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