Wholesale Planner Skip Hop
Wholesale Planner Skip Hop
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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:
Skip Hop a consumer products company bringing must haves made better to life is seeking a Planner to manage select accounts for its North America Wholesale business.
The Planner role is a key business partner on the supply chain team in developing and executing strategic plans for select North American Wholesale customers. This role is responsible for delivering a highly reliable forecast and driving speed to insights in order to deliver the best service to our wholesale customers. This candidate has a cando analytical mindset and should possess an understanding of statistical forecasting methods with prior experience in historical data cleansing and applying bestfit models to optimize forecast accuracy across varying demand seasonality and volatility.
This role typical reports into Sr. Director of Planning and is based in our New York office in a hybrid work environment.
60: Developing Plans and Analyzing Business
- Develop execute and communicate strategic financial plans that support merchandising marketing and financial objectives for assigned accounts
- Collaborate with sales team on preseason plans line structure and SKU replacement strategy. Develop plans to grow key categories using bottomup sales analysis and present financial proposals to customers
- Create and update item level ladder plans / forecasts for brand portfolio comprising of 500 finished goods SKUS for assigned accounts
- Identify risks and opportunities to business and recommend strategies to achieve financial goals
- Review historical sales trends research demand drivers develop statistical analysis of market trends perform promo and event related analysis
- Track new product performance against forecasts to determine areas of opportunity and risks for sales planning and merchandising
30: Plan Management
- Manage inseason business to maximize sales margin and inventory. Support business reviews with account executives planners and customers. Recommend actions to correct variance to plan
- Attending incoming supply review meetings to understand and communicate risks to demand and orders cascading information down to sales partners
- Monitor and review end of season customer performance and profitability to suggest actions to improve assortment and strategy for following year
10: Process Improvement and Reporting
- Identify system enhancements to item level ladder tool that will drive efficiencies and increase quality of outputs
- Be a catalyst of continuous improvement in processes and business results continually strive to improve quality of information analytical techniques and systems
- Develop maintain and troubleshoot reporting tools in Tableau and MicroStrategy to drive efficiencies in daytoday workload
WED LOVE TO HEAR FROM YOU IF:
Must have:
- Strong business acumen and understanding of replenishment ladder planning financial budgeting retail and wholesale fundamentals and statistical forecasting systems and technology
- Analytical / genuine curiosity ability to evaluate financial and business indicators and translate data into actionable information to drive results
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills demonstrated ability to quickly manipulate large raw data sets to produce reporting/analysis that is intuitive and easy to read/understand advanced formulas and pivot tables etc.
- Team Player proficient in developing strong relationships with all levels of the business
Preferred skills and experience:
- 4 years of planning/forecasting experience preferably with replenishment durables business experience
- Desire to have a tangible business impact handson approach working in a fastgrowing highpressure environment
- Strong communication ability to lead courageously not afraid to speak frankly offer new ideas take calculated risks and support positive change
- Ability to synthesize and communicate complex topics clearly and concisely to peers and senior leadership strong communication and presentation skills
- Creative and customer focused; ability to develop practical yet innovative solutions
- Highly organized with a strong attention to detail
- Bachelors degree or equivalent experience.
- Base compensation for this position ranges from $120000 $130000 a year based on experience
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
