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About the Role

The Merchandise Planner is responsible for executing strategic initiatives within their division, ensuring accuracy and consistency in plans, revisions, and projects. This role involves analyzing sales trends, gross margin, inventory, and OTB levels, and partnering with cross-functional teams to identify business opportunities and risks.

Responsibilities

• Develop seasonal business plans through partnership with Buying group and analysis of historical data to forecast trends.
• Develop Pre-Season chain plans at the class level and In-Season forecasting of chain plans.
• Monitor monthly performance to sales, inventory, and margin targets.
• Manage weekly OTB, identifying opportunities as needed.
• Identify Early Warning Callouts and recommend courses of action to drive profitable sales and margin.
• Perform independent analysis as needed to identify opportunities.
• Collaborate closely and build trust among cross-functional partners to drive desired results.
• Present and call out risks/opportunities to Planning Management and Senior Merchants.

Requirements

• Strong communication skills, including active listening, asking clarifying questions, sharing points of view, and building relationships.
• Flexibility, adaptability, and receptiveness to feedback.
• Results-driven, tenacious, and achievement-focused with the ability to prioritize work and deliver with accuracy.
• Intellectually curious with strong analytical, critical thinking, and big-picture capabilities.
• Resilient, persistent, and persuasive with a focus on goals and creative problem-solving.
• Highly proficient in Excel.
• Thorough knowledge of planning systems.
• Strong analytical, conceptual, and retail math skills.
• Minimum of three years retail merchandise planning experience.
• Minimum of two years' experience involving sales and inventory planning, sales forecasting, and OTB.

Skills

• Excel
• Planning systems
• Arthur Planning (desirable)
• Sales and inventory planning
• Sales forecasting
• OTB management
• Analytical skills
• Communication skills
• Flexibility
• Results Driven
• Intellectually curious
• Resilient

Experience Level

• Minimum of three years retail merchandise planning experience
• Minimum of two years' experience involving sales and inventory planning, sales forecasting and OTB

Education Level

• Bachelor’s Degree required

Salary/Compensations

• $98,000 - $110,000

Benefits

• A broad range of affordable health insurance options & personal medical plan concierge
• 401(k) with employer match and Life insurance
• Ample PTO including accrued vacation, paid holidays, diversity day, summer Fridays and the ability to purchase additional vacation.
• Employee stock purchase plan
• Access to health and wellness benefits such as BetterHelp and Headspace
• Charitable donations matched by Ross Stores Foundation