Position Overview:
Frankies Bikinis is looking for a passionate candidate for the newly created position of Associate Planner. The Associate Planner will report to the Director of Merchandising. An ideal candidate will be hardworking, resourceful, detail-oriented and highly organized. As a member of the Merchandising & Planning department, you will help maximize sales in stores across all categories (Swim, Apparel & Activewear). You will be supporting our Planner and Director of Merchandising to leverage data primarily to build product strategies that contribute to category growth within all brick-and-mortar retail stores.
Primary Job Responsibilities:
· Partner with Director of Merchandising on crafting and executing our growth plans across all categories within stores.
· Provide weekly retail sales reporting and analysis across category, product attributes, and market.
· Provide recommendations for immediate actions on a weekly basis.
· Create SKU count and depth plans by category and store.
· Partner with Planner to build initial style level assortment for each store & style level unit projections for each store.
· Collaborate with the Director of Retail to optimize Retail Store sales plans & allocations with a focus on assortment diversity & inventory productivity.
· Report on Retail sales on a store, style and size level to create future allocations.
· Manage and advise on styles to RTV from retail stores.
· Create retail assortment presentations by stores for VM purposes.
· Use anecdotal notes from Retail associates to create future allocations.
· Plan replenishment to ensure optimized stock levels in all bestsellers. Utilize planning models to track performance by SKU and assess risk/opportunity per SKU & market.
· Analyze size selling & continuously optimize size breaks by category & market.
· Evaluate trend in return rate at stores and opportunities to minimize returns.
· Perform in-season and post-season hindsight reporting by store location.
· Help develop seasonal product plans - Analyze SKU productivity & partner with merchandising on style count & color extensions for optimal store productivity.
Education/Requirements:
· Bachelor’s degree
· 2-3 years of experience in planning for a contemporary fashion brand
· Highly analytical. Self-motivated, positive, adaptable, and dependable attitude.
· A team player, you contribute positively to team dynamic, cultivate passion and productivity. You are solutions driven, are an efficiency advocate and a strategic thinker.
· Understanding of both the physical and digital retail space (DTC) as well as wholesale preferred
· Highly Proficient in Excel
Salary Range:
The base salary range for this position is $60,000 to $70,000 per year. Actual salary may vary based upon, but not limited to, candidate’s related work experience. This position is also eligible for benefits.
About Frankies Bikinis:
Frankies Bikinis is a global online destination for fashion-forward swimwear founded in 2012 by Francesca Aiello. Known for high-end fabrics, fashion forward shapes, and cheeky bottoms, our bikinis look great on everybody. Since the company’s inception, the brand has evolved into a lifestyle brand, expanding product offerings to include apparel, beauty, and footwear. Frankies Bikinis’ designs can be found in better retail boutiques including Victoria’s Secret, Revolve, Intermix, Free People, Kith, and Browns. The largest selection of Frankies Bikinis can be found in one of our stores or at frankiesbikinis.com.
We’re a fast-paced, highly-collaborative, customer-centric, swimwear-loving and solutions-oriented team. We’re also big fans of dogs, snacks, and not taking ourselves too seriously. We’re always looking for intelligent, kind, and passionate and ambitious people to join us and help us bring our amazing products to the world.
Everyone is welcome at Frankies Bikinis - we’re passionate about building a team that reflects the diversity of our community and creating an environment where our differences are celebrated. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity or expression, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, or veteran status.
Why Join Us?
· Our team is made up of friendly, funny, welcoming, low-ego, and passionate people -- who also happen to be great at what they do. We all know the people you work with can make or break a job and so we go to great lengths to protect this amazing culture.
· We have a hybrid remote work model where we expect you to be in the office 3 days per week, Monday - Wednesday
· We work hard but are well-rounded. Breaks to pet dogs, hang with coworkers, and, if you are in the office, leaving at a reasonable time is encouraged.
· Care about growth? So do we. We have tons of exciting growth opportunities for our amazingly talented team. Not the type of place where you wait for your boss to quit before you can get promoted. New projects and business needs pop up all the time, and we always look internally first.
· All the other stuff you’d expect - great benefits including fully company-paid health insurance, a 401k plan with company matching, fun team outings, great product discounts and much more.
