Merchandise Planner, Women's Swim, Outwear, & Layers

Vuori, Inc•Carlsbad, CA

2d•$75,000 - $96,000•Onsite

About The Position

The Merchandise Planner is responsible for analyzing the in-season business and developing future financial strategies to support financial goals. This role collaborates with Merchandising, Production and Inventory, and Allocation teams. The planner will partner with merchants and planning leadership on strategy, building targets, KPIs, markdown strategy, optimizing sell-through, and forward planning. They will drive and own Pre-Season Planning by connecting statistical analysis, assortment architecture, and merchant vision into a merchandise plan. Seasonal Planning involves developing seasonal architecture aligned with brand strategies and calendars, incorporating distortions, targets, and relationships of regular to promotional sales sensitivities and demand. The role also involves developing weekly sales, markdowns, and receipt plans at the style level, managing monthly receipts to approved levels, analyzing buys for optimal inventory turn, and considering seasonal sales curves and receipt flow for new product launches. Additionally, the Merchandise Planner will conduct hindsight analysis of merchandise/planning strategy, analyze business performance to maximize sales, profitability, and inventory while mitigating risk, support the creation of financial decks with commentary, and improve analytical capabilities to drive key milestone meetings with enhanced communication and influence.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree in finance, operations, business, or supply chain or equivalent years of experience preferred.
2+ years of retail planning, inventory management, financial planning and / or production planning experience.
Excellent technical skills in Microsoft Excel and/or related planning, finance, or analytical systems.
Great business influence skills. Role is highly influential and requires input from various teams to be successful.
Proven ability to meet deadlines, grow performance capabilities, and handle shifting priorities - able to thrive in a fast-paced environment.
Able to identify and influence critical stakeholders, proactively problem solve, and recommend solutions.
Extremely strong communication and presentation skills concisely presents complex information and recommendations in terms meaningful to a variety of audiences.

Responsibilities

Partner with merchants and planning leadership on strategy, building targets, KPIs, mark down strategy, optimizing sell through and forward planning
Drives and owns the Pre-Season Planning - Connecting statistical analysis, assortment architecture, and merchant vision into a pre-season view of a merchandise plan.
Seasonal Planning - Develop seasonal architecture aligned with Brand strategies and calendars; incorporate distortions, targets, and relationships of regular to promotion sales sensitivities and demand.
Develop weekly sales, markdowns and receipt plans at the style level based on both trend and historical performance.
Inventory Management - Manage monthly receipts to approved levels by analyzing buys and focus on optimal inventory turn, while taking into consideration the varying seasonal sales curves and receipt flow to facilitate new product launch set-up.
Conduct hindsight of merchandise/planning strategy to inform future planning and execution activities.
Analyze business performance and make recommendations that will maximize sales, profitability, and inventory and mitigate risk
Support creation of financial decks with commentary for key business meetings
Improve capabilities around analytics, conclusions, recommendations, to assist in driving key milestone meetings to conclusions with improved communication and influence.