Merch Planner DecHomeFurniture (Minneapolis)

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About us:

Working at Target means helping all families discover the joy of everyday life. We bring that vision to life through our values and culture. Learn more about Target here.

About this opportunity:

The Merchandise Planner Furniture role offers the opportunity to help drive a large business within Decorative Home supporting a category that plays an important role in bringing style quality and value to our guests. With a highly digitally penetrated business and distinct assortment strategies across Targets owned and marketplace channels Furniture provides a unique opportunity to build planning expertise across an increasingly dynamic omnichannel landscape.

In this role youll partner closely with Merchandising Inventory Management and cross-functional teams to translate business trends and guest demand into financial and inventory strategies. The size price points and fulfillment considerations inherent in Furniture create unique planning opportunities requiring a thoughtful balance of sales growth inventory productivity availability and operational considerations.

Youll also have the opportunity to influence how we optimize our assortment and investments across channels using data and insights to identify opportunities and navigate tradeoffs. This is an ideal role for a planner who is energized by a complex digitally led business and enjoys connecting financial strategy assortment decisions and operational execution to deliver strong business and guest outcomes.

A role in Planning means leading the financial strategy forecasting and inventory investment for one of Targets businesses. Youll partner across Merchandising and Supply Chain to translate data into actionable insights ensuring the right product is available to support guest demand while influencing key business decisions through financial analysis and strategic recommendations.

As a Merchandise Planner youll lead in-season decision support assortment planning and demand forecasting while partnering with cross-functional teams and vendors to execute the divisional strategy. Youll manage the open-to-buy process evaluate category investments and conduct scenario planning to optimize assortments and inventory. Through analysis of forecast performance and supply and demand trends youll identify risks and opportunities inform chase-cancel decisions and provide recommendations that improve financial outcomes. Youll also lead initial set planning validate promotional forecasts support Pricing & Promotion Center of Excellence decisions and oversee event forecasting and end-of-season inventory strategies.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.

About you:

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 26 years of relevant experience
• 3 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 cross-functional teams
• Flexible resilient and comfortable working in grey areas that are constantly changing
• Ability to connect financial insights with assortment inventory and operational considerations to drive business outcomes
• Curiosity and comfort navigating a highly digital evolving business with multiple channels and fulfillment considerations

This position will require in-office presence in Minneapolis Minnesota Monday Tuesday Wednesday and Thursday each week and can work from home on Fridays. 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.

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