information about this job: Overview: Juicy Couture, founded in 1994 by Gela Nash-Taylor and Pamela Skaist-Levy, has evolved into a multimillion-dollar lifestyle brand. Originally known for the tracksuit, Juicy Couture has expanded into womens and girls ready-to-wear apparel, shoes, swimwear, timepieces, handbags, sunglasses, jewelry, optic eyewear, small leather goods and womens fragrances. Juicy also offers baby gear and a wide array of doggie accessories for the savvy puppy. Juicy Couture for Men (soon to be Dirty English), was debuted in 2003 and includes denim, ready-to-wear, accessories, fragrance and sunglasses. Its luxury collection, Couture Couture, launched in 2007 and is manufactured with premier Italian fabrics designed exclusively for the brand. Juicy Couture currently has 36 retail locations across the U.S. and is set to expand to 60 stand-alone retail stores in the U.S. by year-end 2008. Internationally, Juicy Couture retail locations can be found in Italy, Japan, Hong Kong, China, Malaysia and the United Arab Emirates (Dubai) and will expand in Asia with 18-21 stores by the end of 2008, totaling 83 retail locations worldwide.

Responsibilities: The Wholesale Business Planner will support the sales team in planning and forecasting the department store business, as well as the merchandising and design teams on classification planning. An extensive amount of sales analysis and strategic planning skills as well as communication with account executives is required. The Wholesale Business Planner will need to have an advanced technical skill set with the Access Microsoft application. KEY AREAS OF RESPONSIBILITY INCLUDE: . Analytical Duties: . Prepares Classification recaps and analysis by account . Conducts Monthly sales/stock analysis . Performs periodic market share analysis . Review retail performance on an ongoing basis to identify opportunities through product best sellers and door/regional performance and profitability . Provide senior management with additional in depth analysis of current business trends . Attend weekly sales meetings, reviewing and reacting to sales trends, initiating reorders or cancellations, RTVs . Prepare for and attend supply/demand balancing meetings . Market Preparation -Prepare management, classification, style and by door recaps -Participate in market appointments as needed . Communication -Work with Director of Operations and Planning and Account Executives to complete analysis -Dialogue with stores to obtain information as needed -Participate in market appointments and conference calls -Interface with merchandising for classification planning

Qualifications: MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS (Must Have): . Strong retail math, Excel, and advanced Access skills a MUST . Bachelors degree . 3+ yrs experience in planning or analysis . Aggressive self starter . Strong sense of urgency . Team player with positive, can do attitude . Exceptional analytical and problem solving skills . Strong attention to detail . Strong verbal and communication skills PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS: . Knowledge of WBI Microstrategy system a plus

Required Skills: . MS Office (Word, Excel, Power Point, Access) . Retail Math

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