Wholesale Planner (Full Price Channel)
About The Position
The Wholesale Planner (Full-Price Channel) partners closely with the Senior Planner to support the financial and merchandise planning strategy across a portfolio of wholesale apparel brands, including Lucky Brand, Aéropostale, and future business initiatives. This role is responsible for developing forecasts, analyzing business performance, and delivering actionable insights that drive sales growth, maximize profitability, and support strategic business decisions. The ideal candidate is a highly analytical and commercially savvy planning professional with strong wholesale experience, exceptional retail math and forecasting skills, and the ability to turn complex data into meaningful business recommendations. As a key cross-functional partner, this individual will collaborate closely with Sales, Merchandising, and Operations teams to optimize business performance while leveraging both traditional planning methodologies and AI-powered tools to enhance forecasting accuracy, reporting capabilities, and overall decision-making.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Merchandising, Statistics, or a related field.
- 3-5+ years of experience in wholesale planning, merchandise planning, forecasting, or other analytical roles within the apparel, retail, or consumer products industry.
- Wholesale apparel experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing financial plans, forecasts, and business performance analysis.
- Strong understanding of merchandising, forecasting, retail math, and wholesale business drivers.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables, advanced formulas.
- Experience with planning systems, business intelligence platforms, and reporting tools preferred.
Nice To Haves
- Experience supporting multi-brand and multi-channel wholesale businesses.
- Experience with MicroStrategy, Full Circle, Skypad, SAP, Seventh Online, or NuOrder a plus.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Power BI AI capabilities, or predictive analytics solutions to automate reporting, improve forecasting, identify business opportunities, and drive productivity.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for applying emerging technologies to modern planning practices.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Senior Planner in developing annual, seasonal, and monthly financial plans by brand, account, and product category.
- Manage account-level forecasting and in-season business projections, identifying risks and opportunities to achieve sales and margin objectives.
- Analyze trends, bookings, shipments, and account performance to support informed business decisions.
- Support budget, forecast, and long-range planning processes across multiple wholesale channels.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance weekly, monthly, and seasonal reporting packages.
- Monitor and analyze key business metrics including sales, bookings, margins, productivity, and account performance.
- Deliver timely business insights and strategic recommendations to planning leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Prepare executive recaps, hindsight analyses, and ad hoc reporting to support decision-making.
- Support planning activities across key wholesale customers, including department stores, specialty retailers, e-commerce partners, and marketplace channels.
- Analyze customer buy patterns, market performance, and product productivity to inform future planning strategies.
- Partner with Sales teams to evaluate opportunities, assess business health, and support account growth initiatives.
- Provide financial recaps and performance analysis during key market and selling milestones.
- Build strong partnerships with Sales, Merchandising, Production, Operations, and Supply Chain teams.
- Communicate risks, opportunities, and business performance clearly to stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization.
- Support strategic initiatives, process improvements, and enhancements to planning tools and reporting capabilities.
- Champion data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Benefits
- medical/dental/vision
- term life insurance
- paid vacation/holidays
- 401(k) with Company match
- associate discount on Catalyst Brands merchandise
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What This Job Offers
Job Type
Full-time
Career Level
Mid Level
