Distribution Planning Lead

About Tiffany & Co.

Since its founding in 1837, Tiffany & Co. has become a renowned symbol of elegance and romance, famous for its iconic Blue Box and timeless luxury products. Now part of the world's largest luxury conglomerate, LVMH, Tiffany offers an environment to contribute meaningfully to a prestigious brand.

Role Overview

The Distribution Planning Lead will oversee daily tasks supporting distribution, sales, and inventory management across the South Asia Pacific region. This role centers on optimizing stock levels to maximize inventory usage and sales, serving as the liaison between retail locations, sales units, and merchandising teams.

Key Responsibilities

• Develop stock targets informed by inventory constraints, sales trends, merchandising strategies, and regional requirements.
• Track inventory across selling points to ensure optimal asset utilization and target attainment.
• Partner with merchandising to analyze and adjust allocations and assortment plans.
• Pinpoint and execute stock rebalancing within countries and the region to promote sales and inventory turnover.
• Support launches of new stores, product introductions, and promotional activities by ensuring appropriate stock distribution.
• Manage inventory for market events, overseeing movement between stores.
• Consolidate sales and backorder data across countries, collaborating with global and local markets.
• Optimize long-tail assortment, end-of-life items, and manage pullbacks or rebalancing to enhance stock coverage.
• Utilize reporting tools extensively for sales and inventory analytics, guiding decision-making and process improvements.
• Evaluate inventory availability with a regional perspective, responding swiftly to issues with actionable insights.
• Customize reports based on audience needs and summarize analytical findings.
• Innovate reporting methods to increase replenishment efficiency.
• Support supply chain leadership in refining processes and tools alongside local and central teams.
• Advance Anaplan tool development to boost store replenishment workflows.
• Collaborate with retail, logistics, and merchandising teams to streamline processes.
• Lead and drive strategic projects including ecommerce growth, omnichannel implementation, and POS system upgrades.
• Communicate regional status updates, business insights, and merchandising trends to partners.
• Promote a cooperative team culture by sharing inventory challenges and collaborating on solutions.
• Engage with stores to provide availability analyses and forecast stock recovery plans.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent qualification.
• Four to five years of experience in supply chain, sales, or inventory analysis within luxury or retail sectors.
• Advanced skills in Excel, VBA, Power BI, and other analytics/reporting platforms.
• Exceptional communication skills, both written and verbal, with diplomatic approach.
• Strong analytical capabilities and meticulous attention to detail.

Preferred Skills

• Familiarity with retail service center operations including Anaplan replenishment tools, order management systems (OMS), ERP, and POS solutions.