Senior Planner, Merchandise Planning

Levi Strauss & Co.•San Francisco, CA

11d•$92,300 - $125,000•Hybrid

About The Position

Levi Strauss & Co. is seeking a Senior Planner, Merchandise Planning to join their team. This role involves collaborating with Merchants to develop productivity targets, presenting sales and inventory plans, and implementing in-season activities. The Senior Planner will manage in-season profitability, work with partners to manage product lifecycles, and conduct quantitative analysis to increase line profitability. This position will also manage the OTB waterfall, perform analysis on financial and assortment performance, and assist in setting team department goals. The role requires taking ownership of additional projects and leading initiatives across all DTC channels to ensure inventory profitability.

Requirements

Bachelor's Degree, however, a combination of college education and related work experience may be used as a substitute
5+ years of Planning experience, with some time in eCommerce or DTC businesses
Strong analytical skills to interpret meaningful themes from quantitative data
Communicate important financial measures, and how they are used in systems/tools
Well versed in Microsoft Excel (can perform complex functions) and open to new systems
Understand retail math, merchandising financials and profitability KPIs

Responsibilities

Collaboration with Merchants to develop Consumer & Category segment productivity targets (assortment architecture)
Present bottom-up sales and inventory plans, and reconcile against the tops-down financial plans to inform financial and inventory decisions
Help implement in-season activities within the team including forecasts and retail sales
Review monthly retail forecast and reconcile against plans to determine dept OTB
Work with Allocation partners to ensure in-season allocation, replenishment, consumption, and receipt flow
Manage in-season profitability to achieve or exceed seasonal performance
Work with Retail Merchants, Allocation and Category Inventory Manager (CIM), partners to manage product life cycle
Conduct quantitative analysis to increase line profitability—identify and monetize new opportunities and identify risks
Manage OTB waterfall from Demand to Net Sales, with demonstratable understanding of the puts-takes of the eCommerce business and financial flows
Perform analysis on seasons' financial and assortment performance to develop next seasons' inventory plans
Assist channel lead in setting team department goals for revenue, gross margin, inventory, and style/color productivity that meet overall assigned channel/regional financial metrics
Determine and recognize in season process and opportunities
Suggest strategies to grow sales on key categories / items
Take ownership of additional projects that support channel and company plans.
Lead projects across all DTC and work across the channel matrix with their “company hat” to ensure inventory profitability for all