About the Role
As a Planner within Franchise & Regional Account Planning, you will support the development and execution of financial strategies across LATAM, spanning a multi-brand portfolio which includes Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, and Athleta. This role is critical to enabling profitable growth across the region. You will play a key role in improving forecast accuracy, strengthening data integrity, and evolving planning tools and processes. As an individual contributor, you will act as a strategic partner to franchise teams and internal stakeholdersādriving planning rigor, and embedding best-in-class forecasting, OTB, and in-season management practices across all channels.
What You'll Do
Strategic & Financial Planning
- Support top-down retail sales and wholesale buy targets, managing OTB and ROS across annual budgets and rolling forecasts.
- Support store productivity and real estate decisions through financial benchmarking, tiering, and density analysis.
- Contribute to the rollout of standardized store tiering and benchmark playbooks to enable consistent, data-driven decisions.
- Support LRP, ABP, and in-year business development to define how LATAM delivers against Franchise growth goals.
In-Season Management
- Drive weekly and monthly trade analysis, using OTB and in-season levers to optimize performance.
- Supports reforecasting, proactively identifying risks and opportunities and translating them into clear actions.
- Partner with Merch Planning to optimize inventory and maximize revenue.
- Deliver hindsight analyses focused on store productivity, NSR improvement, and profitability drivers.
Regional & Partner Collaboration
- Act as a strategic partner to franchise teams, strengthening planning capabilities and financial acumen.
- Challenge forecasts, resolve data inconsistencies, and elevate planning discipline across partners.
- Support onboarding to planning tools, OTB frameworks, and forecasting best practices.
- Deliver clear, actionable insights to Franchise Leadership Teams, connecting performance to key business drivers.
Data, Tools & Platform Enablement
- Ensure data integrity and reporting consistency, driving a single source of truth.
- Partner with Reporting and Tech teams to scale Power BI capabilities and transition manual processes into automated solutions.
- Support evolution of partner-facing planning tools, including channel-level forecasting and OTB.
- Identify and implement process improvements that increase speed, accuracy, and insight generation.
Cross-Functional Leadership
- Collaborate with Merchandising, Pricing, and Commercial teams to drive profitable channel strategies.
- Influence decisions through scenario analysis, financial modeling, and data storytelling.
- Contribute to broader planning initiatives, including tools, processes, and ways of working.
- Champion a culture of curiosity, ownership, and continuous improvement.
Who You Are
- Bachelorās degree or equivalent experience
- 2+ years in merchandise or retail financial planning
- Franchise/wholesale and eCommerce experience preferred
- Must be fluent in Spanish
- LATAM exposure
- Demonstrates strong ability to navigate ambiguity while effectively prioritizing tasks and managing time in a fastāpaced environment
- Strong understanding of retail KPIs (sales, margin, inventory, forecasting)
- Advanced Excel and experience with BI tools (Power BI, Tableau)
- Experience in scenario planning and financial modeling
- Strong communication and data storytelling skills
- Ability to influence without direct authority
- Highly organized, adaptable, and comfortable with ambiguity
- Willingness to work across time zones and travel as needed