Retail Planner / Merchandise Planner (Fashion Retail) - GrowthWise Search Partners

Make your mark, create impact and grow with us. Introduce pivotal insights, implement your favorite Retail Planning software, and bring more data analysis to our team that unlocks our growth potential.

You are the keys to that!

Your opportunity: Retail Planner / Merchandise Planner

Your mission: Work with the team to expand overall market share, retail footprint and business impact.

Retail Planner / Merchandise Planner (fashion retail) – What You Will Do

You will work directly with the sales and account management team to provide merchandise metrics in pursuit of increased growth and market share.

• Collect and analyze weekly, monthly and seasonal retail sales data to identify opportunities for additional inventory expansion, inventory stock levels, additional sales channels and/or modifications to the sales and inventory strategy
• Review and analyze sales data to identify trends, in order to bring ideas and suggestions
• Monitor markdown cadence and aged-inventory levels in order to maximize profitability while achieving necessary sell-thrus
• Work with business analysist to maximize Weekly, Monthly, Quarterly planning reports on KPIs.

• Collaborate with the Sales team (VP of Sales, Sales Manager, Account Executives and Sales Assistants), communicating your findings
• Review internal metrics and external data to help inform merchandising and pricing decisions

Retail Planner / Merchandise Planner (fashion retail) – Required Skills, Experience & Personality Fit

• You have prior experience working in a Retail Planning role / retail experience
• You are a number crunching master – very comfortable working in MS Excel including complex formulas, multi-tab spreadsheets and pivot tables
• Experienced with retail planning software platforms
• You take initiative to identify challenges and bring your ideas and solutions
• Desire to move up into a Senior Planner role, and potentially develop a team alongside you
• Ability to work in the office Monday – Thursday, 9am to 5pm

Retail Planner / Merchandise Planner (fashion retail) – You Might Have:

• Experience with apparel marketing / fashion retail
• Experience in financial analysis in a retail role

Compensation $70,000 - $80,000, depending on experience.

You will be provided with company-sponsored medical, dental and vision insurance options, 401k with company contribution, paid holidays, paid time off, supplemental life and other supplemental insurances, and more.

This role is a hybrid role, Monday – Thursday in office with the team and Friday work from home.