Merchandise Planner Jobs

Description

Summary

Are you looking for an exciting opportunity to level up your career? GameStop is hiring a Merchandise Planner to join our evolving organization. The Merchandise Planner will be a key asset in creating sales plans, managing inventory flow within a budget, and driving cross-functional partnership to execute against our goals. GameStop is undergoing a major change across all business units and the Merchandise Planning team is looking for a self-motivated player to take charge of their assigned business, formulate demand and inventory planning strategies, and build partnerships with key stakeholders. This role is expected to use critical thinking, strong communication, cross functional partnerships, curiosity, and a high level of urgency to identify and solve problems throughout the organization. The Merchandise Planner is expected to be a key strategic partner for the business, providing their expertise to help improve decision making at GameStop.

Essential Job Duties And Responsibilities

• Work collaboratively with others to achieve GameStop goals, simplify processes, reduce costs, and delight our customers.
• Own end-to-end planning and management of sales, margin, and inventory, from SKU forecast creation to sales and margin plan reporting and adjustments.
• Develop and maintain strategic inventory plans and manage forecasting/replenishment needs for all assigned category SKUs in alignment with the defined life cycle of the assortment.
• Demonstrate a high level of accountability and ownership over assigned categories.

Basic Qualifications

• Proficiency in Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Outlook, and PowerBI required.
• SAP and intermediate SQL experience preferred.
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills.
• Bachelor’s degree in business, engineering, finance, statistics, supply chain, operations, mathematics, or related field.
• Advanced Excel comfortability is critical to success.
• Ability to make decisions with incomplete information or within an ambiguous environment.
• This position will be onsite in the Grapevine, TX location 5 days a week.
• Strong analytical and critical thinking skills, working with raw data to identify insights and take decisive action.
• 1-3 years’ experience working with internal partners creating SKU level and Category level merchandise plans.
• Ability to work independently and as part of a team.
• 1-3 years’ experience in merchandise planning, retail planning, or demand planning.