Sr. Manager, Merchandise Planning & Pricing

Hanna Andersson • Portland, OR

252d • $110,000 - $125,000

About The Position

Hanna Andersson is a Portland, Oregon-based premier kids and baby clothing brand. Our clothes are made to play, made to last, and designed to let kids be kids. We have core commitments to design, quality, and sustainability, and we believe in helping families create meaningful everyday moments. These principles guide the Hanna Way, and lead to an experience authentically different from other children's brands. We cultivate our unique brand by hiring team members who believe in these values, own a customer service mindset, and who are innovative, results-oriented, and comfortable working in a collaborative and growth-driven work environment. We all share in our brand's success, and we actively encourage our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their daily lives.

Requirements

• 5+ years of prior planning experience in a retail environment preferred.
• Experience managing and developing direct reports.
• Ability to use sales financial data to make decisions and maximize profitability.
• Ability to develop and present written reports and analyses.
• Strong analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills and proficiency with retail math.
• Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
• Prior experience working with planning and inventory systems is preferred.
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills.
• Ability to maintain highly effective working relationships with cross-functional teams.
• Strong interpersonal skills, including the ability to influence and negotiate effectively.

Responsibilities

• Build and manage top-down and bottom-up merchandise plans that align with strategic growth initiatives and deliver on key financial metrics for each product season.
• Drive sales plans and inventory investment strategy for all assigned categories that support strategic initiatives and an exceptional customer experience.
• Partner with merchants to develop pre-season merchandise financial plans and strategies supporting product initiatives.
• Own and maintain the open-to-buy to manage and forecast the business and provide regular visibility to inventory levels.
• Communicate inventory position to management, re-forecast in-season open-to-buy plans based on monthly and seasonal performance.
• Provide regular analysis of business trends, pre-season, in-season, and post-season, along with the appropriate actions that support effective inventory management.
• Monitor product sales regularly to recommend product reorders/cancellations and markdown strategies.
• Partner with the sourcing team and provide long-range forecasts and seasonal item forecasts.
• Participate in the continual development and improvement of planning tools and processes.
• Lead the promotional price management for the inventory planning team.
• Partner with the team to develop promotional strategies that optimize AUR while managing to overall sales and inventory plans.
• Lead the executional timeline and provide guidance to the team in hitting deliverables.
• Roll up and assess each promotional event, and problem-solve as needed to hit top-down targets.
• Act as primary inventory management liaison for DC, including weekly unit sales forecasts.

Benefits

• $110,000 - $125,000 a year

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Manager
• Industry: Clothing, Clothing Accessories, Shoe, and Jewelry Retailers
• Education Level: Bachelor's degree