Demand Planner - Assorting

Pay Range: $(47.88 – 49.00)/hr on W2 all-inclusive without benefits

• They will help communicate Point of Sales (POS) and Key Performance Indicator (KPI) data to internal and external stakeholders.
• They will help sales and retail partners understand what is working, what can be improved, and what healthy POS’s look like.

• 5+ YOE of retail acumen in assortment planning
• Able to take complicated topics and make them easily understood to a variety of backgrounds
• Pulling POS and KPI data and analyze key takeaways to craft headlines of what’s working in the market place

• Stock and sales planning for footwear, apparel, or retail
• Experience with o9 (pronounced Oh-nine) planning tool, Excel expert
• External engagement with vertical retail - with customer of sporting goods, Cross functional with internal and external partners in similar industry environments.

• Our WHQ-based Planning team is looking for a Lead Assortment Planner focused on optimizing the business with our Marketplace Partners. In this role, you will play a pivotal role in bringing the marketplace vision to life with specific focus on pre-season forecasting, reacting to in-season trends and results analysis.
• You will establish clear financial plans while partnering with cross functional teammates to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer demand.
• Strong collaboration is a key, working both internally and externally with Partner Accounts. As a Lead Planner, you’ll bring curiosity, a self-starter mentality, influential communication skills, and a strong ability to operate in ambiguous situations.
• You’ll have phenomenal data storytelling abilities grounded in retail acumen, planning expertise and supported through elevated excel capabilities.

• On any given day you might be developing style-level plans to inform financial plans that will fuel assortments and influence buy and supply decisions while partnering with key stakeholders.
• You’ll also continuously monitor performance indicators keeping a pulse on the business: analyzing sales results, managing key product forecasts, in season recommendations and sharing actionable insights on risks and opportunities.
• You will create plans that optimize business health while achieving financial targets.
• You’ll use strong communication skills with internal/external partners to elicit information, cultivate productive dialogue, verbalize ideas, and align financial plans with an overarching strategy.
• You’ll enable success by collaborating with multiple cross functional internal teammates and external planning counterparts.

• You’ll be the planning point person for the product line in the WHQ office and collaborate regularly with a variety of groups and individuals, including (but not limited to): sales, merchandising, planning, marketplace teams, brand, as well as various external contributors and leaders.
• You’ll participate in a team structure that facilitates individual and team performance, supporting and encouraging an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity, encourages accountability, and drives toward results.

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Merchandising, Economics, Marketing, or related field
• 4+ years experience in Planning/Buying/Sales with emphasis on retail/wholesale financial planning and analysis
• Proven ability to leverage large amounts of data, identify critical information, analyze, and potentially create new ways of working to develop a recommendation.
• Strong ability to influence through compelling communication.
• Able to think critically and understand the potential of a product in the marketplace while identifying gaps to tops-down and bottoms-up financial plan.