Dr. Martens is more than a brand — it’s a global icon with over 60 years of attitude, heritage, and cultural impact. We’re a thriving, values-driven business powered by diverse thinkers, bold doers, and people who bring their whole selves to work. If you’re ready to make your mark, you’re in the right place.
At DM, our values guide everything we do: Be Yourself, Act Courageously, Show You Care. They’re not just words — they’re how we turn passion into progress.
WHERE YOU SIT
As our Product Junior Planner, you’ll be part of the Product Planning & Allocation team, working closely with brilliant people across the business and reporting into DTC Product Planning Manager. You’ll be right at the heart of fast-moving projects that shape how we show up for our consumers — today and tomorrow.
WHERE YOU CONTRIBUTE
The DTC Product Junior Planner plays a key role in optimising product availability and supporting profitable growth across Direct-to-Consumer channels. The role combines seasonal planning, in-season trading and cross-functional collaboration to ensure assortments meet consumer needs while aligning with global frameworks. It is responsible for robust forecasting, effective inventory decisions and clear commercial recommendations that maximise full-price sell-through and stock efficiency
Core Accountabilities
- Seasonal Planning: Lead seasonal planning for assigned product categories, creating sales and production plans by product, region and channel and presenting proposals at seasonal sign-off meetings.
- Forecasting & Reforecasting: Own monthly reforecasts at product and market level, ensuring alignment with current trading, future demand and strategic objectives. Provide feedback to management on actions taken. Review and update size curves based on performance.
- Trading & Reporting: Co-own weekly trade reporting, ensuring outputs are accurate, commercially focused and translated into clear actions. Prepare seasonal performance and sign-off materials.
- Stock & Inventory Management: Partner with Supply & Demand to review carryover buy recommendations and ensure production plans support newness and continuity availability across channels.
- Logistics & Availability Oversight: Work alongside the Product Admin Assistants on intake, warehouse and stock-flow activity, providing direction on priorities, resolving risks and ensuring availability plans remain on track.
- E-commerce & Peak Item Coverage: Lead the E-commerce item-coverage approach for assigned categories, including peak strategy, availability priorities and decisions on where depth should be protected or redirected.
- Cross-Functional Collaboration: Work closely with Allocation, E-commerce, Marketing, Supply & Demand, Retail Operations and Product teams to ensure effective execution of product and trading plans.
- Analysis & Projects: Deliver ad hoc analysis and contribute to cross-functional projects that improve planning processes, product decisions and ways of working.
- Product Admin Management: Manage the Product Admin Assistants on a day-to-day basis, setting priorities, providing guidance and supporting their development, without formal direct-report responsibility.
KEY SKILLS & CAPABILITIES
- Commercial Acumen: Ability to balance consumer demand, product availability, inventory efficiency and margin objectives.
- Planning & Forecasting Experience: Previous hands-on experience in a product planning, merchandising or forecasting role is essential. Practical experience building and maintaining sales forecasts and reforecasts at SKU or product level is required.
- Product Experience: Experience planning a broad product mix, including newness, continuity/core and multi-SKU ranges.
- Analytical Skills: Advanced Excel capability and confidence working with large datasets, detailed forecasts and performance reporting.
- Planning & Organisation: Strong ownership of seasonal and monthly planning cycles, with the ability to prioritise effectively in a fast-paced environment.
- Communication: Ability to present clear recommendations, explain the commercial rationale and build effective stakeholder relationships.
- Leadership: Ability to manage the Product Admin Assistants day to day, support their development and lead workstreams effectively.
- Problem-Solving: Proactive approach to resolving forecast, stock-flow and trading challenges.
- Consumer-Centric Mindset: Awareness of local market trends and consumer behaviour, translating insight into product and forecast decisions.
- Adaptability: Comfortable managing multiple priorities and responding to changing business needs.
- Systems Proficiency: Practical experience using product planning and forecasting tools, alongside strong Excel capability; able to work confidently with existing planning processes from the outset.
WHAT’S IN IT FOR YOU?
- Hybrid working- 3 days in the office
- Free pair of docs when you join
- Buy as you Earn’ Share scheme
- 65% off all Docs
- Private healthcare
- 2 paid volunteer days per year
READY TO FILL YOUR BOOTS?
If you’re excited to own your impact, shape the future of an iconic brand, and grow your career in a place that champions individuality — we’d love to hear from you.
At Dr. Martens, we are committed to creating an environment in which we can all be our best and bring our authentic selves to work. We encourage applications, regardless of race, colour, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, age, veteran status, or disability. Diverse and inclusive teams have a positive impact on our brand; helping us speak authentically to our consumers. We strive to develop a business where our people can thrive and feel empowered to express themselves. Because we believe everyone should feel supported and included whatever their role in the Dr. Martens community.
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