Merchandise Planner Jobs in the United States
Accentuate Staffing
$55000 - $60000
Oxford, NC
The Planner Buyer ensures materials, components, and finished goods are available to meet production schedules and customer demand while maintaining optimal inventory levels and cost controls. This position partners closely with Operations, Engineering, Quality, and Finance teams to align production priorities, resolve material or capacity constraints, and support continuous improvement initiatives.
Kirkland's, Inc.
Brentwood, Tennessee
The Senior Merchandise Planner must effectively lead a division of Merchandise Planners and Associate Planners in analyzing and identifying business risks and opportunities while partnering with the merchandising team to propose solutions based on this analysis in order to achieve and exceed financial goals. Lead Merchandise Planners and Associate Planners in partnering with Buying teams to properly manage inventory levels through proper forecasting, assortment planning, and markdown strategies.
Kirkland's, Inc.
Brentwood, Tennessee
The Senior Merchandise Planner must effectively lead a division of Merchandise Planners and Associate Planners in analyzing and identifying business risks and opportunities while partnering with the merchandising team to propose solutions based on this analysis in order to achieve and exceed financial goals. Lead Merchandise Planners and Associate Planners in partnering with Buying teams to properly manage inventory levels through proper forecasting, assortment planning, and markdown strategies.
Brilliant Earth
null, null
The ideal candidate is a strategic thinker who excels in a fast-paced startup environment and has demonstrated an ability to drive meaningful business impact through sophisticated analyses, predictive modeling, cross-functional leadership, and implementation of scalable processes. This role will report to the Associate Director of Merchandise Planning and will serve as the primary liaison between merchandising, operations, and finance teams to optimize inventory investments while maximizing profitability and customer satisfaction.
Kirkland's, Inc.
Brentwood, Tennessee
Overview: The Associate Merchandise Planner for buy buy Baby creates and manages bottom-up item sales and inventory plans for assigned departments. Partner with Buyer and Planner to create sales targets on promotional merchandise, while identifying risk to the overall department sales plan.
Cinemark USA, Inc
Plano, TX
The Buyer & Merchandise Planner plays a dual role, responsible for both the strategic planning of sales, gross margin, and inventory, and the tactical execution of buying and product development. With 500+ theatres and nearly 6,000 screens; we're truly a global presence of 20,000 movie lovers working together to make unforgettable experiences.
Sunrise Systems Inc
Beaverton, OR
Who we are looking for: We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner to establish clear end-to-end bottoms-up merchandise plans partnering with Merchandising & Enterprise Business Planning to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer centric offerings that support the goals and the consumer sport offense. Who you will work with: You will partner cross-functionally with Direct Merchandising, Sport Planning, Sport Merchandising, Allocation Planning, Concept Planning, and Marketing/Brand teams.
Kirkland's, Inc.
Brentwood, Tennessee
Overview: The Associate Planner for Bed Bath & beyond creates and manages bottom-up item sales and inventory plans for assigned departments. Partner with Buyer and Planner to create sales targets on promotional merchandise, while identifying risk to the overall department sales plan.
PetSmart
Phoenix, Arizona
Your involvement in sales and margin forecasts, promotional performance analysis, inventory management, and vendor relationships will play a critical role in obtaining goals while maintaining PetSmart’s reputation in the market as a trusted partner to pet parents. Support the VP & Director to present within various strategic meetings for the division (i.e. Direction Setting, Marketing Execution meetings, Line Reviews, Open-To-Buy, Vendor, QBR, and other meetings).
Urban Outfitters
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Own ladder plans of key investments styles based on the inventory need to support rate of sale, store presentation, targeted sell-through percent, and the current risk parameters and historical trends (long range goal). Role Summary: Urban Outfitters is looking for an Associate Merchandise Planner to maximize sales by developing sound merchandise plans that support Company goals for sales, turn and margin.
AKIRA
Chicago, IL
This position reports directly to the Planning Manager and works closely with Merchandising, Allocation, and Finance to ensure inventory investments align with financial targets and brand strategy. This role is responsible for driving sales, margin, and inventory productivity through disciplined forecasting, open-to-buy management, and in-season trade execution.
Aeropostale
$62700 - $114000
New York, New York
The Associate Merchandise Planner is responsible for supporting the strategic direction of sales and inventory for select business categories through comprehensive analysis of financial performance, historical data, and current market insights. • Ability to clearly and accurately communicate and exchange information verbally, in writing, or through other means in person, telephonically, or through virtual communication methods.
