Merchandise Planner, Strategic Channels

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

📋 Description

• Take ownership of merchandise plans at the division, department, class, and style levels for the Collaborations segment.

• Collaborate with the Merchandising team to formulate sales, margin, and inventory strategies.

• Create and uphold style-specific sales, inventory, receipt, and demand plans.

• Manage financial reconciliation, open-to-buy processes, sales forecasts, and inventory predictions.

• Implement strategies to enhance assortment productivity, sales, gross margin, inventory turnover, and product availability.

• Ensure optimal in-stock levels and streamline inventory across Collaboration categories, channels, and product launches.

• Lead business recaps on a weekly, monthly, quarterly, and seasonal basis.

• Deliver pre-season, in-season, and post-season trend analyses along with actionable insights.

• Facilitate cross-functional discussions to adjust forecasts, inventory allocations, and strategic approaches.

• Propose and execute strategies for pricing, markdowns, reorders, cancellations, and inventory transfers.

• Collaborate with the Sourcing team on long-term and seasonal item-level forecasts.

• Support strategic initiatives for channels, including Amazon.

• Assist with channel-specific forecasts, inventory plans, product availability, launch preparedness, and replenishment suggestions.

• Aid in the execution of strategic channel assortments, inventory management, pricing, and promotions.

• Track channel performance and provide thorough analysis, reporting, and actionable recommendations.

• Coordinate with E-commerce, Merchandising, Marketing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, DC Operations, and external channel partners.

• Contribute to the development of scalable planning reports, processes, and performance management routines.

⛳️ Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or equivalent experience in a related field.

• Minimum of 2 years of prior planning experience, preferably in direct-to-consumer.

• Experience with Amazon and/or Wholesale is a plus.

• Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving abilities.

• Proficiency in retail mathematics.

• Demonstrated success in merchandise forecasting, planning, and data analysis.

• Exceptional organizational and time-management skills.

• Capability to prioritize, influence, and make decisions across various organizational levels.

• Competence in utilizing sales financial data to inform decisions and enhance profitability.

• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills.

• Advanced skills in Excel and productivity applications, including PowerPoint and Word.

• Eagerness to learn and master new systems.

• Ability to manage multiple tasks and projects under tight deadlines.

🏝️ Benefits

• Emphasis on maintaining a healthy work-life balance.

• Equal employment opportunities for all.

• A collaborative and growth-oriented work environment.