# Merchandise Planner

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Minneapolis
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: mid
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $73,000.00 - $132,000.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

We are seeking a Merchandise Planner to join our team. As a Merchandise Planner, you will be responsible for conducting comparative analysis of holiday or other seasonal performance reports and providing insights to inform the Inventory team's work. You will create a financial link between Merchandising and Supply Chain, and have a voice in important decisions from a financial strategy standpoint.

Responsibilities:

- Conduct comparative analysis of holiday or other seasonal performance reports

- Provide insights to inform the Inventory team's work

- Create a financial link between Merchandising and Supply Chain

- Collaborate on assortment planning

- Recommend localization and channel strategies

- Lead demand forecasting

- Support the divisional strategy through category expertise and partnerships with cross-functional teams and vendors

- Head up the open-to-buy process and decide on category-level investment and financial validity of assortments

- Conduct root cause analysis for variation between supply and demand forecasts

- Communicate implications to vendors

- Conduct scenario planning, build unit plans, and lead initial set planning and operationalization to optimize assortments

- Interpret forecast results and conduct 'what if?' analysis to guide go-forward recommendations

- Validate the unit promo planning forecast, drive maintenance, risk analysis, and decision-making by the Pricing & Promotion Center of Excellence

- Run event forecast creation and flow, analyzing item lifecycles and driving recommendations on end-of-season management

Requirements:

- Four-year degree or equivalent experience

- 2-6 years of relevant experience

- 3+ years of Merchandising experience

- Strong strategic, financial, and analytical skills

- Ability to translate data from various sources into insights and recommendations

- Strong collaboration skills to partner with cross-functional teams

- Flexible, resilient, and comfortable working in 'grey areas' that are constantly changing

Benefits:

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k)

- Employee discount

- Short-term disability

- Long-term disability

- Paid sick leave

- Paid national holidays

- Paid vacation

## Skills

### Required
- financial analysis
- merchandising
- supply chain
- forecasting
- analytical skills

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