HireTalent
Beaverton, OR
We are looking for a Senior Assortment Planner to establish clear end-to-end bottoms-up merchandise plans partnering with Merchandising & Enterprise Business Planning to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer centric offerings that support the goals of Client and the consumer sport offense. You will partner cross-functionally with Client Direct Merchandising, Sport Planning, Sport Merchandising, Allocation Planning, Concept Planning, and Marketing/Brand teams.
MINISO USA
West Covina, California
This role is responsible for translating the buyer’s vision into viable profitable results through developing and maintaining sales, inventory and margin plans that tie to financial targets. Plan all components (retail, cost, units, margin, etc.) for specific categories/departments pertaining to class or item level in order to maximize sales and profitability.
ThirdLove
San Francisco, CA
Channel Expansion & Omnichannel Strategy: Partner with the Associate Director, Inventory Planning, to establish annual/seasonal sales and inventory targets for all existing and expanding channels: Ecommerce (DTC), Retail (brick-and-mortar), Wholesale (external partners), and Amazon. Tools & AI: Develop, optimize, and implement best-in-class processes and tools for omnichannel sales analysis, receipt planning, and dynamic inventory allocation to ensure a seamless and profitable customer experience.
Kirkland's, Inc.
Brentwood, Tennessee
Reforecast weekly; sales, and margin based on current trends as well as initiating discussions with the buying team as needed to ensure that open-to-buy is accurate, and inventory is in line with sales trend and plan. Overview: Under minimal supervision, the Merchandise Planner for the buy buy Baby brand will create and manage department/class sales, inventory, and profit plans for assigned departments.
Rural King Supply
Mattoon, Illinois
As a New Store Merchandise Planner you will be playing a critical role in the successful launch of new retail locations by overseeing and coordinating all merchandising activities involved in preparing the store for opening. We offer opportunities for growth, competitive benefits, a people first environment, and an opportunity to work alongside dedicated associates who share a passion for providing an exceptional experience and service to our rural communities.
Artech LLC
Beaverton, OR
Join our dynamic team as a Merchandise Planner 2, where you will play a pivotal role in optimizing our supply chain and logistics operations. This position offers a unique opportunity to work in a collaborative environment, driving strategic initiatives and influencing key business decisions.
Nuuly
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Collaboration & Communication: Build strong relationships with buying and planning teams, partner with cross-functional stakeholders and planning leadership, positively impact team processes through clear communication. Role Summary: Nuuly is looking for a Merchandise Planner who will maximize subscription revenue by creating a sound merchandise and assortment plan for rentals that minimizes risk, increases productivity, and supports nuuly’s goals for turn and in-stock.
Staples
Framingham, MA
Merchandise Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining period and yearly financial plans for their assigned categories and effectively partnering with Merchants and Inventory Management on identifying and implementing strategies to achieve or exceed them. Additionally, the Merchandise Planner is responsible for item planning and analysis to ensure merchandising and inventory plans are synchronized to achieve or exceed sales, inventory turns, margin and service level objectives.
Carter's/OshKosh
Atlanta, GA
The Carter’s Retail Planning team is responsible for developing short and mid-range merchandise strategies, buy quantification and financial plans, working cross-functionally with our Merchandising, Marketing, Pricing, Allocations and Location Planning teams to achieve key financial objectives for CRI. + Prepare consolidated materials and create executive reporting packages for key meetings and forecast cycles (monthly/quarterly E reporting, Monthly Business Review meetings, Leadership Team meetings, Earnings preparation, Board of Directors meetings).
Oxford Industries, Inc
Lexington, KY
Create, input, and maintain statistical forecast models using quantitative and qualitative analysis, incorporating sales trends, promotional plans, new product launches, and business intelligence across DTC and Wholesale channels. This role partners cross-functionally to align merchandising, inventory, sales, and financial objectives for The Beaufort Bonnet Company, driving financial results that maximize sales performance and inventory productivity across all channels.
Anthropologie
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Role Summary: Anthropologie is looking for a Merchandise Planner who will maximize sales by developing sound merchandise plans that support company goals for sales, turn and margin. Sales/Markdowns/Receipts/IMU/Gross Margin Forecasting based on current sales trend using TXT Planning.
maurices
$75000 - $80000
Duluth, MN
Prepare and present season/class plans through: research and analysis of data, appropriate interpretation of historical data, trend analysis, work with pricing and promotions team, and collaboration with cross functional partners that support total company financial goals. . Utilize APT or partners with APT knowledge to analyze geographic, demographic, promotional, or other impacts on business or basket analysis by orchestrating test and learn scenarios. .
