Product Lead Commercial Planning (m/f/d)

Your responsibilities

• Product Strategy: Define and communicate a clear product strategy for commercial planning, aligned with C&A’s business strategy, transformation objectives and commercial priorities.
• Commercial Planning Capability: Shape connected, end-to-end capabilities across merchandise financial planning and open-to-buy, assortment planning, pricing, allocation and replenishment.
• Value and Outcomes: Set measurable product outcomes and success metrics, ensuring investment is prioritised against customer, colleague and business value.
• Team Leadership: Build and lead high-performing product teams, creating clarity on outcomes, decision rights and priorities while coaching product managers and supporting their development.
• Business Discovery: Develop a deep understanding of planning processes, user needs, pain points and decision-making across markets and channels, using data and research to identify the highest-value opportunities.
• Product Delivery: Lead the product lifecycle from discovery and validation through delivery, adoption and continuous improvement, balancing strategic ambition with pragmatic incremental progress.
• Roadmap and Prioritisation: Own an outcome-led roadmap, making transparent prioritisation decisions based on strategic fit, value, evidence, dependencies, risk and delivery capacity.
• Cross-Functional Collaboration: Partner with Commercial, Merchandise Planning, Buying, Finance, Data, Engineering and supporting change teams to align operating processes, data, technology and adoption.
• Data and Decision Quality: Champion trusted data, clear planning logic and effective decision support, working with relevant teams to improve transparency, consistency and planning performance.
• Investment Management: Contribute to business cases, capacity and budget decisions, monitor value realisation and use performance evidence to guide further investment.
• Stakeholder Leadership: Create alignment among senior stakeholders, communicate progress, trade-offs, risks and decisions clearly, and provide effective product leadership within the wider transformation.

What you bring

• Extensive product management experience, including responsibility for complex digital products or portfolios and a strong record of delivering measurable business outcomes.
• Proven product leadership experience, with the ability to lead, coach and develop product managers and multidisciplinary teams.
• Deep retail commercial planning expertise in at least one core area—merchandise financial planning and open-to-buy, assortment planning, pricing, allocation or replenishment—and a strong understanding of how these capabilities connect across the commercial cycle.
• Strong commercial acumen, including an understanding of how planning decisions influence sales, margin, stock, availability and working capital.
• Experience implementing enterprise retail planning SaaS platforms, from business discovery and solution assessment through configuration, integration, testing, rollout and adoption.
• Experience introducing new planning capabilities and replacing legacy tools, including defining MVP scope, validating value, migrating users and data, and retiring superseded solutions.
• A strategic, user-centred and data-informed approach to discovery, prioritisation, experimentation and performance management.
• Strong structured problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn ambiguity into clear priorities, decisions and actionable product direction.
• Excellent communication, facilitation and stakeholder leadership skills, with the confidence to influence senior leaders and navigate competing priorities.
• Experience working across business, engineering and data teams in an agile product operating model; familiarity with enterprise planning platforms and retail data is an advantage.
• A bachelor’s degree in business, retail, technology or a related field, or equivalent relevant professional experience.

What we offer

This is an opportunity for you to join us on a truly exciting transformation journey, where you’ll be able to leave footprints that last and contribute significantly to our vision. As well as knowing that you played a key part in the evolution of one of Europe’s most recognisable retail brands, you will also enjoy:

● Countless learning and development opportunities via our C&A academy

● Access to Partner Discount Scheme

● An employee discount of 20% in C&A stores

● 30 days' vacation plus additional 3 days off

● Corporate pension scheme

● Mental health and wellness program

● An exciting job in an international and inspirational working environment

● A positive working atmosphere and a talented team with an open feedback culture.

C&A fosters equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are led by a gender-balanced board committed to build a diverse and inclusive organization where everyone can become their best self.

We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. We encourage people belonging to underrepresented groups to apply.

Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply and help us build an inclusive community.

C&A fosters equal opportunity for people of all backgrounds and identities. We are led by a gender-balanced board that is committed to building a diverse and inclusive organization where everyone can become their best self.

We do not discriminate based on age, disability, gender identity, sexual orientation, ethnicity, race, religion or belief, parental and family status, or any other protected characteristic. We welcome applications from women, men and non-binary candidates of all ethnicities and socio-economic backgrounds. We encourage people belonging to underrepresented groups to apply.

Even if you don't check every box, but see yourself contributing, please apply and help us build an inclusive community.

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Source: Statistisches Bundesamt (Destatis), table; dl-de/by-2-0; StarIn's calculation