Ecommerce Merchandise Planner - WSS

Foot Locker•Los Angeles, CA

1d•$90,000 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

The Ecommerce Merchandise Planner develops item-level financial and inventory strategies to maximize online sales, margin, and inventory productivity across multiple digital channels. The role combines analytical skills with product and consumer insights, with particular focus on size-level availability, trend lifecycle planning, seasonal demand, and performance by category, silhouette, and material. The planner adapts plans based on ecommerce demand signals and works across merchandising, buying, planning, supply chain, allocation, marketing, and creative teams. This is a hybrid position based at the WSS office in Gardena, California, with in-office work three days per week, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in Business, Merchandising, Finance, Analytics, Supply Chain, or a related field.
3–5+ years of experience in ecommerce planning, digital inventory management, or merchandise planning.
Advanced Excel capabilities and comfort working with large datasets and size-level reporting.
Understanding of sizing, silhouettes, and seasonality across product categories.
Consumer-first digital mindset.
Strong retail math, forecasting, and scenario-planning skills.
Ability to interpret size-level analytics and predict sell-down patterns.
Clear and confident communication with cross-functional partners.
Proactive decision-making and problem-solving in a fast-paced environment.
Passion for fashion, product trends, and evolving consumer behavior.

Nice To Haves

Apparel and footwear merchandise-planning experience.
Experience with ecommerce platforms and planning systems such as Shopify, Salesforce Commerce Cloud, Blue Yonder/JDA, or Power BI.

Responsibilities

Build, manage, and update weekly, monthly, and seasonal forecasts for sales, margin, demand, receipts, and inventory.
Forecast at the SKU, color, and size level using historical analytics, emerging trends, and marketing drivers.
Translate fashion, core, and seasonal assortment strategies into investment and flow plans.
Align forecasts with promotional calendars, stylized collections, product drops, influencer campaigns, and seasonal floorsets.
Own ecommerce open-to-buy strategy for assigned categories and identify risk and opportunity scenarios.
Monitor in-stock percentage, size availability, weeks of supply, aging, and reserve inventory to support sell-through and margin health.
Manage apparel and footwear lifecycle stages from test and scale through maintain, taper, and exit.
Recommend replenishment, raise or lower strategies, size adjustments, consolidation, and markdowns.
Create and maintain weekly analytical tools tracking sell-through and sell velocity by size, silhouette, and franchise; conversion trends tied to availability; attribute-based performance; and newness versus core productivity.
Conduct hindsight analysis to inform future category buys, size curves, and channel strategies.
Identify demand insights related to climate, region, and occasion.
Align with Ecommerce Merchandising on site strategy, including hero placements, outfitting, and shop-the-look modules.
Collaborate with Buying and Planning on buy quantity, size curve accuracy, launch timing, and trend testing.
Partner with Supply Chain and Allocation to ensure products are launch-ready with appropriate sizes and distribution center readiness.
Provide Marketing and Creative with accurate product and inventory insights before campaign execution.