Associate Merchandise Planner
LA Office - Los Angeles, CA 90021
Overview
Salary Range $70,000.00 - $78,000.00 Salary Position Type Full Time Education Level 4 Year Degree Category Strategy - Planning
Description
The Associate Merchandise Planner is responsible for pre- and in-season planning of sales and inventory. This includes planning inventory to hit target in-stock levels while minimizing overstocks, tracking & reporting results to management and working closely with cross-functional teams to maximize the business. They are also expected to use analytics to solve complex problems.
Schedule: This is a Hybrid role working out of our LA Office 3 days a week (Tues-Thurs).
What You'll Do
- Take a leading role in managing inventory and work toward creating a collaborative, innovative and results-oriented environment with cross-functional teams.
- Balance workload priorities across in-season and pre-season planning deliverables to ensure successful execution of inventory management (including buy planning, pre-season forecasting and bi-weekly re-forecasting).
- Reconcile top-down & bottoms-up department plans to division plans and forecasts.
- Analyze pre-season plan and merchandising strategies for significant changes against last year.
- Conduct weekly sales analysis and recommend products that need to be taken to markdown.
- Create category level quarterly hindsight reports to drive strategic assortment decisions for future quarters and in-season management.
- Own and drive the OTB actualization process monthly.
- Identify and communicate tool and process improvement opportunities to the Manager of Merchandise Planning.
- Provide support to leadership on special projects as needed.
- Conduct ad-hoc analysis and reporting as needed.
What You'll Need
- 2+ years of retail apparel planning, allocation, or analytical experience.
- Strong Microsoft Excel skills.
- Strong analytical skills and ability to understand financial metrics and reporting.
- Detail oriented.
- Ability to problem solve and make effective decisions.
- Cultivate strong working relationships across multiple cross-functional partners to ensure business success.
- Demonstrate an ability to set objectives and goals and organize work appropriately to meet and exceed his/her goals.
- Anticipate risks and identify contingency plans and processes to prevent disruptions when risks occur.
- Demonstrate strong listening, written and oral communication skills.
Nice to Have - Bonus Points!
- Bachelor's degree required (in Business or Finance preferred).
We're ready to meet you! Come help us achieve our ambitious goals!