Kendo Senior Merchandise Planner

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

• Build bottom-up retail and wholesale plans by account, category, and SKU, and support the channel's top-down plan
• Partner with Sales and Brand to translate assortment direction into SKU-level plans
• Maintain account-level OTB and flag risks and opportunities to the planning lead
• Monitor weekly sell-out and stock-outs and coordinate corrective actions with account merchants
• Prepare and maintain monthly forecasts, identifying risks and opportunities and recommending actions to chase demand or mitigate risk
• Contribute to forecast consensus with Demand Planning and flag exceptional demand
• Partner with Sales and Finance on promo, markdown, and RTV forecasts
• Track new product launch POs with Supply Chain and escalate delivery risks
• Provide account-level inputs into monthly and annual sales budgets
• Support Sales and Brand on account and channel strategies
• Use advanced Excel and enterprise planning tools to build reporting and analysis
• Improve forecast accuracy, data quality, and scenario modeling
• Share best practices with the merchandise planning team

Qualifications

• 5+ years of merchandise planning or wholesale planning experience
• BA/BS in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Economics, or a related quantitative field
• Strong proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, Power Query, advanced functions)
• Experience with an enterprise planning platform (Anaplan preferred)
• Analytical problem-solving and scenario modeling capabilities
• Demonstrated data storytelling skills
• Negotiation and influencing skills with internal partners and account contacts

Skills

Experience

5+ years of merchandise planning or wholesale planning experience in the beauty, luxury, or consumer goods sectors.

Education

BA or BS in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Economics, or a related quantitative discipline.

Workplace

Compensation

The base compensation for this position ranges from USD 108,300 to USD 135,500 per annum.

Benefits

Annual bonus, medical, dental and vision insurance, flex paid time off program, parental leave, employee discount and perks, 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.

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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