Specialist, Assortment Planning

Are you passionate about driving commercial success through smart assortment strategies and data-driven planning? Join us in a dynamic role where you'll help architect our collections, forecast performance, and support global growth initiatives. From financial planning to cross-functional product development, you'll be at the heart of turning strategy into impact. 

This role supports the development of collection architecture, financial planning, and sell-out forecasting, while contributing to Range Framework initiatives and ensuring seamless collaboration with global and local merchandising teams. You’ll also play a key role in the cross-functional product development process, bringing strategic insight into assortment strategy, architecture, and collection financials.

Key Responsibilities:

• Support in building the bottom-up assortment architecture & financial planning to meet top-down financial targets for the collections in scope
• Deliver sell-out forecast across all milestones to inform collection financial targets, S&OP and planning & allocation
• Facilitate product lifecycle management to maximize the assortment, from creation to exit. 
• Work in collaboration with global and local merchandising teams to facilitate local execution and maximizing commercial opportunities
• Support in adhering to collection article frame (count) and collection financials
• Support execution of Range Framework initiatives, own tools to be handover to local merchandising teams, inventory and allocation
• Preparing key merchandising deliverables for NPD (New Product Development) process, prepare and support modelling for annual planning and key product development milestones
• Support cross-functional collaboration with Design and GBU teams to create impactful newness assortment that maximizes commercial value, through providing data-driven performance insights that inform assortment decisions
• Reading global weekly/monthly/quarterly trade results, prepare deep-dive analyses and post-mortems, while connecting to future risk & opportunities to identify commercial actions & future product opportunities 

Key Requirements:

• Bachelors degree in Business Adminstration, Economics etc. or equivalent relevant experience
• 3-5 years of solid experience working within Product Merchandising, Demand planning, Buying, Allocation
• Experience from retail or fashion industry 
• An ability to analyze market trends, customer behaviour, and performance data to inform merchandising decisions and align them with broader business goals 
• An ability to work with high level of precision and accuracy within data maintenance and performance analysis tasks
• An ability to structure, simplify and effectively communicate performance insights & analyses to various stakeholders with confidence 
• Strong stakeholder management and negotiation skills, ability to collaborate & influence cross-functionally
• Proficiency with Microsoft Office Suite, potentially with Buying & Forecasting software, PLM program
• Fluency in English, spoken and written

Additional Information:

Global Career Band: 5B

Travel requirement is approx 10 days per year

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If you see yourself in this role and would like to become a part of Pandora’s future, please apply. We look forward to hearing from you! We process applications on a continuous basis, so we encourage you to apply as soon as possible. Learn more about Pandora at www.pandoragroup.com.

Icing on the cake

 You will be working out of our beautiful Head Office in Copenhagen V, designed to bring people together and inspire collaboration. Our office has a LEED Gold Certification for Energy and Environmental Design, meaning it is a space where sustainability meets innovation – a true reflection of the Pandora spirit.

About Pandora:

Pandora is the world's largest jewellery brand, specialising in the design, crafting and marketing of accessible luxury jewellery made from high-quality materials. Each piece is created to inspire self-expression, allowing people to share their stories and passions through meaningful jewellery.

Pandora jewellery is sold in more than 100 countries through 6,800 points of sale, including more than 2,700 concept stores. Headquartered in Copenhagen, Denmark,

Pandora employs 37,000 people worldwide and crafts its jewellery using only recycled silver and gold.

Pandora is committed to leadership in sustainability and has set out to halve greenhouse gas emissions across its value chain by 2030. Pandora is listed on the Nasdaq Copenhagen stock exchange and generated revenue of DKK 31.7 billion (EUR 4.2 billion) in 2024.

Recognised by the Financial Times as one of Europe’s Best Workplaces and ranked #1 among Danish companies, Pandora is committed to building an inclusive and diverse workplace. We believe that reflecting the diversity of society in how we engage with our customers is essential to fulfilling our purpose: to give a voice to people’s loves. We are dedicated to nurturing a culture where everyone feels respected, valued, and empowered to thrive.