Retail Planning Analyst - Intimate Apparel
About The Position
Dana-co, a leading design company of luxury lingerie, is looking for a Retail Planning Analyst to join our Strategic Planning team. This role provides reports and information to management, sales, merchandising, design, finance, production, and forecasting for the day-to-day running of the business and the execution of sales strategies and initiatives. The process includes maintaining and validating data collection and analyzing retail performance to develop strong conclusions about business trends and opportunities. Necessary qualities of a Retail Planning Analyst include a full understanding of retail metrics, how to spot data trends, accuracy, knowledge of the competitive landscape, and innovative analysis to validate business opportunities.
Requirements
- 5 years of professional experience as a planner, analyst, or buyer in department store industry
- Bachelor’s degree
- Advanced understanding of Excel, pivot tables, V-lookup, Macros & Microsoft Office
- Highly analytical, data-driven individual
- Highly organized and detail-oriented
- Excellent Math skills
- Accuracy
- Hands-on experience with inventory management and planning
- Excellent at teaming and collaboration
- Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks/projects
Nice To Haves
- Background in lingerie/intimates is a plus
Responsibilities
- Track retail sales and stock
- Maintain POS style selling database
- Publish weekly selling reports
- Seasonal market share analysis
- Create management reports
- Facilitate best seller meetings
- Monthly reports of new product launches
- Maintain detailed log of allowances
- Maintain projected markdown liabilities by account
- Provides detailed accrual at month end
- Track and report on Allowances, Givebacks and Gratis
- Maintain budget, shipping forecast process including gross shipment and dilution budgets, channel, basic to fashion ratios by account/brand, and flow by month
- Assist with researching and creating annual revenue and giveback budget spreadsheets
- Publish annual budgets to sales team and research exceptions
- Review and analyze financial reports from accounts by brand (OTB)
- Recommend actions and/or suggest alternatives by creating ‘what if’ scenarios
- Present to management
- Communicate between departments as needed
- Provide support to management (ad-hoc reporting)
- Provide support to Sales (ad hoc reporting)
- Partner with Forecasting to provide retail sales data as a check and balance against the forecast
Benefits
- Health, vision, and dental insurance
- Flexible spending accounts
- Paid Vacation, Sick, Personal time
- Paid Holidays
- 401(k) with a company match
- Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
- Short-term disability
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
- Bereavement Support
- Education Reimbursement
- Term life insurance
- AD&D
- Critical illness insurance
- Hospital indemnity insurance
- Accident insurance
- Group legal services
- Employee discounts
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
