Planner, Retail, Merchandising

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POSITION RESPONSIBILITIES:

POSITION TITLE:
Planner

REPORTS TO: VP of Planning & Sales

Provide actionable sales and inventory insights through advanced reporting and analysis to support executive leadership and cross-functional teams. Strategically manage wholesale finished goods inventory to drive sales performance, optimize margins, and mitigate financial risk.

WHOLESALE: FASHION/CORE

• Conduct in-depth performance analysis by style across Wholesale and Retail channels, identifying trends and opportunities to optimize assortments and sales performance.
• Oversee in-depth performance analysis by style across Wholesale and Retail channels, identifying trends and opportunities to optimize assortments and sales performance.
• Partner closely with Sales to evaluate fast- and slow-selling styles, driving strategies to chase demand or mitigate inventory risk.
• Communicate and partner with Production on chases/reductions as needed to ensure inventory is received within optimal delivery. Communicating all requests in a clear, concise format.
• Monitor inventory levels across all styles and sizes, maintaining minimum stock level strategies for core styles to ensure optimal assortment and balanced stock by style and size.
• Oversee the Wholesale Drop Ship program in partnership with the Associate Planner, ensuring optimal size-level inventory and providing monthly performance reporting.

OVERARCHING REPORTING

• Present global booking/ATS recaps for each live season in a standardized format on a weekly basis - including by style sell thru as well as category penetration by color type/silhouette.
• Develop, produce, and distribute weekly, monthly, and seasonal reporting for the Executive Team, highlighting key vendor account performance and business drivers.
• Create overarching analysis for weekly sell through performance by style across our key vendors. Present information for end of season analysis and hindsight meetings with Sales team. Merchandising to also utilize for building future seasonal roadmaps.
• Lead direct-ship execution for import and domestic shipments from multiple factories, ensuring seamless order maintenance through customer service, production coordination, and precise style/size recaps.
• Provide ad hoc and ongoing analysis to Production, Operations, Finance, and Sales teams to support finished goods inventory management and decision-making.

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Merchandising, or related field
• 4+ years’ experience in Planning, Allocation, and/or Buying in Wholesale and/or Retail environments
• Strong analytical skills with advanced retail math proficiency
• Advanced Excel skills and experience working with ERP systems
• Excellent communication skills and high attention to detail
• Strong ability to prioritize and execute responsibilities/tasks in a fast-paced environment

About the Company

At PAIGE, we believe that every choice we've ever made-the big ones, the small ones, the right or the wrong-has led us to this moment. We believe that the best story you can make and share is the one of your own life, and we are passionate about designing pieces that reflect and celebrate it.

From the beginning, our founder & creative director Paige Adams-Geller embraced every moment, aiming to inspire and empower as her story evolved. Her journey began in Los Angeles, where her entrepreneurial spirit took her from working as one of the top fit models in the industry to launching her namesake collection in 2004. Today, she sits at the helm of PAIGE as the only female founder in the denim industry, continuing to challenge convention and infuse her colorful spirit and chic sensibility to every collection she designs.

Our brand first launched in February 2005 in high-end retailers including Intermix, Ron Herman, Bergdorf Goodman and Harvey Nichols. Paige's designs became an instant obsession of consumers, celebrities, and prominent fashion editors. Quickly, we unveiled our men's, petites and maternity ranges - all created with the same commitment to the craft.

As our story continues to evolve, we remain devoted to the details. We only partner with the best wash-houses in the country, which happen to be in our hometown of Los Angeles. Every style we create is wear-tested, and tested again. We are completely obsessed with designing pieces you'll live in-jeans that go from morning to moonlight; the perfect pair that works like a charm, always;

pieces to help you stand tall in what you're wearing, and take you exactly where you want to go.