Senior Business Planner

Senior Business Planner NS IT Solutions
• Beaverton, Oregon, USA

Location: Onsite - Beaverton OR
Type: Contractor (Onsite)
Schedule: Monday-Friday 9am-5pm (WFH Fridays)
Duration: 5 months (approx. 27 weeks)
Start Date: December 7 2025

This role provides leave coverage for a Senior Business Planner within a major global retail brand's North America digital commerce organization. The Merchandise Planner 3 will manage a portion of the Mens Footwear business and work cross-functionally with planning, buying, finance, and consumer teams. This role involves high visibility supporting one of the largest and most strategically important product segments.

The ideal candidate has strong retail planning expertise, excels in data-driven storytelling, is comfortable with high-stakes decision-making, and thrives in a fast-paced collaborative environment.

You will drive in-season business performance partnering closely with Merchandise Planning and Digital Commerce teams to influence weekly and monthly targets. Your work supports the successful execution of a unified One Plan across channels.

Key responsibilities include:

• Drive category productivity analysis and seasonal target setting by partnering with Buyers and Consumer teams.
• Utilize KPI data trends and scenario planning to influence Open-to-Buy recommendations and improve business forecasting.
• Develop product lifecycle guardrails to optimize margins including pricing markdowns and inventory management recommendations (cancel/closeout/chase).
• Lead weekly business offense activities: reporting analysis and in-season action recommendations.
• Collaborate with cross-functional partners to align marketplace strategies and improve optimization across channels.
• Build and enhance an Omni-channel offense strategy in partnership with digital and store teams.

This role collaborates extensively across teams including:

• Buying
• Merchandise Financial Planning
• Merchandise Planning
• Finance
• Digital Consumer and Digital Commerce teams

You will join a team of approximately seven planners within a broader digital planning organization of 30-35 professionals.

A highly analytical and influential merchandise planning professional who can manage complexity, ambiguity, and high visibility work streams within a major consumer retail environment.

• 5 years of merchandise planning, business planning, assortment planning or related experience
• Bachelor's degree (business-related degree preferred)
• Advanced Excel skills; ability to work with large datasets
• Experience using web-based planning tools (O9 or similar)
• Strong written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to present to senior stakeholders
• Proven capability to tell compelling stories through data
• Deep expertise in retail planning and inventory management

• Strong time management and organization
• High attention to detail
• Comfort working in high-visibility fast-paced environments

• Background in large consumer or product-driven retail brands
• Experience in fashion apparel or footwear
• Demonstrated success leading complex or ambiguous projects
• Familiarity with sneaker culture or consumer behavior in this space

• Hours per week: 40
• Work Type: Onsite
• Location: Beaverton OR
• Time Zone: PST