Job description
We have an immediate Planning/ Data Analyst opportunity for Lifestyle Brand located in Manhattan Beach!Seeking Assistant Planning/ Sales Analyst to monitor inventory and sales performance by providing analysis and action plants to optimize sales and inventory. Duties include developing seasonal forecasts and future merchandise plans to support Planning team on OTB.
If you have solid analytical, excel skills and are looking for an amazing entry level opportunity to grow within planning or merchandising team, this could be the opportunity for you!
This is a fulltime, or temp to hire position in Manhattan Beach, CA.
Salary: $70-90K
Responsibilities:
- Analyze Sales and Inventory position, provide analysis and direction to International Distributors
- Analyze historical Sales and Inventory data by reviewing large data sets and analyze weekly, monthly and quarerly sales and data
- Develop and implement reports
- Tracking and analyzing trends, forecasting and providing seasonal plans by SKU counts which include categories
- Partner with planner to manage product life cycles and inventory flow
- Report sales and inventory results to plan and LY on monthly and quarterly basis
- Partner with merchandising and store planning to review pre distributions
- 3+ yrs. Merchandise Planning, Buying or Data Analyst experience
- Bachelor's Degree or equivalent
- Strong aptitude of numbers and retail math
- Proficiency in financial metrics
- Strong analytical skills and working with large data sets
- Self motivated and great attention to detail
- Time management skills
- Advanced skills in Excel (Pivot Tables, V Look Ups)
- grad with degree in economics , finance, accounting, statistics, analytics, merch marketing preferred