# Senior Merchandise Planner

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Minneapolis, MN
**Work arrangement**: hybrid
**Experience**: senior
**Job type**: full-time
**Salary**: $95,000.00 - $171,000.00
**Category**: Finance
**Industry**: Retail

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## Description

The Senior Merchandise Planner role involves conducting comparative analysis of seasonal performance reports, providing insights to the Inventory team, and creating a financial link between Merchandising and Supply Chain.

Key responsibilities include:

- Providing in-season decision support and collaborating on assortment planning

- Recommending localization and channel strategies, including cluster types and profiles

- Leading demand forecasting and supporting divisional strategy through category expertise

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

- Conducting root cause analysis for variations between supply and demand forecasts

- Interpreting forecast results and conducting 'what-if?' analysis to guide recommendations

The role requires strong strategic, financial, and analytical skills, as well as collaboration skills to partner with cross-functional teams.

Target offers a competitive salary range of $95,000.00 - $171,000.00, comprehensive health benefits, 401(k), employee discount, short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation.

## Skills

### Required
- strategic planning
- financial analysis
- analytical skills
- collaboration
- forecasting
- assortment planning

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