Merchandise Planner
Midtown
Salary: $100,000- $110,000
Company Profile: An apparel company is looking for a Merchandise Planner who will focus on forecasting, planning, building business for the organization. This role will focus mainly on brick and mortar to ensure successful assortment strategy for customers. This organization has National Branded and Private Label Apparel and deals with one of the nation’s leading retail stores. They are looking for additional support for their current and future growth.
The Merchandise Planner will be responsible for the following:
- Building business financial plans/budgets through data-driven historical analysis, Item Creation and Maintenance
- Identify sales and profit opportunities/liabilities and make recommendations to department
- Run and analyze daily/weekly sales and inventory reports
- Collaborate with replenishment counterpart weekly to review shipping forecasts to maximize sales trend
- Compile assortment analysis to determine contract order quantities by style, color and size
The Merchandise Planner should have the following qualifications:
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of merchandise planning experience
- Excellent verbal communication and writing skills
- Experience with PowerBI, Microsoft Excel, SQL (plus)
- Ability to partner and communicate with cross-functional teams
- Entrepreneurial spirit
This is a full-time hybrid position (2-3 days onsite) in Midtown, Manhattan
