Category Planner Target Plus-2
Category Planner Target Plus-2
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Job Description
About us:
Target is one of the most loved consumer retail brands in the world. At Target we are constantly improving and innovating our digital shopping experience. Target Plus is one such strategic business initiative offering meaningful guest experiences by bringing high demand brands on trend selection to Target. We are a oneofakind marketplace carefully curated and built keeping in mind guests current and changing needs along with tapping into futuristic market trends.
As a category planner for Target you will be responsible for creating effective financial and category growth plans by developing accurate forecasts and actionable strategies in partnership with category management. You will oversee financial planning forecasting and analysis for your category acting as the liaison between category management and FP&A. This role enables you to influence key strategy decisions and support divisional objectives through category expertise and crossfunctional partnerships. A significant portion of your responsibilities will involve interpreting financials for the category conducting what if analysis and providing recommendations including risk mitigation strategies
Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
Key Responsibilities:
Business Plan Strategy & Alignment
- Analyzing past years performance to understand trends and derive insights
- Annual financial plan: Building blocks Market trends LRP goals traffic ASP order growth) including template design & framework
- Developing Annual Plans that deliver Long Range Plan / MultiYear Strategy Plan growth goals for the pyramid
- Tracking plan and identifying gaps and suggest growth levers
- Define financial Guardrails for assortment at the category level (Sales Margins SKU count goals etc.
- Partner with category on key seller level planning and budgeting
Build Financial Plans & Risk Management
- Build granular financial plans to maximize category profitability (Pyramid Division & Partner level)
- Lead preforecast & forecast routines with insights & devise risk mitigation plan
- Build promotion demand forecast & work with partner teams (product promotions operations) on opportunity sizing & feed into forecasting
- Planning and forecasting Tools and Templates incl partner planning framework
Crossfunctional collaboration
- Extensive work with global teams on aligning templates opportunity sizing and growth numbers
- Partner with crossfunctional teams on assessing their impact on business
- Presenting to senior leadership during business reviews
- Weekly business recapping on financials with RCA for missing plan with recovery plans
- VP profit monitoring & improvements
- Collaborate on assortment planning and channel optimization strategies
About you: Join us if you are
- Minimum 56 years of experience in merchandise planning forecasting financial planning. Preferably managing an ecommerce business
- Sales Forecasting Proficiency in predicting future sales volumes based on historical data market trends marketing campaigns seasonal fluctuations and competitor analysis.
- Market Trend Analysis Understanding of ecommerce industry trends consumer behavior and emerging technologies to incorporate into financial forecasts.
- Scenario Planning: Ability to create multiple financial forecasts based on different market conditions (bestcase worstcase most likely).
- Budgeting and Forecasting Tools: Familiarity with specialized financial planning software and tools.
- Self starter with high ownership
- Flexible resilient and comfortable working in grey areas that are constantly changing.
- A wizard with numbers Can convert data into insights and comfortable working on business modeling
- Can do story telling with numbers and able to read trends
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Employment Type
Full-Time
