Senior Merchandise Planner
Senior Merchandise Planner
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Job Description
Our family of brands is comprised of Schoolhouse the lighting home furnishings and lifestyle brand based in Portland Oregon; Food52 the communitydriven cooking and home company based in Brooklyn New York; and Dansk the heritage home brand founded in 1954.
Schoolhouse is a lighting home furnishings and lifestyle brand dedicated to thoughtful living and purposeful design. From iconic lighting to oneofakind homewares our mission is to provide a new generation of heirlooms that inspire people to create unique meaningful spaces in which to live and work.
About the Role
The Inventory Planning team is responsible for sales forecasts and optimal inventory receipt and assortment recommendations. The Senior Merchandise Planner partners with the merchants to build a product strategy that achieves the corporate sales and margin goals.
Key Responsibilities
- Maintain sound SKU level forecasts inclusive of units sales dollars and margin. Identifies trend changes and impacts to business.
- Collaborate with buyers and operations on launch buys. Balance opentobuy receipts between launch and existing product.
- Manage liquidation strategies to optimally sell through discontinued inventory
- Drive markdown strategies to achieve inventory turn targets
- Work with leadership in identifying targets for preseason and inseason
- Highlight business opportunities and risks associated with the current performance of the business
- Present business trends and forecast to management in monthly OpentoBuy meeting weekly business review and quarterly Investment Reviews & hindsights
- Implement category opentobuy and train teams on best OTB practices
Additional Functions
- Teamwork embodies the qualities and values of trustworthiness respect and accountability setting an example for everyone. Exhibits objectivity and openness to others views giving and welcoming feedback. Able to build morale and group commitments to goals and supports everyones efforts to succeed.
- Communication practices timely proactive and respectful communication with everyone.
- Change Management demonstrates a willingness to meet and adapt positively to the unexpected and changing needs of a dynamic growing company.
- Judgment exhibits sound and accurate judgment and includes appropriate people in decisionmaking process. Makes timely decisions.
- Planning/Organizing prioritizes and plans work activities and uses time efficiently developing realistic action plans.
- Technical Skills assesses own strengths and weaknesses and strives to continuously build knowledge and skills. Shares expertise with others.
- Quality Management looks for ways to improve and promote quality and exceptional customer experiences.
- Innovation continually reviews systems suggesting ways and tools to improve.
- SelfReview is committed to continual improvement.
Qualifications & Requirements
- Analytical and critical thinking; ability to make recommendations supported by data and qualitative information
- Strong communication skills (interpersonal relationshipbuilding) with a welldeveloped ability to speak read and write including writing clear and concise business communication
- Time management and problemsolving skills; ability to multitask and cope with conflicting constraints
- 810 years of merchandise planning experience preferred
- Selfmotivation; able to independently identify what needs to be done and then act
- Must be dependable and teamoriented
- Develop tools and training sessions with Planning & Merchandising Teams
- Step in as leader for Planning Manager as needed
- Proficient in Microsoft Office expertise with Excel and Word
- Working knowledge of SAP Business ByDesign or another ERP system
COMPENSATION
This is an exempt role. The salary range is $10000.00 $120000.00.
WORKING AT FOOD52
Food52 is committed to providing our team with a competitive benefits package. Some of our benefits include:
- Health benefits (medical dental and vision)
- Unlimited paid time off
- Monthly fitness reimbursement
- Citibike (NYC) or BikeTown (PDX) companysponsored annual membership
- Generous employee discount across our brand portfolio
- 401K
- FSA / HSA
EEO STATEMENT
Food52 is proud to be an equal opportunity workplace providing equal employment and advancement opportunities to all team members. We value diversity and recruit hire and promote individuals solely based on talent qualifications competence and merit. We evaluate candidates without regard to race color religion age sex sexual orientation gender identity national origin disability veteran status or other protected characteristics as required by law and as a matter of our company values.
Required Experience:
Senior IC
Employment Type
Full Time
