Our client, a leader in the beauty industry, is looking for a Merchandising Planner to join their team. This will be a temporary role for 3 months. As a Merchandise Planner you would be responsible for helping with the execution of merchandising strategies, inventory management, and collaborate with buyers, planners, and store managers to optimize sales. An ideal candidate will have previous experience in merchandise coordination and be able to be a team player.
**Please Note this is a 3-month, hybrid position in San Francisco, pay will be 50 an Hour**
Responsibilities:
- Create pre-season Brand Budget Plans partnering with Inventory Directors, Merchants, and Vendors
- Develop New Brand strategies, projected sales, inventory by sku needs, and order flow set ups for launch timeframe.
- Own accurate monthly in season OTB sales, gm%, receipt, and inventory adjustment projections
- Partner with Demand Planning on forecast alignment and strategy
- Analyze and validate sales and inventory needs for Key Initiatives, Animations and promotions.
- Partner and drive allocation strategy with the Allocation team to support inventory merchandise strategy for newness, animation and events/promos.
- Partner and guide Merchandise Planning Assistant to prioritize newness/important orders, elevate and communicate delays in key launches.
Qualifications:
- 2-5 years of Planning experience
- Excellent technical skills – MS Office (specifically Excel, Word)
- Contributes new ideas and finds solutions to business challenges in merchandising, operations and finance.
- Must be detail-oriented, with strong organizational and task management skills.
- Clear and concise written, verbal, and presentation skills
- Strong organizational and time management skills; able to handle multiple priorities.
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to work in fast-paced, often-changing environment.
- Flexible; team player
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