Senior Planner, Merchandise Planning

Levi Strauss•San Francisco, CA

9d•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 sales and inventory plans, implementing in-season activities, managing profitability, and conducting quantitative analysis to increase line profitability. The Senior Planner will also perform analysis on financial and assortment performance to develop future inventory plans and assist in setting team department goals. This position offers the opportunity to lead projects across all Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) channels and ensure inventory profitability for all channels.

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

Report to the Director of Merchandise Planning.
Collaborate 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.