Planner, US Direct-to-Consumer

Levi Strauss & Co.•San Francisco, CA

1d•$70,000 - $101,000•Hybrid

About The Position

As the Planner, US Direct-to-Consumer, you will be a trusted partner to support brand/category strategy for Men's Tops & Outerwear. You have financial experience of the retail market to inform the retail buy plans, and can identify important business issues and provide analysis on opportunities and risks in the business. You will work with the merchant and allocation management partners to ensure end-to-end strategy execution and line productivity.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree or a combination of college education and related work experience.
2+ years of planning experience.
Interpret meaningful themes from quantitative data.
Advanced Microsoft excel (can maintain complex spreadsheets) skills and new systems.

Responsibilities

Collaborate with Merchandising to develop pre-season customer segment productivity targets (assortment architecture) and to manage product life-cycles
Develop pre-season tops-down and bottom-up sales and inventory plans, informing financial and inventory decisions
Review monthly department OTBs and product forecasts and reconcile against plans, while identifying risks and opportunities
Work with Allocation partners to ensure in-season allocation and replenishment
Manage in-season profitability to achieve or exceed seasonal performance, including promotional strategies and markdown management
Support Retail Planning Director to recommend profitable inventory decisions
Conduct quantitative analysis to increase line profitability—monetize new opportunities and identify risks
Hindsight financial and assortment performance to develop next seasons' inventory plans
Identify opportunities in processes and tool improvements.
Participate in additional projects and work streams that support channel and company plans.