Merchandise Planner

If you were in the Merchandise Planner role now, here are some of the core activities you would be doing:

Owning seasonal and annual merchandise financial plans for your assigned category, including sales, margin, and inventory, and tracking performance to targets
Managing Global OTB across mid-term and long-term horizons, reconciling bottom-up demand plans to merchandise financial plans
Partnering with Global Merchandising to develop assortment strategies that balance category growth with inventory productivity
Analyzing sell-through, margin, and inventory performance and bringing clear, actionable recommendations to your manager and cross-functional partners
Tracking assortment and line plan architecture targets and identifying opportunities within your category

Here are some of the things you could be working on in the future:

Developing a stronger category point of view that drives more proactive recommendations on assortment, inventory positioning, and OTB
Contributing to hindsight and postmortem analysis that sharpens how the team tracks and forecasts category performance season over season

Are you our next Merchandise Planner?

You have a bachelor's degree in Business, Supply Chain Management, Finance, or a related field
You have 3-5+ years of experience in Merchandise Planning or Demand Planning, preferably in a global consumer goods or apparel environment
You have experience in category forecasting, OTB and inventory planning, and margin and profitability analysis, with experience with global and regional nuances
You have experience managing assortment and line plan architecture targets and understand how product structure connects to financial outcomes
You bring strong retail math fluency and solid data analytics capability, including the ability to conduct postmortem analysis and translate findings into forward-looking recommendations
You are a strong collaborator and build productive partnerships with cross-functional teams
You communicate your analysis and recommendations with clarity
You are commercially minded, identify opportunities within your category, and can drive strategic plans for your area through data-led performance tracking