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About the Role
Shape Burberry’s global inventory strategy and lead Open to Buy planning across regions and channels. This role optimizes inventory, protects margin, and supports sustainable growth by integrating commercial insight, financial planning, and cross-functional expertise throughout the product lifecycle. You will also guide and develop a Planner.
Responsibilities
- Own global and regional Open to Buy planning across full-price stores, digital, outlet and wholesale, ensuring inventory and productivity assumptions support commercial priorities.
- Develop a long-term global inventory strategy across the product lifecycle, translating financial and commercial objectives into clear plans.
- Prepare and present Open to Buy recommendations to senior leadership, communicating complex analysis in a clear and compelling way.
- Partner with Finance, Merchandising, regional teams, Replenishment and Supply Chain to align revenue, procurement, margin and inventory targets.
- Identify sales, margin and inventory risks, recommending rebalancing, markdown and delist actions that improve sell-through and reduce exposure.
- Lead, coach and develop a Planner while encouraging collaboration, knowledge sharing and talent development across the planning community.
Requirements
- Substantial experience in global inventory or merchandise planning, with responsibility for complex commercial plans across multiple regions or channels.
- Strong knowledge of Open to Buy management, inventory productivity, stock turn, margin planning and forecasting.
- Confident communication and presentation skills, with the ability to turn detailed analysis into clear recommendations for senior stakeholders.
- A collaborative approach and the ability to build effective relationships across Finance, Merchandising, Planning, Replenishment and Supply Chain.
- Sound judgement, analytical capability and close attention to detail, combined with a practical approach to solving business challenges.
- Experience supporting the development of others and creating an inclusive, accountable and forward-thinking team environment.
About the Company
- At Burberry, we believe creativity opens spaces. Our purpose is to unlock the power of imagination to push boundaries and open new possibilities for our people, our customers and our communities.
- This is the core belief that has guided Burberry since it was founded in 1856 and is central to how we operate as a company today.
- We aim to provide an environment for creative minds from different backgrounds to thrive, bringing a wide range of skills and experiences to everything we do.
- As a purposeful, values-driven brand, we are committed to being a force for good in the world as well, creating the next generation of sustainable luxury for customers, driving industry change and championing our communities.
Equal Opportunity
- Burberry is an Equal Opportunities Employer and as such, treats all applications equally and recruits purely on the basis of skills and experience.