Merchandising Planning Manager

4 weeks ago


Bentonville, Arkansas, United States Walmart Full time
Job Summary

We are seeking a highly skilled Merchandising Planning Manager to join our team at Walmart. As a key member of our merchandising team, you will be responsible for assessing business financial performance, forecasting, and influencing category modular and feature strategy and financial plans.

Key Responsibilities
  • Perform all financial forecasting within categories using data-driven analytics, trend insights, and business intelligence to project future results.
  • Partner with cross-functional teams on inputs to forecast and share output with the team to drive alignment.
  • Understand the implications of trends on each metric and guide teammates on actions to improve results.
  • Influence feature and promotional plans using historical performance data and business insight.
  • Support decisions on feature buy quantities and store-level allocation.
  • Use appropriate tools to determine the impact of price on unit velocity and communicate financial requirements.
  • Communicate performance and influence any required change in strategy.
  • Assess item-level performance during line review processes.
  • Analyze and challenge assumptions regarding performance expectations.
  • Communicate the aggregate financial impact of planned assortment changes.
  • Create executive summaries on expected financial results and present to leadership teams.
  • Conduct post-modular analysis to drive accountability to decisions and forecasts.
  • Assess the health of the business and seek the root cause of opportunities.
  • Generate data-driven recommendations to improve customer and financial outcomes.
  • Socialize findings and ideas to cross-functional teams to steer decisions that impact the P&L.
  • Develop and make recommendations on category and subcategory financial targets.
  • Notate and convey business intelligence pertaining to future category performance.
  • Build budget information into the financial system for fiscal category budgets.
  • Own monthly financial perspectives for categories, highlighting business drivers, opportunities, key action plans, and timelines.
  • Provide seasonal and event analysis and reporting for key timeframes.
Requirements
  • Bachelor's degree in Marketing or a related field and 2 years' experience in retail, merchandising, forecasting, or a related area.
  • OR 4 years' experience in retail, merchandising, forecasting, or a related area.
Preferred Qualifications
  • Negotiating terms and costing, Retail Link, Supervisory Masters: Marketing.
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