About the company
Established in 1970, Browns Fashion began with an iconic boutique at the heart of London. The brand was acquired by Farfetch in 2015, and today operates its flagship Browns Brook Street store, in Mayfair, and the online commerce www.brownsfashion.com.
Responsibilities
- Analytics:
- Pre-season: Analysing the prior season’s trade, identifying areas of success and opportunities as lessons learned for the next season, to share with the brand/boutique to support their seasonal planning and secure optimal supply for the Farfetch customer.
- In-season: analyse brand’s trade at a region, category, customer, product level to provide action-driven performance insights to identify opportunities for maximising sales.
- Support Farfetch commercial trade meetings by supplying relevant insights and updates on brand and category performance.
- Develop dashboards and automated reports (working with our BI team) to keep track of sales and stock performances at different levels (brand, category, regions..).
- Support strategic initiatives such as our next day delivery program, guiding brands on the right products for the program.
- Planning:
- Support the Business Plan process: provide annual forecasts and stretch levers to reach and exceed sales targets, using excel models and other analytical techniques.
- Develop tracking tools to understand sales position vs projection and influence dedicated actions.
- Provide recommendations for OTB planning for specific brand partners and boutiques.
- Monitor stock to ensure it is in line to reach targets and unlock constraints.
- Provide ideal assortment sizes and quality for key initiatives such as exclusive capsules, next day delivery and other strategic initiatives.
Requirements
- Experience working in merchandise Seasonal Demand & Supply Planning and Analytics or Consulting, ideally in the industry.
- Great understanding and knowledge of the fashion and luxury industry.
- Excellent planning, analytics, organisational and quantitative problem-solving skills and strong attention to detail.
- Experience in forecasting sales using excel modelling techniques.
- Strategic thinker with an emphasis on operational and commercial excellence.
- Flexible, approachable attitude with good problem-solving skills.
- Comfortable dealing with ambiguity and scoping work focus.
- Comfortable working to deadlines in a fast-paced environment.
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills, translating complex analytical findings into presentable formats (e.g., PowerPoint slides).
- Technical skills for processing and analysing large amounts of data: Advanced Excel (required), SQL (preferred), experience with a BI Platform (Power BI, Looker or similar), experience with PowerPoint.
Conditions
- Employee Pension Scheme
- Flexible Benefits Program
- Health Insurance & Critical Illness cover
- Flexible work environment (3 days a week in office, 2 days WFH)