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About the Role
The Senior Strategic Planner leads promotional strategy, brand planning, forecasting, and business planning to achieve sales, margin, and inventory turn goals. This role collaborates with Merchandising, Inventory Management, Distribution, Sourcing, and E-commerce teams to provide business insights, manage planning processes, and drive operational excellence.
Responsibilities
- Streamline and simplify the promotional planning process.
- Provide timelines, due dates, and visibility to baseline promotions at the department and category level.
- Provide SKU counts, sales results, and margin performance reporting.
- Lead weekly meetings and influence cross-functional teams and leadership to align on promotional strategies.
- Communicate upcoming promotional activities and business impacts.
- Develop and enhance analytical tools and planning files to improve operational efficiency.
- Manage the brand dailies process, including demand and net sales forecasting.
- Provide upside and risk scenarios based on business trends.
- Support Open-to-Buy (OTB) planning processes, communications, rollups, and recaps.
- Support Floor Set and Mid-Season preparation activities.
- Create weekly budgets for new and reintroduced SKUs.
- Create, maintain, and publish Inventory Review (IR) deliverables, supporting files, and targets.
- Monitor business performance and identify opportunities and risks.
- Drive proactive communication and alignment on strategies, priorities, and deliverables with cross-functional partners.
Requirements
- Bachelor's degree in Business, Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, Retail Merchandising, or a related field.
- 5+ years of experience in retail planning, inventory management, merchandise planning, allocation, forecasting, or related analytical functions.
- Strong analytical and financial acumen.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience working with forecasting, inventory, and reporting tools.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment.
- Strong communication, presentation, and stakeholder management skills.
Skills
- Promotional Strategy
- Brand Planning
- Forecasting
- Business Planning
- Analytical Tools
- Microsoft Excel
- Stakeholder Management
Experience Level
- 5+ years
Education Level
- Bachelor's degree
Salary/Compensations
- $95,000-$110,000
Benefits
- A generous discount on all WSI brands
- A 401(k) plan and other investment opportunities
- Paid vacations, holidays, and time off to volunteer
- Health benefits, dental and vision insurance, including same-sex domestic partner benefits
- Tax-free commuter benefits
- A wellness program that supports your physical, financial and emotional health
- In-person and online learning opportunities through WSI University
- Cross-brand and cross-function career opportunities
- Resources for self-development
- Advisor (Mentor) program
- Career development workshops, learning programs, and speaker series
About the Company
- Founded in 1956, Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is the premier specialty retailer of high-quality products for the kitchen and home in the United States.
- Our family of brands are Williams Sonoma, Williams Sonoma Home, Pottery Barn, Pottery Barn Kids, Pottery Barn Teen, Rejuvenation, West Elm, Mark & Graham, Outward, and GreenRow.
- These brands are among the best known and most respected in the industry.
- We offer beautifully-designed, stylish and functional products for every area of the home, including the kitchen, living room, bedroom, home office, closet, laundry room and even outdoor spaces.
- We've seen some big changes since our first brick-and-mortar store opened more than half of a century ago.
- What hasn't changed is our passion for high-quality products, functional design, outstanding customer service, and enhancing the lives of our customers and the communities where we operate.
- Today, we're a multi-brand, multi-channel, global enterprise supported by state-of-the-art technology and some of the most talented teams in retailing - and we're always looking for new energy and ideas.
Equal Opportunity
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer.
- Williams-Sonoma, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, or other applicable state or local laws and ordinances.