Nordstrom
$93500 - $155000
Seattle, WA
Incorporate departmental merchandise strategies within the creation of financial plans + Effectively balance objective information with subjective inputs to give guidance for merchandising teams + Develop demand plans for the Direct Channel through to net sales, incorporating returns and transfer impacts to all channels within the company + Develop the mid-level merchandise financial plan at channel + Develop the location level sales plans and establish inventory turns by store at each half to generate original plan stock to sales and inventory targets + Review and re-project merchandise financial plans per the corporate cadence in season + Act as a change leader to support company initiatives and ensure adoption by merchandising team + Advocate for financial disciplines and inventory efficiency while working with the buyer and buy planner to support the execution of the merchandise strategy You own this if you have. As a customer-centric organization, NMG is responsible for planning, buying, pricing, and delivering merchandise across all Nordstrom channels-including Nordstrom and Nordstrom Rack stores, digital platforms, and off-price experiences.
Nike
Beaverton, OR
We offer a number of accommodations to complete our interview process including screen readers, sign language interpreters, accessible and single location for in-person interviews, closed captioning, and other reasonable modifications as needed. In this role, you’ll lead the development and roll-up of multi-season fiscal and inventory plans across the total geo , integrating marketplace and consumer plans to deliver aligned financial targets.
inSync Staffing
Beaverton, OR
The planner will manage assortment strategy from preseason planning through in-season optimization using data-driven forecasting, retail math, and cross-functional collaboration. The position sits on a core team of 6–7 while partnering closely with sport planning, in-line planning, merchandising, and allocation teams across North America.
Free People
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Role Summary: Free People is looking for an Associate Merchandise Planner who will maximize sales and profit by working with the planning team to develop sound merchandise plans for one or more departments that supports the company’s goals for sales, turn, and margin. Role Responsibilities: Working with senior planner or planner to ensure the success of one or more departments by meeting or exceeding sales, gross margin, and inventory turn.
Free People
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Role Summary: Free People is looking for a Merchandise Planner who will maximize sales and profit by developing sound merchandise plans for one or more departments that support the company’s goals for sales, turn, and margin. Clearly communicating and providing reporting and analysis to highlight important trends and/or support key initiatives.
Free People
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Role Summary: Free People is looking for a Senior Merchandise Planner who will maximize sales and profit by developing sound merchandise plans for one or more departments that support the company’s goals for sales, turn, and margin. Clearly communicating and providing reporting and analysis to highlight important trends and/or support key initiatives.
The Vitamin Shoppe
Secaucus, NJ
Partnering closely with Merchandising, Private Brand, Supply Chain, Analytics, and vendor teams, the Merchandise Planner translates demand signals and financial targets into actionable, data-driven plans that balance opportunity with investment. This role serves as a critical link between merchant strategy and operational execution and requires a detail-oriented, logical, and results-driven thinker who can model scenarios, influence partners, and drive disciplined inventory decisions.
Free People
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Role Summary: Free People is looking for an Assistant Merchandise Planner who will assist the planning team. Independently running and distributing weekly and month end (attribute and store count) reports.
Jubilant HollisterStier
$39.56 - $53.53
Spokane, WA
Jubilant HollisterStier LLC, Spokane’s Largest Manufacturing Company, and well-established member of the business community, provides a complete range of services to support the pharmaceutical and biopharmaceutical industries. Prevent material/inventory shortages, to requisition and resolve critical material needs and to seek the best products through rationalizing and consolidating suppliers and identifying opportunities to reduce cost.
AMERISOURCEBERGEN SERVICES CORPORATION
$57900 - $85360
SeaTac, WA
The ideal candidate will possess understanding of inventory management, supply chain processes, and program innovation, as well as a proven ability to drive cross-functional collaboration and optimize supply chain processes in service of a superior customer experience. This encompasses support for working families, which may include backup dependent care, adoption assistance, infertility coverage, family building support, behavioral health solutions, paid parental leave, and paid caregiver leave.
Staffing Scouts
Dallas, Texas
The Planning Manager partners closely with the Head of Wholesale & Planning and works cross-functionally with Sales, Operations, Finance, and Brand to ensure we are buying, producing, and selling the right product at the right time — with clarity and accountability. Recruiting a hands-on, business-owning Merchandise Planner who can take full ownership of forecasting, inventory strategy, and performance management across Wholesale and DTC.
Jobot
$90000 - $100000
Houston, TX
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PetSmart
Phoenix, Arizona
Successful trainees will promote on from the program with a strong understanding of how merchandising and demand planning work together to drive customer satisfaction and business results, and with a clear path forward in PetSmart’s planning organization. The Demand Planning Trainee Program is a 12‑week immersive development experience designed to prepare candidates new to the merchandising field for full‑time Demand Planner roles within PetSmart’s Merchandising Planning organization.
