Job description
Client Overview: Our client is a luxury menswear brand
Merchandise/ Planner Temp Responsibilities:
Merchandising & Buying
- Preform weekly allocations to the Outlet Stores to ensure proper goods coverage in line with their capacities that supports financial targets
- Monitor and execute distribution plan considering seasonal calendar
- Provide updates on business as it relates to last forecast, identifying trends, and highlighting selling that exceeds or falls short of expectation
- Partner with manager to propose markdown and promotional strategies to maximize profitability on the life of an item or category
- Monitor seasonal performance and mix of MFO for accurate assortment planning
Business Development
- Provide recommendations for strategic planning around growth targets for each Outlet market to manager
- Manage Seasonality analysis setting directions to support improvements to store and space productivity
- Maintain Outlet planning calendar to ensure all key deliverables are met and implemented
Planning & Budgeting
- Ensure decision making process alignment with Finance, Retail and Wholesale
- Partner with manager on OTB / MFO recommendations considering EOS projections from other channels, Sell Thru direction and individual market needs
- Manage and maintain Brand Strategy and Pricing Tool for OUT (RIS)
In Season Operations
- Analyze and forecast receipt management and execute consolidations
- Monitor business trend vs BDG/FC, identify risk and opportunities and deploy action plan
- Set priorities and parameters for weekly replenishment
- Partner cross functionally with wholesale/retail for off-price sales and ensure all product details are in system
Merchandise/ Planner Temp Qualifications:
- Minimum 1-2 years of merchandise planning, allocation, merchandising, strategy, or business analytics, preferably in the Retail industry and/or Outlet experience is preferred
- Bachelor's degree is required
- Expert command of retail math concepts, applications and statistical analysis
- Ability to interact and report on business with cross functional teams and across multiple levels of management
- Advanced skills in MS Excel and experience navigating multiple systems and large sets of data
Expired job