Merchandise Planner
CarharttPosition Details
Title: Women's Merchandise Planner
Department: Merchandise Planning
Reports to: Manager of Merchandise Planning
Location: Remote / Dearborn, MI
Job Classification: Exempt
Job Summary
The Merchandise Planner develops, manages, and executes sales, inventory, and margin plans that tie to financial targets for multiple business units and product categories. This individual contr
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ibutes to the success of the organization by forging strong cross-functional partnerships, correlating historical and current trends, planning and forecasting multiple monthly and annual KPIs, optimizing inventory, and presenting, articulating, and defending their plan position.
The Women's Merchandise Planner manages a designated book of business, working with other Planners, Sr. Planners, Inventory, Supply Chain, and Merchant counterparts.
Associate Responsibilities
• Develop and cultivate Women's Planning/Merchandising partnerships to create long-range, pre-season, and in-season forecasts, and align inventory strategies with organizational strategies and targets.
• Support the pre-season plan review process, in-season reforecasting, and post-season hindsighting. Review category forecast/plan changes in relation to prior forecasts, prior year(s), and targets. Present, articulate, and support the plan or forecast position in relation to global targets.
• Partner with Women's Merchandising and Inventory teams to identify areas of opportunity within the assortment to drive sales and margin and mitigate inventory liability using historical trends and analyses, coupled with market and consumer insights.
• Partner with cross-functional teams to efficiently manage the product life cycle for the assigned book of business.
• Lead and facilitate monthly/weekly meetings with key partners to understand current trends and proactively identify actionable risks and opportunities.