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About the Role

Pattern accelerates brands on global ecommerce marketplaces leveraging proprietary technology and AI. The Senior Merchandise Planner will drive efficient and sustainable growth across European brands through effective demand planning, inventory management, and automation-led forecasting. This role ensures sales forecasts and buy plans drive demand, linking buy-in to sell-out, increasingly powered by algorithmic and automated planning tools. It is a pivotal role in the European Team, ensuring best practice merchandising processes and scalable automation are implemented in alignment with the Global strategy.

Responsibilities

Owns the forecasting, planning and inventory management for a defined portion of the European Brand Portfolio.
Drives alignment across commercial trading functions, inputting into annual, quarterly and monthly budgets in partnership with Ecommerce and Finance.
Maintains WSSI forecasts and quantifies divergence from JBP.
Uses data, statistical models and algorithmic tools to ensure accurate stock and sales projections.
Proactively identifies trends, risks and opportunities and continuously refines automated forecasting logic.
Uses trading levers such as swap and return negotiations, EOL MD management and promotional planning to achieve inventory position, revenue and margin targets.
Leverages automated replenishment rules to optimise decision-making at scale.
Provides analytical and actionable insights into forecast deviations and future implications.
Works collaboratively to identify and implement solutions, including opportunities to further automate manual planning processes.
Presents to external clients, leading discussions around Buying Strategy & Sell In-Sell Out forecasts across new and emerging marketplaces.
Oversees category intake, managing OTB, ordering and selection processes.
Ensures optimum inventory health, with 95%+ availability on core ranges and targeted sell through on seasonal areas.
Works closely with brands to ensure order fulfilment and supply chain efficiencies.
Aligns with Ecommerce management on ordering strategies implemented by the inventory management team.
Drives operational excellence through collaboration with key stakeholders and ownership of innovation projects.
Helps to design, test and implement reporting and tech improvements as a core member of the Replenishment & Automation Pod.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree.
6+ years and a track record of progression in a multi-category/brand merchandising or planning role.
Experience in Demand and Supply Chain Planning.
In-depth understanding of merchandising and trading approach.
Previous experience working with an eCommerce channel (eg. D2C or Marketplace).
Highly Commercial mindset, considering both the customer and business needs.
Genuine motivation, curiosity and a desire for a new challenge.
Comfortable adopting AI tools to support forecasting, planning and reporting workflows.
Ability to be clear, concise and specific when explaining a point.
Prepared to talk about professional accomplishments with specific data to quantify examples.
Ready to talk about how you can add value and be the best addition to the team.
Focus on mentioning how you would make a difference at Pattern.
Prepared to discuss your experience building new channels or functions, and what you learned along the way.

Skills

AI tools
Data analysis
Forecasting
Inventory management
Demand planning
Supply chain planning
Merchandising
Trading
Reporting

Location

Europe

Work Type

Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office Tues-Thurs)

Experience Level

Senior
6+ years

Education Level

Bachelor’s degree

Salary/Compensations

Competitive salary

Benefits

28 days Holiday (increasing to 32 days with each year of service)
Competitive salary
Hybrid working (3 days a week in the office Tues-Thurs)
Private Medical Insurance
Enhanced Pension Scheme
Enhanced Maternity and Paternity leave and pay
Nursery Scheme
Cycle to Work Scheme
Regular company socials

About the Company

Pattern accelerates brands on global ecommerce marketplaces leveraging proprietary technology and AI.
Utilising more than 66 trillion data points, sophisticated machine learning and AI models, Pattern optimizes and automates all levers of ecommerce growth for global brands, including advertising, content management, logistics and fulfillment, pricing, forecasting and customer service.
Hundreds of global brands depend on Pattern’s ecommerce acceleration platform every day to drive profitable revenue growth across 60+ global marketplaces—including Amazon, Walmart.com, Target.com, eBay, Tmall, TikTok Shop, JD, and Mercado Libre.
Pattern offers big opportunities to make a difference in the ecommerce industry!
We are a company full of talented people that evolve quickly and often.
We set big goals, work tirelessly to achieve them, and we love our Pattern community.
We also believe in having fun and balancing our lives.

Equal Opportunity

Game Changers - A game changer is someone who looks at problems with an open mind and shares new ideas with team members, regularly reassesses existing plans and attaches a realistic timeline to goals, makes profitable, productive, and innovative contributions, and actively pursues improvements to Pattern’s processes and outcomes.
Data Fanatics - A data fanatic is someone who recognises problems and seeks to understand them through data, draws unbiased conclusions based on data that lead to actionable solutions, and continues to track the effects of the solutions using data.
Partner Obsessed - An individual who is partner obsessed clearly explains the status of projects to partners and relies on constructive feedback, actively listens to partner’s expectations, and delivers results that exceed them, prioritises the needs of your partners, and takes the time to create a personable experience for those interacting with Pattern.
Team of Doers - Someone who is a part of a team of doers uplifts team members and recognises their specific contributions, takes initiative to help in any circumstance, actively contributes to supporting improvements, and holds themselves accountable to the team as well as to partners.