Merchandise Planner, Strategic Channels

What You'll Do:

Merchandise Planning & Inventory Management - Collaborations

• Own the development of division-, department-, class-, and style-level plans for the Collaborations business that support brand strategy, product-launch calendars, and financial objectives.
• Partner with Merchandising to develop top-down department and class sales, margin, and inventory plans that align with division objectives and Collaboration-specific strategies.
• Develop and maintain bottom-up, style-level sales, inventory, receipt, and demand plans for Collaborations launches and ongoing programs.
• Own bottoms-up financial reconciliation from style-level plans to department-level targets, identifying risks, opportunities, and required actions.
• Own open-to-buy management, sales forecasting, and inventory forecasting for the Collaborations business. Assess total business risks and develop resolutions in partnership with the Director of Planning and cross-functional teams to achieve or exceed financial targets.
• Drive strategies that positively impact assortment productivity, sales, gross margin, inventory turn, and product availability.
• Maintain appropriate in-stock levels and optimize inventory across assigned Collaboration categories, channels, and product launches.
• Lead weekly, monthly, quarterly, and seasonal business recaps to inform near-term actions and longer-term financial, inventory, assortment, and product-flow strategies.
• Provide regular pre-season, in-season, and post-season analysis of business trends. Communicate actionable recommendations that support inventory productivity, maximize sales and margin, and mitigate risk.
• Drive business discussions with Merchandising and cross-functional partners; adjust forecasts, inventory investments, and strategies as needed to optimize results.
• Recommend and execute in-season pricing, markdown, reorder, cancellation, and inventory-transfer strategies in alignment with financial targets and broader promotional direction.
• Partner with Sourcing to provide long-range forecasts and seasonal item-level forecasts aligned with production calendars, ensuring product is ordered and produced to support Collaboration launch timing and demand.

Strategic Channels Support – Amazon & Other Growth Channels

• Support the execution of strategic-channel initiatives, including Amazon, in partnership with the Senior Manager, Pricing & Strategic Channels and cross-functional stakeholders.
• Assist with channel-level sales forecasts, inventory plans, product availability, product-launch readiness, and replenishment recommendations.
• Support Amazon and strategic-channel assortment, inventory, pricing, and promotional execution, ensuring decisions align with the overall Collaboration and company financial plans.
• Monitor channel performance—including sales, inventory, in-stock levels, pricing, promotional performance, and profitability—and provide analysis, reporting, and recommended actions.
• Help identify inventory opportunities for strategic channels while balancing customer demand, brand priorities, operational constraints, and total-company inventory objectives.
• Coordinate with E-commerce, Merchandising, Marketing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, DC Operations, and external channel partners to support accurate execution of product, inventory, and promotional plans.
• Assist in building scalable planning reports, processes, and performance-management routines for Amazon and future strategic channels.

You Should Have:

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain or equivalent experience in related discipline
• 2+ years prior planning experience; direct to consumer preferred
• Experience with Amazon and/or Wholesale preferred
• Excellent analytical, mathematical and problem-solving skills and proficiency with retail math
• Proven track record in driving results via merchandise forecasting, planning and data analytics
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated record of prioritizing, influencing and decision making at multiple levels in the organization 
• Ability to use sales financial data to make decisions and maximize profitability
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with proven ability to build strong partnerships and influence others.
• Excellent analytical application skills (Excel, etc.) and desire to master new systems; productivity application skills (PowerPoint, Word)
• Ability to handle multiple tasks/projects with tight deadlines