Planner, RFNA

Tory Burch • New York, NY

21d • $105,000 - $135,000

About The Position

The Planner, Retail Planning is responsible for analyzing and forecasting the North America Retail channel through strategic merchandise planning, controlled inventory management, and actionable reporting and insights. The role maintains monthly divisional open-to-buy (OTB) plans for select categories and communicates both pre-season and in-season plans. Success requires strong retail math and analytical skills, planning experience, creative problem-solving, and the ability to work in a fast-paced, collaborative environment.

The Planner develops and maintains financial plans and forecasts, monitors inventory and receipts, identifies business risks and opportunities, and recommends actions to support sales and margin objectives. The role works closely with buying, corporate merchandise planning, and production teams on assortment plans, key items, buys, stock needs, and promotional and seasonal periods. It also analyzes business performance and prepares reporting and insights to inform decisions.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office, including Excel and PowerPoint.
• At least 4 years of experience working in a planning or finance-related field.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Strong analytical skills paired with strategic business acumen.
• Detail-oriented, results-driven, highly motivated, and entrepreneurial.
• Strong organizational skills.

Nice To Haves

• Experience with planning and business reporting applications.
• Prior ecommerce experience is highly desired.

Responsibilities

• Maintain monthly and yearly OTB plans, including reforecasting sales, margin, receipts, and inventory.
• Review plans and forecasts, identify risks and opportunities, and drive action plans.
• Communicate business performance in weekly meetings and monthly OTB meetings.
• Recommend strategic actions to maximize sales and margin, optimize inventory, and mitigate risk.
• Ensure on-order and committed receipts are delivering on time to support forecasts.
• Recommend chasing or reflowing receipts as appropriate.
• Create annualized financial plans for select categories, including sales, gross margin, receipt, and inventory targets, aligned with the merchandise financial plan.
• Manage buy tools and completion of buys in collaboration with the buying team.
• Ensure key item plans are reflected in the assortment.
• Work with the buying team to ensure the final assortment supports sales based on historical insights and appropriate inventory buys to achieve sales and sell-through targets, including during key ecommerce event periods.
• Review and manage key item planners weekly, and communicate demand requirements to corporate merchandise planning and production based on the buy calendar.
• Report key item performance and trends in weekly business meetings.
• Collaborate with buying to understand stock needs for fashion best sellers and key marketing messages.
• Prepare for promotional and seasonal periods by ensuring sufficient stock overall and in expected best sellers.
• Analyze event performance against forecast and last year, and communicate results.
• Review pricing and markdown analysis with Buying and support price-change and promotional-strategy decisions.
• Analyze sales and inventory reports and develop strategies to achieve plan.
• Complete analysis to support the buy process, including size-level analysis.

Benefits

• Generous benefits to support health, financial security, and wellness.
• Competitive pay and rewards for high performance.
• Employee discount and access to exclusive sample sales.
• Free on-demand executive coaching.
• Paid volunteer days and opportunities to give back through the Tory Burch Foundation.

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Mid Level