Kendo Senior Manager, Global Planning

About Kendo

Kendo is a dynamic beauty brand incubator within the LVMH family, renowned for creating and scaling distinctive names that shape contemporary prestige beauty. Since its founding in 2010, the company has combined entrepreneurial agility with the resources and standards of a global luxury group, fostering brands such as Fenty Beauty, Fenty Skin, Ole Henriksen, and KVD Beauty. As an employer, Kendo offers an inventive, fast-moving environment where creativity, commercial rigor, inclusivity, and digital fluency converge. Its teams are encouraged to challenge convention, build culturally resonant products, and contribute to a portfolio defined by innovation, authenticity, and global ambition.

Role & Responsibilities

• Partner with Sr. Director to define and elevate best-in-class newness and long-range category planning for Fenty Verse brands
• Lead development of 3-year core and newness plans in partnership with Brand, Finance, and regional leads, ensuring alignment to strategic and financial objectives
• Own global newness forecast process across all regions, driving consistency in timing and planning inputs
• Translate brand strategy and market opportunity into actionable planning recommendations that support growth and profit
• Own global planning across Fenty Verse through rigorous pre-season forecasting, in-season analysis, and forecast refinement
• Analyze market trends, historical sales, and launch productivity to inform forecasts and optimize plans for new product launches
• Apply both bottoms-up and tops-down methodologies to develop accurate and actionable sales forecasts
• Establish and drive continuous improvement in forecast accuracy by monitoring actuals, identifying variances, and recommending corrective actions
• Serve as the central planning partner across Supply Chain, Brand, Project Management, Finance, and regional teams
• Work closely with Brand Management to understand product and marketing strategies, ensuring planning supports brand vision, revenue targets, and launch priorities
• Surface key business risks and opportunities to leadership, acting as a strategic thought partner and the planning eyes and ears of Fenty Verse
• Oversee reporting and distribution of key planning outputs to cross-functional teams, providing clear insights into business performance and forecast accuracy
• Lead the enhancement and implementation of planning tools, systems, and processes to improve efficiency, visibility and planning rigor
• Ensure planning tools and files are maintained and optimized to support the global planning process
• Manage and develop a direct report by setting clear objectives, providing ongoing coaching, and supporting professional growth
• Foster a high-performance team environment grounded in accountability, collaboration, and continuous improvement
• Lead and facilitate high-impact meetings that prioritize decisions and alignment over status updates

Qualifications

• Minimum 7+ years of planning experience with people management experience
• Strong understanding of retail math (Comp, Margin, etc.) and how to influence metrics
• Advanced Excel skills and strong proficiency in MS Office
• Experience with planning tools/systems preferred
• Strong analytical, problem-solving, and organizational skills
• Strong executive communication and presentation skills with proven ability to distill complex data into clear headlines
• Strong leadership presence, inspiring trust and credibility across global cross-functional teams and executive stakeholders
• Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced, evolving environment
• Ability to work independently and collaboratively across cross-functional and regional teams
• Flexible, proactive, and team-oriented mindset
• Availability to attend conference calls with international markets (early mornings/late evenings) when needed

Skills

Experience

Minimum 7+ years of planning experience with people management experience; wholesale experience a plus.

Education

BA/BS preferred.

Workplace

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 127,100 to USD 155,200 per annum.

Benefits

Annual bonus, medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount/perks, retirement plan with employer contributions, Summer Fridays, opportunity to work from anywhere for two weeks during the calendar year, December wellness/shutdown week.

Culture

Kendo offers a fast-moving, entrepreneurial culture where brand builders, creatives, and beauty experts collaborate to develop distinctive global beauty brands. As part of the LVMH ecosystem, it combines the agility of an independent incubator with the standards, resources, and international perspective of a luxury group. The environment values innovation, inclusivity, commercial excellence, and hands-on ownership at every level.

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