Manager, Wholesale Merchandise Planning - Fenty Beauty (Finance)

Job Description

ABOUT KENDO

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. A play on the words "can do", 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. This shows up in everything we do and in what we stand for:

• "Can Do" Spirit: We work together to make our wildest dreams a reality: As entrepreneurs, we embrace optimism and find creative ways to reach our goals
• 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.
• Storytelling: We tell authentic stories like no, one else. It's our key to inspire trust and build relationships, rallying, our people, partners, and consumers around our brands.
• Resilience: We embrace challenges as opportunities. Change is ever- constant, and agility is our strength.
• Product Excellence: We put the consumers first: We constantly raise the bar to create products of the highest quality that everyone just has to have.

The salary range for this position is $105,700 - $132,200 per year based upon a San Francisco location. Offered salary is dependent upon experience and location. Kendo Total Rewards offerings also include an annual bonus and a comprehensive benefits package including: medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, a retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for two weeks during the calendar year and December wellness/shutdown week for applicable positions.

The Kendo house of brands currently includes: Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Fenty Eau de Parfum, Fenty Hair, Ole Henriksen, KVD Beauty, Lip Lab.

Position Summary

The Manager of Wholesale Merchandise Planning-Fenty Beauty owns the end-to-end financial plan for the North America wholesale channel-translating top-line brand strategies into channel-level sales targets. You lead monthly SKU- and account-level forecast reviews, build monthly and annual budgets, and drive retailer in-stock performance. Success requires commercial acumen, data-driven storytelling, and cross-functional leadership across Sales, Supply Chain, Brand, Demand Planning, and Finance.

Key Responsibilities

• Channel Planning & Account Management
  
  • Build top-down and bottom-up retail and wholesale plans by account, category, and SKU.
  • Collaborate with Sales and Brand teams to translate market opportunities into SKU-level assortment plans.
  • Shape bottoms-up account plans and steer the channel's monthly OTB.
  • Monitor weekly sell-out / stock-outs and coordinate with account merchants on corrective actions.
• Forecasting
  
  • Own monthly forecast reviews for channels, present sales forecast to leadership and recommend actions to chase demand or mitigate risk.
  • Work with Demand Planning on forecast consensus and escalate channel level exceptional demand.
  • Partner with Sales and Finance on promo, markdown, and RTV forecasts.
• Cross-functional Alignment
  
  • Work with Supply Chain on new product launch PO tracking and risk escalations.
  • Partner with Sales and Finance on Channel tops-down monthly & annual sales budgets.
  • Partner with Sales and Brand on Channel strategies.
• Analytics
  
  • Leverage advanced excel and enterprise planning tools (Anaplan) to elevate quality data insights.
  • Champion continuous improvement of forecasting methodologies & accuracy, data quality, and scenario modeling.
  • Foster a collaborative, innovative culture that shares best practices across merchandise planning.

Requirements

• Experience: 5+ years of merchandise planning, wholesale planning experience.
• Education: BA, BS in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Economics or related quantitative field.
• Technical Skills:
  
  • Strong proficiency in Excel (pivot table, power query, advanced functions).
  • Experience with an enterprise planning platform, Anaplan experience a plus.
• Core competencies:
  
  • Analytical problem-solving, scenario modeling, and data storytelling.
  • Negotiation and influencing skills with both internal partners and external retailers.
  • Ability to lead & thrive in fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities with tight deadlines.
  • Clear written and verbal communication, strong organizational discipline, high attention to detail and a growth mindset oriented toward process innovation.