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About the Role
The Wholesale Planner partners with the Senior Planner to support the financial and merchandise planning strategy for multiple wholesale apparel brands. This role involves developing forecasts, analyzing business performance, and providing insights to drive sales growth and profitability. The ideal candidate is analytical, commercially savvy, and skilled in wholesale planning, with the ability to leverage both traditional and AI-powered tools.
Responsibilities
- Partner with the Senior Planner in developing annual, seasonal, and monthly financial plans by brand, account, and product category.
- Manage account-level forecasting and in-season business projections, identifying risks and opportunities to achieve sales and margin objectives.
- Analyze trends, bookings, shipments, and account performance to support informed business decisions.
- Support budget, forecast, and long-range planning processes across multiple wholesale channels.
- Develop, maintain, and enhance weekly, monthly, and seasonal reporting packages.
- Monitor and analyze key business metrics including sales, bookings, margins, productivity, and account performance.
- Deliver timely business insights and strategic recommendations to planning leadership and cross-functional partners.
- Prepare executive recaps, hindsight analyses, and ad hoc reporting to support decision-making.
- Support planning activities across key wholesale customers, including department stores, specialty retailers, e-commerce partners, and marketplace channels.
- Analyze customer buy patterns, market performance, and product productivity to inform future planning strategies.
- Partner with Sales teams to evaluate opportunities, assess business health, and support account growth initiatives.
- Provide financial recaps and performance analysis during key market and selling milestones.
- Build strong partnerships with Sales, Merchandising, Production, Operations, and Supply Chain teams.
- Communicate risks, opportunities, and business performance clearly to stakeholders at multiple levels of the organization.
- Support strategic initiatives, process improvements, and enhancements to planning tools and reporting capabilities.
- Champion data-driven decision-making across the organization.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Merchandising, Statistics, or a related field.
- 3-5+ years of experience in wholesale planning, merchandise planning, forecasting, or other analytical roles within the apparel, retail, or consumer products industry.
- Wholesale apparel experience strongly preferred.
- Demonstrated experience managing financial plans, forecasts, and business performance analysis.
- Strong understanding of merchandising, forecasting, retail math, and wholesale business drivers.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel, including Pivot Tables, advanced formulas.
- Experience with planning systems, business intelligence platforms, and reporting tools preferred.
- Experience supporting multi-brand and multi-channel wholesale businesses.
- Experience with MicroStrategy, Full Circle, Skypad, SAP, Seventh Online, or NuOrder a plus.
- Demonstrated experience leveraging AI-enabled tools such as Microsoft Copilot, ChatGPT, Gemini, Power BI AI capabilities, or predictive analytics solutions to automate reporting, improve forecasting, identify business opportunities, and drive productivity.
- Curiosity and enthusiasm for applying emerging technologies to modern planning practices.
- Strong analytical and quantitative skills.
- Strategic thinker with solid business and financial acumen.
- Ability to synthesize complex data into actionable recommendations.
- Proven problem-solving and decision-making capabilities.
- Results-oriented with strong ownership and accountability.
- Excellent communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
- Highly organized, adaptable, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Exceptional attention to detail and commitment to accuracy.
Skills
- Wholesale Planning
- Merchandise Planning
- Forecasting
- Financial Planning
- Business Analysis
- Reporting
- Retail Math
- Microsoft Excel
- Pivot Tables
- AI-enabled tools
- Data Analysis
- Strategic Thinking
- Problem-Solving
- Communication
- Stakeholder Management
- Organization
- Adaptability
- Attention to Detail
Work Type
- Full-Time
Experience Level
- 3-5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- USD $62,700.00 - USD $114,000.00 /Yr.
Benefits
- Medical/dental/vision
- Term life insurance
- Paid vacation/holidays
- 401(k) with Company match
- Associate discount on Catalyst Brands merchandise
About the Company
- Catalyst Brands operates multiple wholesale apparel brands including Lucky Brand and Aéropostale.