PetSmart
Phoenix, Arizona
Owns the end-to-end management of demand planning and allocation optimization, including in-stock and service levels for funded items and promotional product; set targets and achieves plans for inventory and space productivity required to support the sales, gross margin and in-stock plans, maintain high levels of promotional product availability during promotional periods while minimizing ad residue, and optimizing end-caps, aisle, and in-line story telling and integration consistent with consumer shopping patterns. Your involvement in sales and margin forecasts, promotional performance analysis, inventory management, and vendor relationships will play a critical role in obtaining goals while maintaining PetSmart’s reputation in the market as a trusted partner to pet parents.
Stio
Jackson, WY
Stio® is an omni-channel mountain brand that designs, develops and sells beautiful, functional, and innovative apparel, footwear and other accessories infused with the soul of the mountain lifestyle. Possess a clear understanding of financial measurements including sales, gross margin, return rate, months on hand, sell through, turn rate, and how to positively impact these metrics.
Weezie
Atlanta, GA
In partnership with the SVP of Merchandising and Business Development, set top-down annual sales and margin goals, lead midyear reforecasting, and reconcile top-down and bottom-up plans to identify trend variances and refine assumptions. We’re looking for a Demand Planner to drive bottoms-up inventory planning and forecasting across channels, ensuring we have the right products in the right places at the right times.
Perry Ellis International
Miami, FL
The Company, through its wholly owned subsidiaries owns and licenses nationally and with a brand portfolio of over 40 Brands domestically and internationally recognized brands including: Perry Ellis®, Original Penguin® by Munsingwear®, Laundry by Shelli Segal®, Rafaella®, Cubavera®, Ben Hogan®, Savane®, Grand Slam®, John Henry®, Manhattan®, Axist® and Farah®. System Functional Leadership: Act as the primary business representative and functional lead for the Anaplan platform implementation, ensuring technical development accurately reflects defined business requirements, planning logic, and operational processes.
PetSmart
Phoenix, Arizona
Your involvement in sales and margin forecasts, promotional performance analysis, inventory management, and vendor relationships will play a critical role in obtaining goals while maintaining PetSmart’s reputation in the market as a trusted partner to pet parents. Leads the development and execution of demand planning, including information sharing and problem solving with vendors around purchase orders, capacities, forecasting, and network inventory flow and optimization.
Ulta Beauty, Inc.
Bolingbrook, Illinois
We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services.
Foot Locker
$80000 - $90000
Los Angeles, California
This role focuses on reporting, analysis, forecasting support, and inventory management to ensure product is positioned appropriately by style, color, size, and channel. The Associate Merchandise Planner supports inventory, sales, and margin planning for assigned apparel and footwear categories at WSS.
Shane Co.
$97000 - $118000
Greenwood Village, Colorado
NYC Alliance Company LLC
$80000 - $85000
New York, NY
Align with Planning Director on the in-season reforecast of OTB, using current sales trends and on-order, to present revised projections of sales, margins, open to buy and inventory turn to management team. You will collaborate with cross-functional teams to track inventory levels, analyze sales trends, and assist in developing assortment strategies that align with the company's financial objectives.
Ulta Beauty, Inc.
Bolingbrook, Illinois
We bring possibilities to life through the power of beauty each and every day in our stores and online with more than 25,000 products from approximately 500 well-established and emerging beauty brands across all categories and price points, including Ulta Beauty’s own private label. Ulta Beauty is the largest North American beauty retailer and the premier beauty destination for cosmetics, fragrance, skin care products, hair care products and salon services.
Sally Beauty Holdings
Plano, TX
The work environment involves everyday risks or discomforts which require normal safety precautions typical of such places as offices, meeting and training rooms, retail stores, and residences or commercial vehicles, e.g., use of safe work practices with office equipment, avoidance of trips and falls, observance of fire regulations and traffic signals, etc. Through their partnership with the Merchant team and Merchandise Finance team, those analyses will be utilized to increase productivity and profitability of the business in addition to helping support change management throughout the company.
Dollar General
GOODLETTSVILLE, Tennessee
Whether you are looking to launch a new career in one of our many convenient Store locations, Distribution Centers, Store Support Center or with our Private Fleet Team, we are proud to provide a wide range of career opportunities. In this Merchandise Assistant role, you will be contributing to the growth and profitability by giving support to distribution centers, the field, and the merchandising team.