Merchandise Planner

Overview

Our client is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom-up merchandise plans to ensure consumer demand is met and a healthy pull market is maintained.The success of our team relies on collaborative and detail-oriented assortment planners who manage style and/or franchise plans to optimize sales, margin and profitable sustainable growth across the marketplace. Our assortment planners step up to address difficult issues, operate effectively when the way forward isn’t clear, develop innovative ideas and they win with consumers by understanding their business to drive success.

Responsibilities:

If this is you, you’ll develop a robust assortment planning framework that includes product depth, flow and SKU efficiency, whilst providing marketplace consumer insights to curate the optimal product line. In a typical day/week you will building bottom-up forecasts to inform pre-season decisions, weekly sales analysis to identify risk and opportunity, collaboration with your marketplace team and retail partners to manage performance and providing post-season assortment insights and recommendations to key stakeholders.

Experience:

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, Sales, Retail, Marketing or related field
• 5+ years retail planning experience, in a vertical retail or wholesale environment
• Merchandise planning experience is highly desirable
• Strong Excel skills are essential
• Comprehensive understanding of retail math required
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management experience
• Ability to work across a matrixed environment

The target hiring compensation range for this role is $36 to $40 an hour. Compensation is based on several factors including, but not limited to education, relevant work experience, relevant certifications, and location.

About Aquent Talent:

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Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. We also offer free online training through Aquent Gymnasium. More information on our awesome benefits! 

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