Manager, Merchandising Planning - Writing

Position Summary...

• Category/Item Forecasting:
  Performs all financial forecasting within categories using data-driven analytics, trend insights, and business intelligence to project future results. Partners with cross-functional team on inputs to forecast and shares output with team to drive alignment. Understands implications of trend to each metric, and is able to guide teammates on actions to improve results.
• Feature and Promotion Management:
  Influences feature and promotional plans using historical performance data and business insight. Supports decision on feature buy quantities and store level allocation. Uses appropriate tools to determine impact of price to unit velocity and communicates financial requirements. Communicates performance and influences any required change in strategy.
• Modular Strategy and Financials:
  Assesses item-level performance during line review process. Analyzes and challenges assumptions regarding performance expectations. Communicates the aggregate financial impact of planned assortment changes. Creates executive summary on expected financial results and present to leadership team. Conducts post-modular analysis to drive accountability to decisions and forecasts.
• Business Management Decision Support:
  Assess health of the business and seek root-cause of opportunities. Generate data-driven recommendations to improve customer and financial outcomes. Socialize findings and ideas to cross-functional team in order to steer decisions that impact the P&L.
• Budgeting:
  Develops and makes recommendations on category and subcategory financial targets. Notate and convey business intelligence pertaining to future category performance. Builds budget information into the financial system for fiscal category budgets.
• Financial Updates and Reporting:
  Own monthly financial perspective for categories, highlighting business drivers, opportunities, key action plans, and timelines. Provides seasonal and event analysis and reporting for key time frames.

• Omni Channel Customer Focus:
  Consistently makes customer-centric recommendations and business decisions across scope of responsibility. Understands customer behavior across channels, or within relevant channels (for example, demand trends, buying behaviors, consumption patterns around SKUs). Anticipates customer trends and influences demand through deep understanding of customer needs and depth of category vision.
• Data and Digital Acumen:
  Leverages data analysis tools to explore multi-faceted financial data. Develops and tests hypotheses. Builds and presents insights using visualization tools to influence decisions and steer financial performance.
• Strategic Perspective:
  Leverages insights sourced from data, business intelligence and customer trends to influence strategic direction of category. Establish connection between qualitative strategy and quantitative impact. Share findings and perspective to relevant stakeholders to ensure informed decisions within scope of ownership.

Beyond competitive pay, you can receive incentive awards for your performance. Other great perks include 401(k) match, stock purchase plan, paid maternity and parental leave, PTO, multiple health plans, and much more.

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Bachelor’s degree in Marketing or related field and 2 years’ experience in retail, merchandising, forecasting, or related area. OR 4 years’ experience in retail, merchandising, forecasting, or related area.

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The annual salary range for this position is $70,000.00 - $. Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses. Stock.

Walmart and its subsidiaries are committed to maintaining a drug‑free workplace and have a no‑tolerance policy regarding the use of illegal drugs and alcohol on the job. This policy applies to all employees and aims to create a safe and productive work environment.