Merchandising Planning Manager

4 weeks ago

Bentonville, Arkansas, United States Walmart Full time
Job Summary

As a Merchandising Planning Manager at Walmart, you will be responsible for assessing business financial performance, forecasting, and influencing category modular and feature strategy and financial plans. You will be the expert for your category and leverage the scale of Walmart to truly impact the business and the lives of millions of customers worldwide.

Key Responsibilities
  • 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 timeframes.
Requirements
  • 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

The above information has been designed to indicate the general nature and level of work performed in the role. It is not designed to contain or be interpreted as a comprehensive inventory of all duties, responsibilities and qualifications required of employees assigned to this job. The full Job Description can be made available as part of the hiring process.

Benefits & Perks: 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.

Equal Opportunity Employer Walmart, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer – By Choice. We believe we are best equipped to help our associates, customers and the communities we serve live better when we really know them. That means understanding, respecting and valuing diversity - unique styles, experiences, identities, ideas and opinions – while being inclusive of all people.

Who We Are Join Walmart and your work could help over 275 million global customers live better. Yes, we are the Fortune #1 company. But you'll quickly find we're a company who wants you to feel comfortable bringing your whole self to work. A career at Walmart is where the world's most complex challenges meet a kinder way of life. Our mission spreads far beyond the walls of our stores. From day one, you'll be empowered and equipped to do the best work of your life. careers.walmart.com

At Walmart, we offer competitive pay as well as performance-based bonus awards and other great benefits for a happier mind, body, and wallet. Health benefits include medical, vision and dental coverage. Financial benefits include 401(k), stock purchase and company-paid life insurance. Paid time off benefits include PTO (including sick leave), parental leave, family care leave, bereavement, jury duty, and voting. Other benefits include short-term and long-term disability, company discounts, Military Leave Pay, adoption and surrogacy expense reimbursement, and more.

You will also receive PTO and/or PPTO that can be used for vacation, sick leave, holidays, or other purposes. The amount you receive depends on your job classification and length of employment. It will meet or exceed the requirements of paid sick leave laws, where applicable.

For information about PTO, see https://one.walmart.com/notices.

Live Better U is a Walmart-paid education benefit program for full-time and part-time associates in Walmart and Sam's Club facilities. Programs range from high school completion to bachelor's degrees, including English Language Learning and short-form certificates. Tuition, books, and fees are completely paid for by Walmart.

Eligibility requirements apply to some benefits and may depend on your job classification and length of employment. Benefits are subject to change and may be subject to a specific plan or program terms.

For information about benefits and eligibility, see One.Walmart.

The annual salary range for this position is $70,000.00-$130,000.00

Additional compensation includes annual or quarterly performance bonuses.

Additional compensation for certain positions may also include:

- Stock

Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

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.Preferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

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