Senior Planner, PSD

Company Overview

Based in Irvine, CA, PSD Underwear is a designer, marketer, and distributor of high quality, affordable, and premium briefs, boxers, sports bras, and loungewear. The company serves a diverse customer base (men’s, women’s, and youth) through company-owned web, wholesale, and international distributors. PSD is renowned for its specialty designs and for collaborating with the biggest brands from Warner Bros., Nickelodeon, DC, Hooters, and Naruto. Additionally, the company has an unmatched and growing roster of celebrities, social media influencers, and top-tier athletes including, Bronny James, Jimmy Butler, Ja Morant, Marshawn Lynch, and Tyler Herro.

General Summary

PSD is seeking a highly analytical and collaborative individual to join our team. As Sr Planner, you will support the execution of PSD’s business across wholesale and direct-to-consumer channels by performing detailed analysis to create and maintain seasonal demand, supply, and inventory plans. You will socialize these plans with key functional partners on a regular basis to ensure cohesive execution of the business.

If you are an experienced Planner looking for a role where you can apply your skills to have a meaningful impact on the business, we’d love to hear from you!

Essential Job Functions

• Create and maintain demand plans at multiple levels of sales channel and product aggregation. Socialize plans with Finance, Merchandising, Sales, and other cross functional stakeholders to drive long-term strategic planning efforts across the business.

• Analyze historical data, sales forecasts, sell-in/through, and other market insights to translate annual financial objectives into seasonal demand plans. Collaborate with brand leadership, wholesale and direct-to-consumer sales channels, merchandising, and other stakeholders to obtain consensus.

• Utilize seasonal sales data and historical product lines to build future season line plan recommendations by category for merchandising and design team.

• Maintain ecommerce open-to-buy to guide volume, flow, and mix of ecommerce buys.

• Identify seasonal inventory buy needs in consideration of supply chain calendar milestones and demand plans. Obtain brand leadership, merchandising, and sales stakeholder alignment on buy needs and work with Production to ensure buys are executed.

• Analyze supply volume, mix, and flow relative to demand plans to identify inventory optimization strategies. Work with stakeholders to establish tactical plans to maximize margin on available inventory through sales channel allocations and to minimize inventory obsolescence.

• Complete ad hoc analytical requests and provide meaningful business insights to support various business objectives.

Required Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities

• Advanced knowledge of forecasting and planning tools and techniques

• Advanced Excel and data management skills.

• Ability to analyze complex data sets and identify key insights.

• Ability to build and maintain strong cross functional partnerships.

• Apparel industry experience a plus.

Required Education and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain, or equivalent field

• 5 years of forecasting and analytics experience

• 5 years of experience planning and forecasting a seasonal business

This a Hybrid role, requiring a minimum of 2 days per week in the Irvine, CA office. 

Physical Requirements

Seeing: Must be able to see well enough to read reports.
Hearing: Must be able to hear well enough to communicate with customers, vendors and employees.
Climbing/Stooping/Kneeling: Must be able to stoop or kneel to pick up products.
Lifting/Pulling/Pushing: Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds.
Fingering/Grasping/Feeling: Must be able to type and use technical sources.

PSD Underwear provides equal employment opportunities to all qualified individuals without regard to race, color, religion, sex, gender identity, sexual orientation, pregnancy, age, national origin, physical or mental disability, military or veteran status, genetic information, or any other protected classification. Equal employment opportunity includes, but is not limited to, hiring, training, promotion, demotion, transfer, leaves of absence, and termination. PSD Underwear takes allegations of discrimination, harassment, and retaliation seriously and will promptly investigate when such behavior is reported.

Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed, but are not to be seen as a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Also, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.