Director of Planning

This is a fully remote position, open to applicants in United States.

📋 Description

• Oversee strategic financial and operational planning across all DTC channels, encompassing sales, margin, inventory, and cash flow.

• Direct seasonal buy planning across product categories from strategy and assortment development to execution, replenishment, and post-season analysis.

• Collaborate with the VP of Planning to create annual and multi-year strategic plans.

• Manage the Open-to-Buy budget and inventory investment strategy, including seasonal buys, allocations, SKU rationalization, and inventory positioning.

• Develop and maintain rolling 18–24 month demand forecasts by channel, category, and customer segment.

• Supervise weekly core and seasonal replenishment, SKU-level projections, inventory positioning, and channel allocation.

• Analyze sell-through, margin, and inventory performance to pinpoint reorders, promotions, assortment changes, and optimization opportunities.

• Oversee margin and DTC performance reporting for leadership.

• Lead the development of seasonal buy sheets and communicate assortment, quantity, and timing requirements across teams.

• Optimize delivery timing and make decisions between air and ocean freight.

• Manage box forecasting and purchasing to meet fulfillment requirements.

• Support retail expansion through strategic inventory planning, allocation, and positioning for store launches.

• Collaborate across functions to anticipate supply risks, synchronize promotional and production calendars, and minimize stockouts and excess inventory.

• Utilize advanced analytics, data modeling, and AI-driven tools to enhance forecasting, inventory health, and planning efficiency.

• Provide strategic analysis and recommendations to senior leadership, including quarterly business reviews and investment assessments.

• Foster cross-functional partnerships across Merchandising, Operations, Ecommerce, Marketing, Analytics, Finance, and Supply Chain.

• Continuously refine planning processes, tools, and methodologies.

• Lead, mentor, and nurture a high-performing planning team.

⛳️ Requirements

• 12+ years of progressive experience in merchandise planning, buying, inventory management, demand forecasting, or ecommerce planning, with at least 8 years in a leadership or senior individual contributor role.

• Demonstrated ownership of OTB budgets, seasonal buy strategies, and inventory planning across DTC and wholesale channels.

• Extensive expertise in demand forecasting, inventory optimization, margin management, retail mathematics, sell-through analysis, and inventory productivity.

• Thorough understanding of ecommerce, omnichannel, and DTC business models.

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising, Finance, Statistics, or a related field.

• Expert-level proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including advanced functions, pivot tables, complex formulas, macros, and AI-enabled modeling.

• Experience with planning, forecasting, and business intelligence platforms such as NetSuite, Shopify, Looker, Tableau, or similar tools.

• Ability to quickly learn and independently optimize new systems.

• Proven capability to build and scale planning processes and teams in rapidly growing environments.

• Advanced analytical and problem-solving skills.

• Strong organizational and project management abilities.

• Demonstrated success in leading, mentoring, and developing high-performing planning teams.

• Strategic mindset that balances long-term channel vision with short-term execution, margin, and inventory optimization.

• Strong commercial insight with the ability to translate data and customer insights into actionable strategies and buying decisions.

• Entrepreneurial, solutions-oriented approach to establishing scalable processes, analytics, and planning culture.

• Adaptive leadership, accountability, and resourcefulness in ambiguous, fast-paced settings.

• Customer-centric mindset with a keen interest in ecommerce trends, consumer behavior, and competitive dynamics.

• Exceptional organizational and communication skills.

• Competence in optimizing planning tools and leveraging AI and advanced analytics.

🏝️ Benefits

• Generous paid time off.

• Company-covered health insurance.

• 5% 401k match.

• Discounts on all Comfrt products.

• Fully remote work environment.

• Supportive, creative atmosphere where ideas and growth are appreciated.