Sr Planner

Tailored Brands•Dublin, CA

3d•$133,494 - $175,000•Onsite

About The Position

We currently have an exciting opportunity for an experienced and motivated Senior Planner to join our Merchandise Planning team. In this role, you will be responsible for the development of merchandise plans and the creation and management of forecast and open-to-buy strategies. This role works as an integral part of the Merchandising, Planning, and Replenishment teams by identifying risks and opportunities and making recommendations to ensure that we are maximizing our inventory investment. The Senior Planner is responsible for achieving sales, margin, and inventory objectives for the Company and working in conjunction with the Merchant team. This role also serves as a team leader as well as a point person for planning projects.

Requirements

Bachelor’s degree
12+ years of experience in a planning role preferred
Retail Apparel experience with Direct Sourced products a plus
Sound analytical, financial, strategic, and problem-solving skills
Extremely detail oriented and willing to analyze down to the lowest level
Proficiency in Microsoft Office including extremely strong ability in Microsoft Excel
Microstrategy reporting ability a plus
Blue Yonder EP Planning a plus
Replenishment proficiency a plus
Ability to build partnerships, manage teams, and work closely with a diverse group of people

Responsibilities

Develops merchandise open-to-buy and inventory plans
Assists Merchandising in the development of strategic and assortment plans
Develops merchandise financial plans and ensures reconciliation with top-down goals
Ensures plans reconcile and meet brand/ company objectives
Manages business to help meet company targets on sales, gross margin performance, sell-through, markdowns, inventory levels and turn
Analyzes performance data and provides business and analytical support to merchant teams
Drives allocation strategy to ensure the right level of products are allocated to stores based on trend and historical performance
Manages execution of the day-to-day merchandise allocation and replenishment processes that support desired inventory levels and sales/margin objectives
Monitors sell-thru performance and suggest appropriate product movement and markdown tactics where appropriate
Monitors business/item performance and highlights exceptions to merchandising team
Performs quantitative end-of-season analysis and provides information and key highlights to merchants