Merchandise Planner
Merchandise Planner
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Job Description
Serving the needs of all families with young childrenCarters Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children encompassing Carters OshKosh Bgosh Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work constant learning genuine people and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carters.
How youll make an impact:
Do you have a real passion for forecasting and planning We are very excited to have an opportunity available for a Merchandise Planner to join the Carters team! This Planning role will be responsible for developing short and midrange financial plans as well and providing insight on long range plans and outlook. The ideal candidate should be entrepreneurial in that their approach to planning with a desire to identify growth opportunities.
- Create 18 month bottom up financial plans by product classification aligned to top down financial targets to establish annual budgets and open to buy
- In partnership with the buyer align assortment strategies (store assortments pricing buy quantities) to achieve the financial plans
- Manage 1218 month style level ladder plans/ forecasts to determine optimal replenishment flows in alignment with retail turn and weeks of supply goals
- Partner with buying monthly to execute replenishment orders while staying within overall receipt targets
- Gain preseason alignment on promotional strategies working heavily with Buying as well as Pricing teams
- Execute monthly/as needed reforecast of comprehensive financial plan aligned topdown goals
- Reforecast sales margin and inventory based on current trends weekly or as needed
- Partner with finance to provide insight for long range plans and strategy to support future growth
- Provide analytical support to the buying team by quantifying impact of strategic promotion and assortment changes
- Build a partnership with allocation in executing store receipts strategies buy targets launch minimums and program setups
- Communicate with business process and IT teams to advance system capabilities or troubleshoot data discrepancies
- Provide ad hoc business reports and analysis as needed
Wed Love to hear from you if:
Must have:
- 4 years of experience in planning principles financial budgeting retail fundamentals ad hoc reporting and analysis
- Bachelors degree required
- Planning principles financial budgeting retail fundamentals ad hoc reporting and analysis
- Strong analytical skills proficient with planning systems (e.g. JDA) proficient with Microsoft Excel
- Ability to synthesize large amounts of data into trends and initiate action
- Work crossfunctionally with Inventory Analysts Business Process teams and store partners
Preferred skills and experience:
- Accountable selfmotivated handson dynamic leadership style that can productively impact both strategic and tactical financial outcomes
- Strong communication and presentation skills. Poise and comfort presenting to all levels of leadership
- Experience managing and motivating team members
Our Team Members:
- Lead Courageously: Have a strong sense of personal values that align with our Company values
- Collaborates Broadly: Build cooperation trust and thrive in a consensus driven environment
- Customer Focus: Proactively seek opportunities to leverage data and factbased insights to serve customers and/or internal clients
- Drive Growth: Set aggressive goals and implement plans precisely
- Cultivates Innovation: Respectfully challenge the weve always done it this way mentality and explore new ways to achieve desired outcomes
Make a career at Carters:
- Career Development: Success starts from within and we have several paths from which you can choose to enhance your career evolution. From Carters University to Toastmasters to mentorship programs and more we encourage you to utilize these tools to elevate your professional prowess.
NOTE: This job description is not intended to be allinclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description.
Carters is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race color religion gender gender identity sexual orientation national origin genetics disability age veteran status or any other status protected by federal state or local law.
Employment Type
Full-Time
