Sr Merch Planning Analyst

Sprouts Farmers Market • Phoenix, AZ

4d

About The Position

The Sr Merchandise Planner leads and coordinates key planning, forecasting and reporting processes, and analyzes business initiatives to identify opportunities/risks as well as drive business results for the Merchandising department. The Sr Merch Planner is expected to utilize an analytical/financial background to provide insights and recommendations to cross-functional business partners. This role will partner with the Merchandising leadership team to improve operational & financial performance.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business Administration, Accounting, Economics, Statistics, or a related field is required.
• 4+ years of planning/analytics experience in grocery/retail/CPG, with progressively increasing responsibilities.
• Experience manipulating large amounts of data to generate actionable insights and recommendations.
• Excellent analytical, problem-solving, and decision-making skills.
• Strong communication skills, and ability to speak comfortably to data-driven recommendations.
• Experience with budgeting and forecasting systems.
• Experience with PowerBI or similar data visualization tool.
• Expert in Microsoft Excel and Power Point.

Responsibilities

• Supports the development of long-range financial planning and annual budgets for sales and gross margin by business segment.
• Builds financial models to support accurate planning and influence decision-making.
• Supports forecast processes and summarizes forecast highlights, business drivers, risk and opportunities for merchandising department.
• Develop and refine forecasting methodologies and operating mechanisms to continuously improve forecast accuracy.
• Provides analysis and recommendations to help merchants achieve department revenue and profit goals.
• Regular reviews of pricing, promotion, and assortment to help support decision-making.
• Leverage consumer insights and data, combined with a structured test-and-learn approach, to maximize growth opportunities.
• Prepare weekly and monthly presentations for Merchandising leadership.
• Key holiday, event, and promotional effectiveness reporting.
• Reporting on key business metrics, including category/brand drivers, sales/margin opportunities, and macro/micro trends.
• Partner with the business to identify variances to forecast/budget, and understand and relay ongoing implications.
• Serves as project lead for ad hoc projects by managing objectives, deliverables, and key milestones with minimal supervision.
• Supports manager in the coaching & development of junior team members.
• Work cross-functionally with multiple business units to support key outcomes in support of the merchandising team.
• Other duties as assigned

Benefits

• Competitive pay
• Sick time plan that you can use to support you or your immediate families health
• Vacation accrual plan
• Opportunities for career growth
• 15% discount for you and one other family member in your household on all purchases made at Sprouts
• Flexible schedules
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• 401(K) Retirement savings plan with a generous company match
• Company paid life insurance
• Contests and appreciation events throughout the year full of prizes, food and fun!
• Bonus based on company and/or individual performance
• Affordable benefit coverage, including medical, dental and vision
• Health Savings Account with company match
• Pre-tax Flexible Spending Accounts for healthcare and dependent care
• Company paid short-term disability coverage
• Paid parental leave for both mothers and fathers
• Paid holidays
• DailyPay

What This Job Offers

• Job Type: Full-time
• Career Level: Senior