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Company Introduction

The La Jolla Group is a worldwide leader in the action sports apparel business segment with a fast paced, high energy environment that is continually on the move. With prominent brands such as O’Neill, Spiritual Gangster, PSD Underwear and Hang Ten, La Jolla Group has proved to be a builder of great brands, a creator of innovative products, and a master of operational excellence.

Here at La Jolla Group, we offer flexibility with the opportunity to work from home. Our hybrid schedule allows us to connect with each other virtually and in office. We offer awesome discounts on our clothing brands, early release Fridays (2:00pm), occasional employer provided lunches, year-round fun events as well as a full benefits package! We believe our employees are our strongest asset and invest in their growth by focusing on developing their strengths.

General Summary

La Jolla Group is seeking a Planner to join the Planning & Analytics team. The Planner will play a key role in ensuring effective execution of the PSD brand. As Planner, you will create and maintain analytically driven demand, supply, and inventory plans; then work with key functional partners to reach consensus on those plans and ensure cohesive execution of the business.

If you are highly analytical, collaborative, and looking for a role where you can have a day-to-day direct impact on the business, we’d love to hear from you!

Essential Job Functions

• Complete ad hoc analytical requests and provide meaningful business insights to support various business objectives.
• Analyze supply volume, mix, and flow relative to demand plans to identify inventory optimization strategies. Work with stakeholders to establish plans that maximize margin on available inventory through sales channel allocations and markdown timing.
• Maintain long-term sales forecast by channel. Socialize forecast with Finance, Merchandising, Sales, and other cross functional stakeholders to drive long-term strategic planning efforts across the business.
• Analyze historical data, sales forecasts, sell-in/through, and other market insights to translate annual financial objectives into seasonal demand plans. Collaborate with brand leadership, wholesale and direct-to-consumer sales channels, merchandising, and other stakeholders to obtain consensus on demand plans.
• Identify seasonal inventory buy needs in consideration of supply chain calendar milestones and demand plans. Obtain brand leadership, merchandising, and sales stakeholder alignment on buy needs and work with Production to ensure buys are executed.
• Maintain ecommerce open-to-buy to guide volume, flow, and mix of ecommerce buys.
• Utilize seasonal sales data and historical product lines to build future season line plan recommendations by category for merchandising and design team.
• Maintain monthly inbound and outbound inventory forecasts for warehouse to support weekly shipment and return volume by channel.

Required Knowledge, Skills, And Abilities

• Ability to build and maintain strong cross functional partnerships.
• Experience planning and forecasting a seasonal business.
• Strong knowledge of forecasting and planning tools and techniques.
• Strong Excel and data management skills.
• Ability to analyze complex data sets and identify key insights.
• Apparel industry experience a plus.

Required Education And Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain or equivalent
• 3-5 Years of forecasting and analytics experience

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Physical Requirements

Seeing: Must be able to see well enough to read reports.

Hearing: Must be able to hear well enough to communicate with customers, vendors and employees.

Climbing/Stooping/Kneeling: Must be able to stoop or kneel to pick up products.

Lifting/Pulling/Pushing: Must be able to lift up to 10 pounds.

Fingering/Grasping/Feeling: Must be able to type and use technical sources.

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LJG is an Equal Opportunity Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, gender, national origin, religion, age, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity, protected veteran or military status, marital status, pregnancy (including unlawful discrimination on the basis of a legally protected pregnancy or maternity leave), genetic information and any other characteristics protected by law.

Note: The statements herein are intended to describe the general nature and level of work being performed, but are not to be seen as a complete list of responsibilities, duties, and skills required of personnel so classified. Also, they do not establish a contract for employment and are subject to change at the discretion of the employer.