DTC Planner

Levi Strauss • San Francisco, CA

1d • Hybrid

About The Position

The U.S. Mainline Planner will be a trusted team member supporting Levi Women's Tops and Outerwear. This role requires financial experience in the retail market to inform retail buy plans and achieve continued growth. The planner will be instrumental in resolving important business issues, providing analysis on opportunities and risks, promoting consistency in processes, and adopting best practices across the business and within the Direct-to-Consumer team. Collaboration with planning leads, merchandising team, and allocation partners is essential to ensure end-to-end strategy execution and line productivity.

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree; a combination of college education and related work experience may be used as a substitute
• 3+ years of planning experience
• An ownership mindset; flexible and resilient with a record of finding creative solutions
• Exceptional communication and interpersonal skills; able to work with a diverse team both in-person and hybrid
• Thoughtful analytic abilities; can use analysis to help shape stories
• Have a strong understanding of retail math, merchandising financials, and profitability KPIs
• Intermediate to advanced Excel skills and ability to learn new digital tools quickly

Responsibilities

• Help build department financial plans
• Balance channel, brand, and business needs
• Develop financial forecasts in-season and contribute to regular financial conversations with a diverse set of business partners
• Help create a narrative and articulate risks and opportunities
• Collaborate with merchants to develop consumer and category segment productivity targets within an assortment architecture
• Build and present bottom-up sales and inventory plans
• Reconcile against the tops-down financial plans to inform financial and inventory decisions
• Align with planning leads and business partners to guide in-season tactical activities in execution of seasonal strategies: promotional strategies, markdown management
• Work with allocation partners to ensure optimal in-season allocation, replenishment, consumption, and receipt flow
• Manage in-season profitability to achieve or exceed goals and submissions
• Identify opportunities in, and improve, processes and tools
• Participate in additional projects that support channel and company plans

Benefits

• Base pay
• Incentive plans
• 401(k) matching
• Paid leave
• Health insurance
• Product discounts
• More designed to help you and your family stay healthy, meet your financial goals, and balance the demands of your work and personal life

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level
• Number of Employees: 5,001-10,000 employees