Job Title: Assortment Planner II, Mens Running/Training NSP, GC

Overview of the Job: The role focuses on optimizing consumer demand and supply to drive profitable growth and inventory productivity for GC Men’s Running/Training in the NSP channel.  Planner will build seasonal product investment plans and strategies that align with financial targets and the brand vision, playing a key role in cross-functional collaboration to ensure the team adapts to retail speed.

Reporting Line: DIR, M’s Planning Running/Training, Basketball, GC

Key Partnership:

• CFOP GM
• Consumer Merch
• Store Merch

Job Responsibility:

• Develop a strategic framework for seasonal product investment planning.
• Lead Men’s Running/Training buy strategy by reconciling topline financials, brand roadmap, assortment strategy, and marketplace capacity with bottom-up investment.
• Align plans with input and collaboration from key stakeholders, including CFOP GM and the Merchandising team.
• Continuously monitor product performance and optimize future season inventory and investment based on the latest trends.
• Analyze product performance, including sell-through rates, color performance, and SKU productivity.

Functional Skill Required (Hard skills):

• Buying, Planning, Assortment Planning experience with apparel / footwear
• Comprehensive understanding of retail math
• Experience in developing an understanding of consumers, competitors, and retail trends
• Ability to interpret financial sales data to make decisions and recommendations that impact the business
• Advanced knowledge of MS office applications; proficiency in Excel
• Product Knowledge

Experience Required (Soft skills):

• Be Open and Curious
• High profile x-functional communication
• Visionary and Strategic
• Strong team player and management on all aspects of the business
• Learning agility
• Bachelor degree or above
• Fluent in Chinese & English