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About the Role

Dana-co, a leading design company of luxury lingerie, seeks a Retail Planning Analyst to join its Strategic Planning team. This role supports management, sales, merchandising, design, finance, production, and forecasting by maintaining data, analyzing retail performance, and developing insights into business trends and opportunities.

Responsibilities

• Track retail sales and stock
• Maintain POS style selling database
• Publish weekly selling reports
• Perform seasonal market share analysis
• Create management reports
• Facilitate best seller meetings
• Publish monthly reports of new product launches
• Maintain detailed log of allowances
• Maintain projected markdown liabilities by account
• Provide detailed accrual at month end
• Track and report on Allowances, Givebacks and Gratis
• Maintain budget and shipping forecast process, including gross shipment and dilution budgets, channel, basic to fashion ratios by account/brand, and flow by month
• Assist with researching and creating annual revenue and giveback budget spreadsheets
• Publish annual budgets to sales team and research exceptions
• Review and analyze financial reports from accounts by brand (OTB)
• Recommend actions and/or suggest alternatives by creating ‘what if’ scenarios
• Present findings to management
• Communicate between departments as needed
• Provide ad-hoc reporting support to management
• Provide ad-hoc reporting support to Sales
• Partner with Forecasting to provide retail sales data as a check and balance against the forecast

Requirements

• 5 years of professional experience as a planner, analyst, or buyer in the department store industry
• Bachelor’s degree
• Advanced understanding of Excel, pivot tables, V-lookup, Macros & Microsoft Office
• Highly analytical, data-driven individual
• Highly organized and detail-oriented
• Excellent Math skills
• Accuracy
• Hands-on experience with inventory management and planning
• Excellent teaming and collaboration skills
• Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks/projects
• Background in lingerie/intimates is a plus

Skills

• Retail metrics
• Data trend analysis
• Innovative analysis
• Excel
• Pivot tables
• V-lookup
• Macros
• Microsoft Office
• Inventory management
• Planning

Location

• In-office
• Remote

Work Type

• Full-time
• Hybrid

Experience Level

• 5 years of professional experience

Education Level

• Bachelor's degree

Benefits

• Health, vision, and dental insurance
• Flexible spending accounts
• Paid Vacation, Sick, Personal time
• Paid Holidays
• 401(k) with a company match
• Parental leave (non-birthing parents included)
• Short-term disability
• Employee Assistance Program (EAP)
• Bereavement Support
• Education Reimbursement
• Term life insurance
• AD&D
• Critical illness insurance
• Hospital indemnity insurance
• Accident insurance
• Group legal services
• Employee discounts

About the Company

• Dana-co is a leading design company of luxury lingerie.

Equal Opportunity

• Dana-co is an inclusive equal opportunity employer committed to recruiting and retaining a diverse workforce.
• We provide a work environment that is free from discrimination and harassment based upon any legally protected characteristic, including, but not limited to, an individual’s sex, race, color, ethnicity, national origin, age, religion, disability, sexual orientation, veteran status, gender identity, or pregnancy.