Vans: Marketplace Planner, Footwear

Vans is the original brand rooted in the authentic lifestyle of skateboarding. We are driven by our mission to inspire and empower everyone to live “Off The Wall” – embracing the youthful spirit of freedom, non-conformity, and relentless progression. Yesterday’s “Off The Wall” moment is today’s new normal, and at Vans, we believe in constantly outdoing ourselves. Together with our communities across the globe, our vision is to push culture forward because we believe that the pursuit of progression never ends. We are constantly inspired by the future generation of positive catalysts within our community.

So, before we get to the job details, take a minute to learn a little more about us – our values and our culture. If you can see yourself working side-by-side with a team of people who think and live “Off the Wall,” Vans just may be the place for you.

To learn more about our values and our culture, visit Vans Careers or www.vans.com.

What will you do?

As a Marketplace Planner - Footwear, you will optimize enterprise-level open to buy (OTB) strategies across the Americas, aligning financial plans with corporate objectives. You will collaborate with merchandising, finance, supply chain, and global teams to drive planning transformation, implementing new tools, analytics, and best practices for regional efficiency. This is a hybrid role, based in our office in Costa Mesa, California.

Let’s break down that day-in-the-life a bit more.

OTB & Financial Ownership – Owns and optimizes OTB strategy across key markets, aligning financial plans with corporate objectives while maximizing profitability and minimizing excess stock.

Executive-Level Influence & Process Improvement – Partners with key functions like merchandising, finance, supply chain, and global teams to drive business-wide planning transformation, implementing new tools, analytics, and best practices to enhance efficiency across global operations.

Regional Assortment - Analytically support the formulation of the Americas product assortment and the phases of product life cycle (preseason product line planning and in-season global trend analysis).

Sales Analytics – Supports reporting across Vans’ Americas markets, contrasting top-down plans to consolidation of data from multiple countries/channels to track demand trends across DTC stores/ecommerce, wholesale, and franchise.

Demand Planning – Develops and maintains demand forecasts for key Vans product categories, ensuring alignment with brand and global sales strategies. Topline, attribute, style/color level.

Cross-Functional Market Alignment – Works with regional merchandising, finance, and supply chain teams to align assortment and sales strategies across different consumer segments, factoring in key consumer moments, pricing strategies, and macroeconomic influences.

What do you need to succeed?

We all have unique skills that we bring to work and celebrate every day. For this role, there are foundation skills you’ll need to succeed and excel. Additionally, while formal education in a related field is great to have, we are most interested in your 3-5 years of experience and professional achievements.

The foundation skills you will need in this position are:

Planning experience in an Omni, Multiple Retail Concept environment.

Strong analytical and communication skills including the ability to read, analyze and interpret retail reports.

A proactive business management approach, completing all assignments and job duties in a timely manner.

Advanced computer skills including Excel and Word.

Now WE have a question for YOU.

Are you in?

Hiring Range: $73,440.00 USD - $91,800.00 USD annually

Incentive Potential: This position is eligible for additional compensation awards that may include an annual incentive plan, sales incentive, or commission potential. Specific details of the additional compensation eligibility for this position will be provided during the recruiting and interview process.

Benefits at VF Corporation: You can review a general overview of each benefit program offered, including this year's medical plan rates on www.MyVFbenefits.com and by clicking Looking to Join VF? Detailed information on your benefits will be provided during the hiring process.

Please note, our hiring ranges are determined and built from market pay data. In determining the specific compensation for this position, we comply with all local, state, and federal laws.

Pursuant to all applicable local Fair Chance Ordinance requirements, including but not limited to the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, VF will consider for employment qualified applicants with arrest and conviction records.