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About the Role

The Senior Merchandise Planner owns SKU- and account-level forecasting across wholesale accounts within the North America channel, translating channel targets into account-level plans. This role runs the monthly forecast process, builds supporting analysis, and collaborates with cross-functional partners to drive retailer in-stock performance. Success requires strong analytical skills, data-driven storytelling, and effective collaboration across Sales, Supply Chain, Brand, Demand Planning, and Finance.

Responsibilities

Build bottom-up retail and wholesale plans by account, category, and SKU, and support the channel's top-down plan.
Partner with Sales and Brand to translate assortment direction into SKU-level plans.
Maintain account-level OTB and flag risks and opportunities to the planning lead.
Monitor weekly sell-out and stock-outs and coordinate corrective actions with account merchants.
Prepare and maintain monthly forecasts, identifying risks and opportunities and recommending actions to chase demand or mitigate risk.
Contribute to forecast consensus with Demand Planning and flag exceptional demand.
Partner with Sales and Finance on promo, markdown, and RTV forecasts.
Track new product launch POs with Supply Chain and escalate delivery risks.
Provide account-level inputs into monthly and annual sales budgets.
Support Sales and Brand on account and channel strategies.
Use advanced Excel and enterprise planning tools (Anaplan) to build reporting and analysis.
Improve forecast accuracy, data quality, and scenario modeling.
Share best practices with the merchandise planning team.

Requirements

5+ years of merchandise planning or wholesale planning experience.
Strong proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, Power Query, advanced functions).
Experience with an enterprise planning platform, Anaplan a plus.
Analytical problem-solving, scenario modeling, and data storytelling.
Negotiation and influencing skills with internal partners and account contacts.
Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities against tight deadlines.
Clear written and verbal communication, strong organizational discipline, high attention to detail, and a growth mindset oriented toward process improvement.

Skills

Excel
Anaplan
Analytical problem-solving
Scenario modeling
Data storytelling
Negotiation
Influencing
Communication
Organizational discipline
Attention to detail
Growth mindset

Location

San Francisco

Work Type

Hybrid

Experience Level

Senior

Education Level

BA/BS in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Economics, or a related quantitative field

Salary/Compensations

$108,300 - $135,500 per year

Benefits

Annual bonus
Medical insurance
Dental insurance
Vision insurance
Flex paid time off program
Parental leave
Employee discount/perks
Retirement plan with employer contributions
Summer Fridays
Opportunity to work from anywhere for two weeks during the calendar year
December wellness/shutdown week

About the Company

Kendo Holdings, Inc. is a San Francisco-based beauty brand developer and wholesaler owned by LVMH Moët Hennessy - Louis Vuitton, the world’s largest luxury group.
Kendo has become the hub of creativity and next generation beauty product development for global Sephora channels and selective retailers outside of Sephora.
Through original development, collaborations and acquisitions the Kendo stable of brands will always be creative, inspiring and innovative.
A dynamic engine of speed, expertise and market-savvy, the Kendo team continues to redefine the beauty industry through great product, great storytelling, great retail and direct-to-consumer partnerships.
The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Eau de Parfum, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen, Lip Lab.

Equal Opportunity

Advocacy, Diversity, and Inclusion: We recognize and celebrate the full spectrum of personal identities. We create safe spaces so everyone’s voice is heard. We listen with humility and act with courage.