Assortment Planner

As Assortment Planner at LIEWOOD, you will play a key role in shaping our product offering across categories, channels, and markets.

Your core responsibility will be to develop, deliver, and maintain data-driven assortment plans for seasonal collections, capsules, and our ESSENTIALS "always-on" program - ensuring a relevant, profitable, and brand-aligned product mix.

You will tailor assortments for specific customer segments, price architectures, and market needs, supporting both B2B and D2C strategies, while driving exclusive and region-specific product initiatives.

Working closely with Design, Buying, Merchandising, Commercial, and Marketing, you will leverage insights from sales and market data to optimize the product range, identify growth opportunities, and support go-to-market execution.

This role combines strategic planning with hands-on execution - ideal for someone who thrives on balancing analytical precision with creative, commercial thinking.

You will be based at our Copenhagen HQ, joining a collaborative, design-driven, and ambitious brand in a pivotal stage of growth.

The position is a maternity cover (10-12m)

Key Responsibilities

Assortment & Range Planning

• Develop and maintain assortment plans for seasonal collections, capsules, and the ESSENTIALS range, ensuring consistency across categories and seasons.
• Create tailored assortments for different markets, segments, and channels (B2B and D2C), balancing brand expression and commercial performance.
• Analyze historical performance, market data, and trends to inform future collection planning and identify assortment gaps or opportunities.
• Establish target RRPs and price ladders, ensuring competitive positioning and alignment with margin and profitability goals.
• Collaborate with the Head of Category & GTM to align assortment strategy with overall category direction, product lifecycle, and commercial priorities.

Collection Planning & Execution

• Contribute to annual and seasonal collection frameworks, supporting the full yearly collection cycle in coordination with cross-functional teams.
• Partner with Design and Buying to ensure assortments reflect market demand, brand values, and pricing strategy.
• Participate in S&OP (Sales & Operations Planning) processes to ensure efficient planning and execution across departments.
• Provide data-driven assortment recommendations for GTM (Go-to-Market) strategies and sales tools.

Analysis, Reporting & Insights

• Deliver actionable insights through sales, margin, and performance analysis, enabling informed decision-making for future assortments.
• Prepare and present data-backed recommendations to senior leadership and key stakeholders.
• Continuously monitor product, market, and consumer trends to maintain a competitive and relevant offering.

Required Qualifications & Skills

• Strong analytical mindset with proven experience in data-driven assortment or merchandise planning.
• Advanced proficiency in Excel; experience with BI tools (e.g., Power BI) is a plus.
• Solid understanding of product, brand, and market dynamics, ideally within fashion, lifestyle, or consumer goods.
• Excellent cross-functional collaboration and stakeholder management skills.
• Proven ability to balance strategic thinking with operational execution.
• Strong commercial acumen and understanding of pricing, margin, and profitability drivers.
• Clear and confident communication and presentation skills.
• Positive, proactive attitude with a structured, detail-oriented working style.

What We Offer

• A unique opportunity to combine
  strategy and execution
  in a design-led, fast-growing brand.
• Exposure to both
  B2B and D2C commercial models
  , influencing assortment strategy across multiple markets.
• Collaborative culture, working closely with design, commercial, and leadership teams.
• Based at our Copenhagen HQ, in an inspiring and international environment.

About LIEWOOD

LIEWOOD is a leading Scandinavian children's lifestyle brand, blending minimalist design, functionality, and sustainability across categories such as mealtime, playtime, interior, nursery, apparel, footwear, and accessories. With a strong foothold in Europe and rapid expansion into APAC, we continue to deliver high-quality, functional, and beautifully designed products that enrich families' everyday lives.

ABOUT US

Founded in Copenhagen in 2015 by Anne Marie Lie Norvig, LIEWOOD is a result of Anne Marie´s strong passion for design, aesthetics, and the belief that beauty lies in the details. Being a mother of growing children, Anne Marie understands the needs and premises of daily life in a family. After all, this is what reflects the heart and soul of LIEWOOD.

Our Story – Liewood

With a focus on functionality and innovation, LIEWOOD designs and produces toys, interior, furniture, accessories, wear and footwear for babies and children all which are made with aesthetics, quality, and consciousness in mind. Exactly the core values that make LIEWOOD the fun and fair choice.

Our Philosphy – Liewood

Children are our future. And for them to evolve and create new paths that improve our world – both humans and planet – we must be thoughtful and make responsible, conscious choices, that reduce our imprint on the planet. Day by day, we strive to improve our processes and use of materials, however, we realize that this is an ongoing journey for us, and we will keep pursuing to become better.

LIEWOOD is an equal opportunity employer devoted to creating and maintaining an inclusive environment empowering every employee to do their best. As such, recruitment is always based solely on personal, business, and professional circumstances, and recruitment, promotion, and dismissals are never affected by race, sexual orientation, age, ethnic or social origin, gender, religion, race, social background, political affiliations, or opinions or the like that could give rise to discrimination.

Our responsible journey – Liewood

As a LIEWOOD colleague you will work from our beautiful office in Copenhagen, designed by NORM architects.

We strive to create an inclusive and open company culture, benefitting from a diverse group of high-performance people.