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Senior Demand Planner Opportunity in Los Angeles / Culver City

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Salary $90,000 - $110,000 per year

A Bit About Us

We are a solution orientated brand that is creating the next generation of underwear, loungewear, and shapewear.

Why join us?

• Supplemental Life Insurance
• Mental Health Care
• Health Savings Account
• Health, Dental, Vision Insurance
• Accidental Death & Dismemberment
• Occupational Accident Insurance
• Flexible Spending Account
• Disability Insurance
• Life Insurance

Job Details

Job Overview

The Senior Demand Planner will develop strategic merchandise plans and targets for key portions of our ecommerce business to maximize sales, optimize inventory, and increase margin through the analysis of historical sales trends, current in-season patterns, and future forecasts.

You will need to have experience with inventory planning processes (including replenishment processes and ladders, category planning, and open-to-buy) for an apparel business or similar. Have the ability to be flexible, multi-task, comfortable with high sku counts, and able to prioritize under tight deadlines.

Location

Los Angeles, CA

Hybrid

Responsibilities

• Prioritize purchase orders and model out production capacity constraints and transportation methods on a weekly basis based on feedback and updates from the supply chain.
• Contribute to the development of annual, seasonal, monthly, and daily sales plans for assigned product categories along with direction from leadership.
• Collaborate with wholesale planning partners to maximize inventory turns and revenue by reviewing inventory weekly and making critical decisions to optimize inventory between channels.
• Manage inventory ladders and projections on a weekly basis for core styles at the sku level and submit buys to production on a monthly cadence to ensure never-out-of-stock in key portions of the business.
• Perform size-level analysis and recommend size curves for each category in the business used in the execution of buy and deployment processes.
• Create, update, and publish digestible recaps on the designated product categories on a weekly and monthly basis for the planning team and cross-functional partners, including any ad hoc requests that may arise.
• Analyze sales, inventory, and ecommerce data on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis and prepare thoughtful recommendations that can be discussed and implemented cross-departmentally to immediately impact the business.
• Aid in establishing best practices within the department for a growing start-up, ensuring consistency in tools, reporting, and communications.
• Partner with Merchandising to align on skus to be planned on replenishment or be taken off replenishment.
• Contribute to monthly sales and receipt plans in partnership with the Director of Planning to support company revenue and margin objectives, and reforecast monthly to ensure we are tracking to targets, identifying any opportunity, and mitigating any risk.

Qualifications

• Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel required, including v-lookups, pivot tables, logic formulas, and basic macros.
• Strong organizational and time management skills; able to effectively manage multiple priorities
• Familiarity or experience with ladder or replenishment planning.
• A deep understanding of how to use data to drive decisions.
• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience.
• 5+ years of analytical experience in merchandise planning or inventory management.
• Comfort with ambiguity and passion/excitement for building new tools and processes
• Meets deadlines, prioritizes appropriately, copes well with change, and maintains composure under pressure.
• Previous experience with Business Intelligence and reporting tools such as Looker, Netsuite, Google Analytics, Shopify, etc.
• Proven examples of “thinking outside the box” to improve processes.

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