Job description
Planning Associate Consultant needed for a luxury ecommerce site. The Must Haves for all fashionistas can be found here with just one- click!
The Planning Associate will support the Women Merchandise planning team maintain seasonal financial projections and strategies while identifying risks and opportunities to improve the overall business process.
Planning Associate Responsibilities:
- Manage and maintain pre/in season financial and code plans at the OTB category level
- Complete monthly OTB process by analyzing performance and reforecasting all OTB elements by category
- Ensure financial objectives align with company strategy (revenue, margin, returns, cancels, inventory levels)
- Identify opportunities and risks through analysis and reporting
- Partner with Merchandising teams to develop and validate bottoms up plans
- Monitor merchandise inventory positions to maximize sales, profitability and achieve operational objectives
- Drive process innovation and improvement
- Manage liability through developing plans for markdown cadence (inventory, ST% projection, and pricing)
- Complete end of season post mortem to utilize and make recommendations for future seasons
- Collect information to create action plan and present finding to cross functional teams
- Establish relationships and build trust with buying counterparts
Planning Associate Requirements:
- Bachelor’s degree, or equivalent required
- 3+ years of retail buying, planning or financial analysis experience required
- Ecommerce experience preferred
- Effective communication and presentation skills
- Ability to pivot and change course
- Positive attitude for working in fast-paced, collaborative and entrepreneurial environment
- Results driven; strategic, conceptual and innovative thinker
- Comfortable analyzing and interpreting data to drive decisions
- Expert command of retail math concepts, applications and statistical analysis
- Advanced Excel with experience with Macros is required
*This is a temporary position for a 6+ month assignment, working full time hours.
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