Jobs at New Balance

Leads EMEA seasonal category planning across wholesale, DTC, and e-commerce channels. Owns sales targets, assortment and investment frameworks, go-to-market planning, in-season trading, inventory health, sell-through, forecasting, market intelligence, and post-season reviews. Partners with Brand, Merchandising, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Supply Chain while managing and developing a category planning team.

Owns the EMEA regional demand plan for assigned product categories, developing item-level forecasts, analyzing sales and shipment data, and improving forecast accuracy. The role supports S&OP, scenario planning, product lifecycle management, and Go-To-Market activities while collaborating with Merchandising, Sales, Marketing, Finance, and Inventory Planning. It also drives continuous improvement in demand planning processes, tools, reporting, and cross-functional business alignment.

Owns Marketplace P&L month-end accounting, forecasting, budgeting, and long-term planning. Partners with business leaders by providing performance commentary, KPI analysis, management reporting, financial models, and commercial insights for marketplace launches and strategic decisions. Supports audits, tax reviews, and broader EMEA management and commercial accounting activities while maintaining accurate and timely reporting.

Provides operational HR support across Benelux, Nordic countries, the UK, and Ireland. Advises managers and associates on policies, employee relations, absence, employment law, onboarding, offboarding, compliance, and HR processes. Maintains Workday and HR documentation, manages HR inquiries, supports training, reporting, engagement initiatives, and HR projects, while ensuring consistent practices across corporate and retail environments.

Supervise daily retail store operations by opening and closing the store, supporting management and back-of-house standards, coaching associates, achieving KPIs, delivering excellent customer service, and maintaining health, safety, and company procedures. The role also supports commercial performance, team development, and flexible weekend and holiday coverage.

Leads New Balance’s EMEA Commercial Planning function, establishing planning standards, forecasting processes, reporting, and governance across markets and channels. Oversees pre-season planning, commercial intelligence, inventory and sell-through analysis, in-season performance actions, and account planning. Builds and develops a high-performing, cross-border planning team while partnering with Sales, Finance, Merchandising, Marketing, and Customer Service to drive data-informed growth and organizational transformation.

Provide hands-on HR advisory and operational support across multiple South European countries, serving corporate and retail employees. Advise managers on policies, employee relations, absence, leave, and employment law; manage onboarding, offboarding, documentation, compliance checks, HR inboxes, and Workday data. Support reporting, training, engagement initiatives, HR projects, and office administration while maintaining confidentiality and consistent practices.

Partners with senior European Commercial Wholesale leaders to develop and execute people strategies across 15 countries. Advises on talent, organizational design, change management, compensation, learning and development, succession, workforce planning, performance, and culture. Coaches leaders, supports HR teams and centers of expertise, uses people analytics to inform decisions, champions DE&I and wellbeing, and leads cross-country HR initiatives while accounting for local employment requirements.

Design, build, and support global EDI, API and MFT integrations. Develop custom connectors and middleware, ensure security and scalability, monitor performance, collaborate with stakeholders and third parties, and optimize existing integrations.

Owns regional last-mile execution, stabilization, and adoption of global enterprise products and ISV solutions. The role triages complex operational and integration issues, diagnoses root causes, coordinates global, regional, and vendor teams, validates releases, supports go-lives, and improves operational reliability. It also partners with business stakeholders, contributes requirements and testing feedback, supports training and documentation, and drives adoption of platforms such as Microsoft Dynamics 365 Finance & Operations.