# Merchandise Planner

**Company**: Target
**Location**: Minneapolis, MN
**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 that inform the Inventory team's work to ensure that product supports projected sales. You will act as the hub between Merchandising and Supply Chain, creating a financial link between these two essential groups and having a voice in some of the most important decisions from a financial strategy standpoint.

Responsibilities:

- Provide in-season decision support and collaborate on assortment planning

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

- Lead demand forecasting and 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 to support 'chase-cancel' decisions and 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

- Flexibility, resilience, and comfort working in 'grey areas' that are constantly changing

Benefits:

- Competitive salary ($73,000 - $132,000 per year)

- Comprehensive health benefits and programs

- 401(k) and employee discount

- Short-term disability, long-term disability, paid sick leave, paid national holidays, and paid vacation

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## Skills

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

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