Merchandise Planner
About The Position
Fleet Farm is seeking a Merchandise Planner for its Hardware Division to help drive sales, optimize inventory, and support profitable growth. The role develops merchandise plans and demand forecasts, analyzes financial and inventory performance, and collaborates with business partners to ensure product availability. The position is onsite at Fleet Farm’s Store Support Center in Appleton, Wisconsin. The Merchandise Planner works with Category Managers, Inventory Management, Merchandising, Marketing, and Supply Chain partners. The role incorporates sales trends, seasonality, promotions, and assortment changes into planning decisions, and identifies ways to improve inventory productivity, profitability, and product availability.
Requirements
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Merchandising, or a related field, or equivalent experience.
- Strong Excel skills, including PivotTables, lookup functions, and working with large datasets.
- Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to turn data into actionable recommendations.
- Excellent communication and collaboration skills.
- Curious, detail-oriented mindset and ability to manage changing priorities and deadlines.
Nice To Haves
- Experience in merchandise planning, demand forecasting, inventory management, supply chain, or financial analysis.
- Experience with merchandise planning systems, ERP platforms, or business intelligence tools.
Responsibilities
- Develop and maintain merchandise plans and forecasts based on sales, inventory, margin, seasonality, and promotional trends.
- Analyze sales performance, inventory levels, and open-to-buy to identify risks and opportunities.
- Monitor financial and inventory metrics and recommend adjustments to improve profitability and product availability.
- Partner with Category Managers and Inventory Management to align forecasts with business goals.
- Incorporate promotional activity, seasonal demand, and assortment changes into planning decisions.
- Identify opportunities to improve inventory productivity, manage excess inventory, and minimize out-of-stocks.
- Communicate insights and recommendations to Merchandising, Marketing, and Supply Chain partners.
- Maintain accurate planning data and identify opportunities to improve processes and efficiencies.
Benefits
- Opportunities to grow skills and career.
- Exposure to multiple areas of the business.
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Job Type
Full-time
