Retail Planner

RETAIL PLANNER

Natick, MA

This is a hybrid role, consisting of in-office work and WFH.

The Retail Planner is highly motivated, proactive and thrives in a fast-paced environment. This person has a high level of proficiency in Excel and will be responsible for driving the NIC+ZOE retail business through sales and inventory management. This role has opportunity to make an enormous impact on NIC+ZOE growth as well as gain visibility and exposure to top management. Core responsibilities include but are not limited to:

Retail/ Ecommerce OMNI Planning

• Partner with the Retail management team to forecast sales and inventory by month, brand/division, and store level.
• Analyze current sales trends and on-order to adjust forecast accordingly
• Plan and project receipt flow(s) and manage model stock levels necessary to support sales forecasts
• Develop knowledge of geographic and store-attribute performance and trends to employ strategies
• Identify and explain opportunities within brands, size divisions, and assortments, down to the door level
• Provide direction to Retail store partners to ensure adequate flow and depth of assortment.
• Execute weekly/monthly/quarterly reporting and performance analysis for Retail and Ecommerce.
• Analyze historical data and current trends to recap business weekly while identifying risks and opportunities.
• Create allocation strategies, incorporating the merchandise plan and flow strategy to meet store inventory needs.
• Create daily sales goals by location for store team each month.

Merchandise Planning:

• Translate top-down financial goals and strategies into merchandise, and category plans.
• Partner with Merchants to develop merchandise sales and assortment plans based on brand, size division, fashion season, product category based on quarterly hindsight; provide buy guidelines that tie to assortment and receipt plans.
• Support key business review and hindsight meetings to identify risks and opportunities in the business and recommend strategies to ensure business objectives are achieved.
• Participate in line building process with Merchandising, sharing key business hindsights.

Other key responsibilities

• Support the design and implementation of key planning processes and tools.
•  Develop strong/collaborative relationships with cross functional teams, including merchandising, operations, warehouse team, and store team.
• Special projects as assigned

Skills + Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in business, Finance, or another quantitative field preferred
• 5+ years in a wholesale, retail or merchandise planning role
• Strong analytical skills
• Expert Excel and retail math skills
• Ability to juggle priorities in a fast-paced environment.
• Knowledge of Oracle platforms a plus
• Must be able to work independently in a fast-paced environment, make decisions, recommendations, inferences based on analytics.
• Good presentation skills a must