Senior Merchandise Planner, Men's Sportwear
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JOB DUTIES
Responsibilities include:
- Develop seasonal merchandise plans with Buyer, DMM, and MMP to maximize opportunities and minimize risk
- Partner with Buyer on monthly projections
- Forecast and validate each Buying Office's projections to ensure sales, gross margin and inventory objectives are being met
- Analyze business
- Develop and adapt financial tools to better manage Buying Office business
- Liaison between corporate Planning and Buying Office
- Manages projection process
- Drafts product and location plans
- Reviews product allocation
- Provides financial analysis
- Communicates with the stores and vendors on a regular basis
- Develop financial skills of the assistant buyers
- Develop strategic plans, budgets, and recaps
- Performs additional tasks as required
JOB REQUIREMENTS
- Strong leadership, management, communication, customer service, and organization skills
- Flexible and able to perform in a fast paced, changing environment
- Exceptionally strong Excel skills
- Understanding of concepts related to merchandise planning such as projections, gross margin, sell through, etc.
- Functional/Technical skills
- Customer focus
- Process Management
- Strategic Agility
- Progressive with an innovative approach
- Self-motivated and action/results oriented
- Managing and measuring work
- 2 - 5 years of retail experience as an Assistant Buyer, Department Manager, Planner, or other similar positions, or if internal, must have completed the Executive Development Program
- Bachelor's degree from a four-year college or university
To perform this job successfully, an individual must be able to perform each job duty satisfactorily. The requirements listed above are representative of the knowledge, skills and/or ability required.