Director, Merchandising & Planning Jobs

WHAT IS THE BRAND?

Mashburn is an Atlanta-based apparel and lifestyle brand launched in 2007 with a single passion: taking care of people. The company designs, manufactures, and markets a nationally recognized assortment of menswear (Sid Mashburn) and womenswear (Ann Mashburn) alongside other high-quality, iconic brands. We want to be the world's go-to omnichannel lifestyle shop - a place that embodies service and style, accessibility and luxury, and, for us, the very best of everything. Most excitingly, our story is still unfolding, and incredible growth opportunities lie ahead...

WHAT IS THE JOB?

As the Director of Merchandising & Planning, you will focus on excellence throughout the product life cycle - from planning, to buying, to managing inventory, to analyzing performance. This role reports to the SVP of Merchandising, Planning & Wholesale. This is a full-time exempt position.

WHAT ARE THE RESPONSIBILITIES?

• Plan and develop the inventory strategy by subclass to deliver sales and gross profit targets.
• Manage in-season business by tracking and analyzing all channels to identify opportunities and optimize in-season inventory stock levels across locations.
• Provide seasonal program and fabric projections to better inform production and supply chain.
• Manage basic stock replenishment with weekly focus on stock, projections, and fabric inventory.
• Support Pop-Up, On-the-Road, and new store openings by ordering and managing product inventory.
• Generate and manage the Open-to-Buy; present to finance team quarterly.
• Responsible for product allocations, distribution, and replenishment to all channels.
• Own all of ANT inputs including annual plans, forecasting to the weekly level, monthly receipt reconciliation, and reforecasting based on tops-down plan changes.
• Collaborate with Merch/Design to build seasonal line plans by category to drive financial goals while supporting the brand vision.
• Prepare and conduct seasonal hindsight review with the product team; deliver all requested product selling data to support design meetings as well as vendor development.
• Provide cross-functional communication (retail stores, web, wholesale, distribution center) related to inventory strategy.
• Manage a small team to aid in their career development while ensuring all key deliverables are achieved.
• Developing and driving seasonal sale strategy and potential liquidation events.

WHAT ARE THE ESSENTIAL SKILLS?

• 5+ years of experience in a retail planning role.
• Senior Manager level or higher with forecast and retail planning experience.
• Reflect our core values of hopeful, helpful, hardworking, nimble, hospitable & humble.
• Hands-on position requiring agility.