Director of Merchandise Planning

Seeking a highly motivated and experienced Director of Planning. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in overseeing the pre- and in-season planning of sales, inventory, and margin. You are expected to use analytics to solve complex problems and work closely with cross-functional teams to maximize the business as well as build templates, reports and processes in order to evolve the planning process and report results to upper management.

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Oversee, support, and develop the inventory planning team to accomplish company and department goals.
• Take a leading role in managing inventory.
• Balance workload priorities across in-season and pre-season planning deliverables to ensure successful execution of inventory management (including buy planning, pre-season forecasting and bi-weekly re-forecasting).
• Reconcile top-down & bottom-up department plans to division plans and forecasts.
• Analyze pre-season plan and merchandising strategies for significant changes against previous year.
• Create category level quarterly hindsight reports to drive strategic assortment decisions for future quarters and in-season management.
• Own and drive the OTB planning process as well as work with the OTB platform vendor when needed to evolve the OTB based on changing business needs.
• Identify, communicate, and execute tool and process improvement opportunities to the VP of Inventory Planning and Replenishment Buying.
• Execution of site promotions as needed.

QUALIFICATIONS

• Bachelor’s degree required (in Business or Finance preferred).
• Minimum of 8-10 years of retail apparel planning and OTB management experience.
• Minimum of 4 years of experience managing and motivating a team of at least 3.
• Strong excel skills, including (at a minimum) formulas such as sumifs, vlookups, etc. and pivot tables.
• Experience with NetSuite a Must
• Strong analytical skills and ability to understand financial metrics and reporting.