Urban Outfitters Senior Merchandise Planner

Urban Outfitters•Philadelphia, PA

About The Position

Urban Outfitters is looking for a Senior Merchandise Planner who can creatively lead and manage the planning team to maximize sales and profit by developing sound merchandise plans that support the company’s goals for sales, turn, and margin.

Requirements

Customer Obsessed
Strong financial and analytical skills
Results oriented
Creative problem solver/ “outside the box” thinker
Strong communication skills
Works well in teams
Superior excel skills

Responsibilities

Working closely with various departments to ensure that corporate initiatives and strategies are accurately reflected in the plan and forecast of sales, inventory, and receipts
Clearly communicating, developing, and providing reporting and analysis to highlight important trends and/or support key initiatives
Taking trend and merchant direction and interpreting it into a profitable strategy
Challenging the status quo
Managing, coaching, and developing planning team
Motivating/pushing the planning team to maximizing opportunities
Managing the OTB and inventory for area of responsibility; ability to break down the business and find profit driving opportunities
Supporting and developing the division through information systems
Aiding in the budgeting process
Clearly recognize the difference between retail and direct sales trends and opportunities and understanding how to maximize both businesses
Demonstrate a clear understanding of how to master managing inventory between channels
Understanding and being able to quantify the financial impact of any significant new, growing, and declining categories
Aiding buying team in planning future buys based on history and current item/category selling