Find your opportunity
We are looking for brave summitteers who don´t want to stay put. Leave your footprint at Jack Wolfskin.
We Live to Discover
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
We Live to Discover
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
Jack Wolfskin lives to discover and encourages people to go on new outdoor adventures, connecting with nature and rewilding themselves. Through sustainable German engineered apparel, footwear and equipment that protects and inspires, we enable everyone to experience more moments of outdoor discovery. Our success is based on a shared wanderlust and the collective input from our team of free spirits, forward thinkers and discoverers. Sharing the same values, we focus on having a positive impact through product innovations, more sustainable solutions and business practices as well as advocacy programs.
We encourage an open forum of ideas throughout all departments and honor collaborative discoverers who lead by introducing new paths. A career with Jack Wolfskin is anything but ordinary.
We are looking for you as soon as possible in the area of DTC Merchandising & Planning at our headquarters in Idstein as DTC Manager Planning & Allocation (m/f/d).
The story begins
- Development and implementation of merchandise planning strategies to achieve sales, margin, and inventory targets for all product categories and channels.
- Close collaboration with the Retail Financial Planning Team.
- Driving inventory planning and management strategies to optimize stock levels, ensure availability of key products, and minimize excess stock and markdowns.
- Demand forecasting using historical data, trend analysis, and market information to predict sales and determine the correct stock levels.
- Utilization of all channels as needed to maximize full-price sell-through and margins.
- Collaboration with Supply Chain/Orderbook and Logistics teams to ensure timely delivery of products and effective stock replenishment, thus improving availability.
- Top-down planning of sales, OTB budgets, markdowns, and inventory (additional information: by month, store, category, product group).
- Alignment between top-down and bottom-up planning.
- Management of the order book and in-season management.
- Preparation of weekly/monthly reports.
- Detailed weekly analysis of seasonal performance.
- Creation of evaluation criteria for decision-making.
- Development of action plans for the season to achieve financial goals.
- Recommendation of markdowns and promotional measures.
- Continuous development of planning and BI reporting tools.
Your proven path
- Completed studies in business administration or equivalent education.
- At least 3 years of professional experience in a comparable position.
- Very good English skills, both written and spoken.
- Enthusiasm for working in an international environment.
- Independent, structured working style, flexible and motivated.
- Strong analytical and communication skills.
- Hands-on mentality and team spirit.
- Experience with financial planning tools.
- High motivation, team spirit, and flexibility.
We are an outdoor gear company and we act like it
- Exciting product world and international environment in a responsible and sustainable company.
- Flexible and hybrid working.
- Attractive employee discounts and additional company benefits.
- Free water, coffee, and tea specialties.
- Informal culture and casual dress code.
- Bike leasing, monthly subsidies for up to two leasing contracts.
- EGYM, corporate fitness with access to over 7,000 studios.
- Team events and sports activities in nature.
- Likeminded, our partner for mental health with many training opportunities.
- Mobile working from abroad, up to 4 weeks.
- Company language German and English, access to language courses.
- Employee referral program, cash bonuses after successful probation period.
Want to join us?
Join us and apply online at our career portal, stating your desired salary and earliest start date.
Get the best out of your application
Check out our application tips and make sure your application is on track.
We, at Jack Wolfskin, are offering you an exciting job opportunity in a continuously developing working environment with flat hierarchies, short decision-making paths and swift implementation.
Contact us
Do you have any questions about job vacancies, application processes, speculative applications or other topics? Please feel free to contact our HR specialists:
HR specialists
recruiting@jack-wolfskin.com Please note:
We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
Please note: We can only answer questions here and do not accept applications sent to this email address. Please submit applications online via our career portal. Email applications will not processed.
