Assistant Planner

Assistant Planner

QVC Group

West Chester OH

Working at QVC Group means joining a live social shopping company with incredible teams ambitious projects and amazing careers. QVC Group Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands - QVC HSN and our four Cornerstone brands.

The Cornerstone brands deliver inspirations that help customers enjoy enhance and celebrate life. Cornerstone comprises four interactive aspirational home and apparel lifestyle brands: Ballard Designs Frontgate Grandin Road and Garnet Hill.

Your Opportunity Your Team

• The Assistant Planner supports Frontgate by forecasting product sales and trends at an item level while maintaining top line demand and margin goals for your category. Additionally you will translate that sales forecast into purchase orders that achieve turn and end of year inventory goals. Assistant planners are also responsible for developing skills to analyze their business and make recommendations that can minimize inventory risks and increase category performance.

• You will report to a Sr. Planner.

Where Youll Work

• This role is hybrid and will require you to be onsite at West Chester OH several days per month. Job seekers must reside in one of the following states to be considered: Ohio Indiana Kentucky Georgia North Carolina or Pennsylvania. Relocation assistance is not available for this role.

What Youll Do

• Support Planning team (as assigned) with tops down and bottoms up fiscal demand forecasting and inventory planning

• Aid with pre-season sales and margin planning by sub-category

• Create/maintain weekly sales and inventory reporting for the category

• Partner with Sr. Planner to analyze and aid in identifying potential markdowns and see them through approval and execution

• Help with SKU rationalization by analyzing sales/assortment performance and make recommendations for keeping or dropping

What Youll Bring

• Minimum Experience: Bachelors degree in a financial or merchandising related field.

• Minimum Experience: 1 year experience in planning allocation or merchandising related field. 1 years in a retail supply chain analytical level position relating to retail inventory management. Experience in direct to consumer.

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Our Total Rewards package includes benefits youll love such as competitive compensation paid time off an employee assistance program parental leave paid volunteer hours and amazing company discounts! In our US market you can also expect health care benefits starting on day 1 401(k) and tuition reimbursement benefits.

QVC Group is committed to inclusion and belonging for all and ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal state and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout please contact us at for assistance.

If provided salary ranges are a general guideline only and actual salaries will vary and are based on factors such as a candidates qualifications skills experience and geographic location as well as business and market conditions.