Director, Merchandise Planning

Bass Pro Shops•Springfield, MO

8d•Onsite

About The Position

The Merchandise Planning Director will lead the process to plan, forecast and manage sales, margin, inventory, receipts and turn for retail and direct business for Financial and Demand components. Key responsibilities are to maximize sales, gross profit, inventory turns, optimize markdowns, and manage the open to buy with accurate monthly sales, receipt and margin forecasts for specific categories by analyzing financials, market, and customer data. Responsible for ensuring the demand plan aligns with the financial plan.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree, in Supply Chain, Business, Finance or related field.
10 years of experience in retail environment.
Proficient PC skills, including MS Office Suite and advanced Excel
Understanding of retail math components
Aptitude to analyze data to identify trends, issues and opportunities
Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Effective communication skills at multiple levels within the organization including senior management
Ability to present business strategies and action plans to cross functional groups
Support an environment that fosters respect for the ideas of others as well as ongoing collaboration to execute business strategy
Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and remain detailed oriented.

Responsibilities

Align with SVP(s) to develop strategy and financial plans to achieve annual financial sales, gross margin and inventory plans to support the company’s budgeted sales, gross margin and turn goals.
Aligns tops down financial plans/forecasts with bottoms up demand plans/forecasts.
Lead the development of category and department plans and bottoms up demand plans to achieve or exceed financial goals.
Ensure alignment between tops down financial plans and bottoms up demand forecasts.
Manage open to buy.
Provide guidance and insights for forecasting sales, gross margin, receipts and inventory.
Recognizes trends or patterns and make recommendations for forecasts updates, as necessary.
Lead team to provide accurate and thorough analysis of performance to be used to make informed decisions to drive profitable sales.
Quantify in-season risks and opportunities and confidently make recommendations for action.
Partner with the SVP to drive opportunities and request support as needed.
Champion initiatives to create financial and demand planning best practices that provide efficient processes to effectively plan, forecast and recap financial performance.
Align with Senior Leadership, Finance, Merchants and team to ensure company EBITDA goals are met or exceeded.
Build a high performing planning team through developing, training, coaching and mentoring.
Facilitate team environment between Merchant, Planning and Inventory Management organizations.
All other duties as assigned

Benefits

Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!
Medical
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Account
Voluntary benefits
401k Retirement Savings
Paid holidays
Paid vacation
Paid sick time
Bass Pro Cares Fund
And more!