Merch Planner - Essentials and Beauty
Merch Planner - Essentials and Beauty
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$ 71000 - 128000
1 Vacancy
Job Description
Pay is based on several factors which vary based on include labor markets and in some instancesmay include education work experience and certifications. In addition to your pay Target cares about and invests in you as a team member so that you can take care of yourself and your family. Target offers eligible team members and their dependents comprehensive health benefits and programs which may include medical vision dental life insurance and more to help you and your family take care of your whole benefits for eligible team members include 401(k) employee discount short term disability long term disability paid sick leave paid national holidays and paid competitive benefits from financial and education to wellbeing and beyond at us:
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A role in Planning means being in charge of the financials and forecasting for one of Targets businesses. Here youll conduct comparative analysis of holiday or other seasonal performance reports and provide the insights that inform the Inventory teams work to ensure that product supports projected sales. Acting as the hub between Merchandising and Supply Chain you will create a financial link between these two essential groups and have a voice in some of the most important decisions from a financial strategy standpoint.
As a Merchandise Planner youll provide inseason decision support collaborate on assortment planning recommend localization and channel strategies including cluster types and profiles and lead demand forecasting. Youll support the divisional strategy through your category expertise and partnerships with crossfunctional teams and vendors. You will head up the opentobuy process and decide on categorylevel investment and the financial validity of assortments. You will conduct root cause analysis for variation between supply and demand forecasts to support chasecancel decisions and communicate implications to vendors. Youll conduct scenario planning build unit plans and lead initial set planning and operationalization to optimize assortments. A large part of your role will be to interpret forecast results and conduct what if analysis to guide your goforward recommendations. You will validate the unit promo planning forecast drive maintenance risk analysis and decisionmaking by the Pricing & Promotion Center of Excellence. And youll run event forecast creation and flow analyzing item lifecycles and driving recommendations on endofseason management.
Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
About you:
Fouryear degree or equivalent experience
26 years of relevant experience
1 years of Merchandising experience
Strong strategic financial and analytical skills; can easily translate data from an array of sources into insights and recommendations
Strong collaboration skills to partner with crossfunctional teams
Flexible resilient and comfortable working in grey areas that are constantly changing
This position will operate as a Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement based on Targets needs. A Hybrid/Flex for Your Day work arrangement means the team members core role will need to be performed both onsite at the Target HQ MN location the role is assigned to and virtually depending upon what your role team and tasks require for that day. Work duties cannot be performed outside of the country of the primary work location unless otherwise prescribed by Target. Click here if you are curious to learn more about Minnesota.
Benefits Eligibility
Please paste this url into your preferred browser to learn about benefits eligibility for this role: with Disabilities Act (ADA)In compliance with state and federal laws Target will make reasonable accommodations for applicants with disabilities. If a reasonable accommodation is needed to participate in the job application or interview process please reach out to Application deadline is : 05/04/2025Employment Type
Full-Time
