Senior Merchandise Planner
Current• Provide in-depth analysis and present findings to executive management, influencing key business decisions• Identify risk and communicate potential impacts to sales, margin and inventory• Build rolling short-term and long-term forecasts for inline, new, and one-time buy products• Create and maintain forecast for sales, margin and inventory/Open to Buy• Craft models for multiple scenarios to predict sales, margin, and inventory impacts• Collaborate closely with category manager, inventory, pricing, logistics, and marketing to optimize overall business strategies• Create and maintain key item plans for brick and mortar and e-commerce• Drive suggestions for assortment, events, and marketing improvements based on channel clustering data and regional trends• Mentor inventory analysts and planners so they succeed and gain additional skill sets
