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Analyst, Merchandise Planning - Banana Republic Japan

The Gap

  • Folsom, California
  • 12 days ago

    Highlights

    Manage inventory from PO Creation to arrival as Distribution Center through receipt reconciliation, purchase order tracking, and size and pack management to ensure inventory is accurately positioned to support business needs. Identify and proactively resolve purchase order, receipt, and inventory flow discrepancies in partnership with cross-functional teams to support on-time product availability.

    Numbers & Facts

    LocationFolsom, California
    IndustryAll
    Company Size10,000 employees or more
    Websitehttp://www.gap.com

    Description

    About the Role

    In this role you will be a part of the Inventory Management team that brings the financial strategy of our product vision to life by managing the largest financial asset of the company: our product itself. In your role, you will drive the success of one or more product categories by creating a financial roadmap and marrying it to brand strategy and customer needs. You are passionate about using your qualitative and quantitative skillset in a fashion retail environment and find joy and creativity in forecasting and financial planning. You are curious, innovative, and focused on executing an amazing customer experience while delivering/exceeding financial targets. Strong analytical and storytelling skills will serve you well, and a collaborative mindset is a must.

    What You'll Do

    • Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by division and department
    • Collaborate with Merchandising to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities by division and department
    • Create preseason sales, gross margin and inventory plans by division and department that support product strategies
    • Reconcile top down to bottom-up division/department plans
    • Recap and analyze actual sales results to plan and historical, and forecast in season sales and inventories on a weekly / monthly / quarterly basis 
    • Manage inventory from PO Creation to arrival as Distribution Center through receipt reconciliation, purchase order tracking, and size and pack management to ensure inventory is accurately positioned to support business needs 
    • Identify and proactively resolve purchase order, receipt, and inventory flow discrepancies in partnership with cross-functional teams to support on-time product availability 
    • Develop, collaborate, and maintain effective working relationships with members of cross functional team (Merchandising, Visual, Production, Allocation, and Planning)

    Who You Are

    • Must love Excel, have strong technical skills, and be systems savvy
    • Believe in the Power of Team; builds constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners
    • Possess strong business acumen and strategic agility, able to handle many projects simultaneously while effectively prioritizing workload
    • Demonstrate strong listening, written and oral communication skills, able to present ideas and directions that rally others to action

    About Company

    Doris and Don Fisher opened the first Gap store in 1969 with a simple idea -- to make it easier to find a pair of jeans and a commitment to do more. Over the last 46 years, the company has grown from a single store to a global fashion business with five brands -- Gap, Banana Republic, Old Navy, Athleta and Intermix. Gap's clothes are available in 90 countries worldwide through 3,300 company-operated stores, almost 400 franchise stores, and e-commerce sites and is still growing. Many companies work to improve their services and businesses every day by using GAP Testers who anonymously go into various places and report back to the companies on everything from cleanliness, customer service to quality control. Being a tester is a very flexible, fun job with lots of benefits.

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