Job Summary:

The Manager/Senior Planner is responsible for all aspects of demand planning, inventory management, assortment analysis and reporting. This is a great opportunity for an experienced planner to leverage outstanding analytical and quantitative skills as well as strength in communication and business knowledge in a dynamic multi-channel environment.

Roles and Responsibilities:

• Leads wholesale monthly re-forecast in partnership with global wholesale sales team for entire assortment (replenishment, new, discontinued, and placeholders) over a rolling 9–18-month period
• Develops strong relationships with merchandising, wholesale, product development and ecommerce teams to help improve forecast accuracy, communicate new line introductions, and product phase out decisions
• Oversees product life cycle management process (XPlant/ABC Codes) which serves as the main communication method for inventory planning/procurement
• Supports ecom demand forecast and inventory management
• Compiles monthly ecom orders (replenishment and new products)
• Tracks & Receives US ecom inventory PO’s; provides DC allocation and transportation method
• Analyzes and recommends optimal merchandise assortment plans for all sales channels: ecom, wholesale, and 3rd party ecommerce sales
• Supports process for product lifecycle strategy by collection in close partnership with marketing product development
• Designs and shares out product level reporting for various sales channels on a weekly/monthly/quarterly cadence to recommend and implement tactical actions to deliver the plans
• Participates in product development as appropriate to supplement available merchandise lines
• Monitors and evaluates the forecasted ecom sales and inventories to collaborate with marketing/site teams around Promotion and Demotion of SKUS
• Analyzes inventory productivity and recommends adjustments including a multi-channel markdown and promotional strategy and profitable exit strategies for discontinued and dead stock

Requirements:

• BA or BS degree

• 4+ years’ experience in wholesale/retail planning with ecom experience

• Experience in assortment/product lifecycle management

• Strong quantitative/analytical skills, including elements of markup, margin planning, open to buy, inventory productivity measures (WOS, T/O, GMROI)

• Proficient in Microsoft Office applications, including advanced Excel skills

• Detail oriented, multi-tasker, highly organized, flexible, and proactive

• Strategic thinker able to foresee future business opportunities and develop strategic process

• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, able to communicate and build relationships across different departments & levels of the company

• Knowledge of Just Enough, SAP, Looker, Google Analytics a plus