Associate Merchandise Planner

Destination XL Group • Canton, MA

77d • Hybrid

About The Position

As an Associate Merchandise Planner, you'll play an essential role in shaping our product strategy and driving results. You'll create thoughtful, data-informed plans for margin, inventory, assortment, and financial performance that support our merchandise team. By maintaining accurate sales, margin, and inventory forecasts, you'll help ensure our Open-to-Buy reflects the best opportunities to grow the business. You'll also collaborate with cross-functional partners to enhance assortment planning and strengthen product distribution across both our store locations and direct channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor's Degree preferred, or an equivalent combination of education, training, and experience
• 2-4 years specialty retail associate buyer/associate planner/allocation experience
• Strong orientation to bottom line results through practical merchandise experience
• Experience in forecasting product need based on current trends and future plans

Responsibilities

• Reviewing seasonal results by style, class, sub-department, and department across all grades and lifestyles and providing insights and recommendations to guide future assortment
• Collaborating with buyers to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns financial and product opportunities by department, class and by selected key items
• Partnering with the buyers to develop assortment plans that outline the appropriate number of customer choices for each store grade and the direct channel, along with the correct depth for each choice
• Identifying and executing markdown strategies that align with clearance timelines and gross margin objectives
• Taking appropriate actions to maintain and control inventories to forecast and plan and identifying opportunities to cancel, purchase or expedite merchandise to hit targeted inventory levels through a monthly OTB process

Benefits

• All Your Basic Benefits (health, dental, 401k, PTO, etc.)
• Hybrid Work Environment
• Compressed/Flexible Work Schedule
• Bring Your Dog to Work Days
• And more!

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Entry Level
• Industry: Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree