Highlights
Establishes clear merchandise plans that tell a story for the season and drives merchandising to create a line plan grounded in profitability and consumer centric offerings Recaps and analyzes actual sales results to plan, and forecast in-season sales and inventories. Drives financial results that maximize sales, inventory, and gross margin profitability at the SKU level up to the category total, for both Client and the retailer.
Numbers & Facts
| Location | Beaverton, OR |
| Industry | Staffing/Employment Agencies |
| Company Size | 100 to 499 employees |
| Year Founded | 1990 |
| Website | http://www.sunrisesys.com/ |
Description
Our client, a leading athletic footwear and apparel manufacturing company, is looking for a Merchandise Planner 3. This is for an initial duration of 07 months and is located at Beaverton, OR.
Job Title: Merchandise Planner 3
Reference ID: 26-03941
Location: Beaverton, OR.
Duration: 07 months
Job Type: Contract (Candidates must be able to work on W2 without VISA sponsorship)
Description:
- Focused on planning merchandise priorities to ensure product arrives at the right place and right time for the consumer.
- Drives financial results that maximize sales, inventory, and gross margin profitability at the SKU level up to the category total, for both Client and the retailer.
- Manages the financial success of area of responsibility by meeting strategic objectives.
- Establishes clear merchandise plans that tell a story for the season and drives merchandising to create a line plan grounded in profitability and consumer centric offerings Recaps and analyzes actual sales results to plan, and forecast in-season sales and inventories.
- Collaborates with retail counterparts to manage sales / inventory plans that yield maximum sales & profits for and the retailer.
- Proactively reports on the health of the business and facilitate smart business decisions.
- Drives process improvements. Helps establish consistency in the Planning process, both in documentation and implementation Provides retailer information to assist account team in the go to market process. Collaborates with the account team in aligning the product assortment & retailer sales/margin/turn goals.
- Provides selling data from current and previous seasons to assist the account team in assortment planning by location cluster/gender/category/class for the Brand.
- Evaluates retailer assortment needs versus Inc. category objectives, provides opportunities and communicates opportunities/risks.
Top musthave skills include the following:
- Proficiency in Excel
- Retail/planning experience
- Self starter
- Ability to story tell with data
- Detail oriented
Desired soft skills:
- Ability to work in ambiguity
- Time management
- Ability to prioritize
- Team player
Skills that would make a candidate stand out:
- AI experience familiarity working with massive data sets
- Familiarity with brick and mortar retail experience (as opposed to ecommerce)
Interested and Qualified candidates, please send your most recently updated word document resume to Jaffer.s@sunrisesys.com.
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
- Business, management, and technical fields
- Information technology consulting and software solutions.
- Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
- Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
- Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
- Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
- Data processing and data migration
- Application re-engineering and platform migration
- Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.