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Overview

Aquent is partnering with a globally recognized brand that shapes trends and connects with customers worldwide. As a key player in our client’s dynamic team, you’ll have the exciting opportunity to directly influence strategic inventory and sales planning, ensuring our digital and store channels thrive. Your expertise will be crucial in optimizing product availability and driving profitability, making a tangible impact on our global reach and customer satisfaction.

This pivotal role is at the heart of our client’s merchandise strategy, focusing on optimizing sales and inventory for their rapidly expanding digital and store presence. You will be instrumental in setting up and refining processes that support growth across all categories, providing crucial insights and recommendations to maximize profitability and meet evolving customer demands.

**What You’ll Do:**

Merchandise Planning:

• Manage sales plans and inventory levels for digital channels.
• Collaborate with the Digital team to understand market trends, nuances, risks, and opportunities to achieve business goals.
• Analyze and drive business performance and trends to ensure assortment maximizes growth potential, incorporating assortment planning and tiering analysis.
• Provide input to Planning Committee meetings with the goal of optimizing inventory across multiple distribution centers and operating models based on merchandise and sales trends.
• Partner with Merchants to support assortment goals, product launch cadence, and markdown strategy.
• Ensure digital active dates are accurate and information flows seamlessly from the merchant assortment tool and the digital active date tool.
• Ensure that exclusives flow through the product development process and that all attributes are populated for digital channels and partner data handoff.
• Develop rapport with cross-functional teams and build credibility through effective communication.
• Respond to ad hoc requests from cross-functional teams.

Inventory Management:

• Manage merchandise inventory levels in the distribution center and ensure accurate ring-fencing across channels through inbound receipt tracking and collaboration with Merchandise Planners, Demand Forecasters, and Deployment Analysts.
• Continually monitor and adjust inventory in-season to minimize markdowns and deliver end-of-season mark-out-of-stock targets.
• Align inventory expectations with the brand deployment strategy through continuous education of the global inventory management process.
• Partner with Logistics partners to provide distribution center volume projections.

In this role, you’ll be a central figure in shaping our client’s merchandising success. You’ll collaborate closely with various cross-functional teams, from Digital to Logistics, influencing strategic decisions that directly impact product availability and customer experience. Your analytical prowess and strategic recommendations will drive key initiatives, ensuring optimal inventory flow and maximizing sales potential across all channels.

**Qualifications:**

• Proven experience in merchandise planning, particularly with digital and store channels.
• Strong background in sales and inventory analysis.
• Experience in collaborating with cross-functional teams (e.g., Digital, Merchants, Logistics).
• Exceptional analytical skills with the ability to interpret complex data and provide actionable recommendations.
• Proficiency in inventory management principles and practices.
• Strong communication and interpersonal skills to build rapport and influence stakeholders.
• Ability to manage multiple priorities and respond to ad hoc requests effectively.
• Detail-oriented with a focus on accuracy in data and processes.

**About Aquent Talent:**
Aquent Talent connects the best talent in marketing, creative, and design with the world’s biggest brands.
Our eligible talent get access to amazing benefits like subsidized health, vision, and dental plans, paid sick leave, and retirement plans with a match. More information on our awesome benefits!
Aquent is an equal-opportunity employer. We evaluate qualified applicants without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, disability, veteran status, and other legally protected characteristics. We’re about creating an inclusive environment—one where different backgrounds, experiences, and perspectives are valued, and everyone can contribute, grow their careers, and thrive.

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