Planning and Buying Analyst - Montréal, Canada - Lamour Hosiery

Lamour Hosiery

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Montréal, Canada

1 week ago

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About Us

Familyowned and operated since 1953, Lamour Inc. has earned its reputation as the "Best in Class" choice for socks, performance wear, hosiery and intimates. In fact, we are among the top 5 global players in base layer active wear, the #1 global seamless manufacturer, & one of Canada's leading sock manufacturers. As a onestop shop, we work innovatively and passionately to deliver outstanding quality and value to a diversified international customer base. It is our focus on performance fabric technology and product innovation, investment in manufacturing excellence, speed to market, and supply chain execution that allows us to build meaning, strong, and longlasting retail partnerships across multiple trade channels._

Planning and Buying Analyst

The Planning and Buying Analyst manages all inline activity information relating to the customers and products under his/her responsibility in order to establish sales forecasts.

This role creates and maintains forecast models for customers by incorporating business intelligence and forecast information gathered from the sales portals, and other sources, including customer data.

He/she proposes mid
- and long-term sales projections, follows them up and conducts variance analyses to mitigate the organization's financial risk exposure.

Tasks include (not limited to):

Weekly preparation of reports detailing performance and profitability of product for various accounts
Build and maintain analytical models in support of key decisions around plan, forecast and other strategic decisions
Interpret and summarize results of reports and analysis;
Develop demand forecasts (operational forecasts) at multiple levels and for multiple time horizons as part of a demand planning function;
Review historical sales trends, prepare forecast data, develop statistical forecast models, and evaluate and monitor forecast results;
Buy quantities according to needs and forecast models
Recap, analyze and communicate actual to plan results with recommendations for forecasting open to buy
Prepare and participate in weekly/monthly meetings on the planning process
Communicate regularly with production and sourcing teams regarding orders, shipment, ETA dates
Be on the lookout to continuously improve tools, data sources, data quality and analytical methods in order to refine various aspects of the analysis of demand and operational needs.

Skills and Experience:

35 years of experience in planning in the retail/wholesale industry
Strong attention to detail
Strong analytical aptitudes, must be precise and rigorous
Builds strong business relationships within team and across functional departments
Proven analytical, problem solving and organizational skills.
Strong interpersonal skills, flexible and approachable, works well in a team.
Ability to manage priorities and deadlines

What we offer: