Job description
Our client is a well known and timeless apparel brand.Role Overview: The Inventory Planner develops, executes, and communicates merchandise financial plans and strategies that support the merchandising, marketing and financial objectives of one or more departments.
Responsibilities:
- Manage the financial success of one or more divisions/departments by meeting sales, gross margin and inventory productivity goals.
- Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by division/department and class.
- Collaborate with merchandising to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities by division/department and class.
- Create pre-season sales, gross margin and inventory plans by division/department and class that support product strategies.
- Reconcile top-down to bottom-up class plans.
- Recap and analyze actual sales results to plan, and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a weekly, monthly and quarterly basis.
- Own open to buy forecasts.
- Present financial forecast and supporting action plans in open to buy/monthly forecast meetings.
- Re-forecast sales and manage inventory for all basic styles to meet division/department financial goals.
- Present financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings.
- Assign responsibilities and set clear, measurable objectives for direct report.
- Develop direct reports to achieve peak performance and individual career goals.
- Able to negotiate with and influence peers and members of cross-functional team
- Wholesale experience is a plus
- Able to build and maintain productive relationships with peers and cross-functional teams
- Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities
- Able to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines
- Demonstrates strong listening, written and oral communication skills
- Able to formally present business strategies and action plans
- Demonstrates logical analysis and problem solving skills
- Able to interpret current business results to identify key learnings and develop future strategies
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