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About the role
Key responsibilities & impact- Direct the development of divisional, departmental and bottom-up merchandise financial plans; work with Senior Management, Corporate Planning and team to ensure company EBITDA goals are met or exceeded.
- Lead team to drive assortment, pricing, profitability and inventory analytics to be used by Buying teams during the product and assortment planning processes (merchandise strategy, inventory planning, assortment & buy planning)
- Partner with the DMM/MM in the divisional monthly forecast meetings; manage opportunities and risks through the monthly forecast process
- Analyze historical and current trends to identify risks or opportunities and recommend strategies to increase sales and achieve business and financial objectives
- Build a high-quality planning team and maintain bench strength by developing partnerships, leading, coaching and providing constructive feedback
- Facilitate team environment between Buying, Merchandise Planning and Allocation organizations
- Lead initiatives to instill best practices and develop support infrastructure by evaluating techniques, processes and systems with management to identify improvement areas
- Lead and Exhibit Planning values
Requirements
What you’ll need- Bachelor's Degree Preferred
- 4-6 years retail experience Required
- 1-3 years merchandise or financial planning Required
- Effectively manages a large scope of responsibility to achieve financial targets based on a sound knowledge of merchandising concepts
- Thinks conceptually and strategically
- Is highly organized and multitasks
- Builds and maintains productive cross-functional relationships
- Prioritizes and manages workload and processes to meet company objectives
- Takes calculated risks to achieve results
- Crafts targeted and effective verbal and written communications
- Fosters a strong team environment and works effectively with management
- Adapts to shifting circumstances in a business environment
- Exhibits ethics, fairness & values-based decisions
- Maintains professionalism in work relationships and habits
- Provides direction, counseling and coaching to staff
- Develops creative solutions to business issues
- Demonstrates extensive knowledge of the industry
- Provides broad market perspective on trends and business opportunities
- Works effectively with staff and Divisional/BSS management to achieve sound financial and merchandising solutions based on analysis, input and experience
- Proficient in business-related computer software (Microsoft Windows, Word, Excel, etc.)
Benefits
Comp & perks- Complies with all policies and standards
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Hard Skills & Tools
merchandise financial planninginventory planningassortment planningfinancial analysisrisk managementsales strategyprofitability analysisforecasting
Soft Skills
leadershipcoachingcommunicationorganizational skillsmultitaskingrelationship buildingstrategic thinkingadaptabilityteam collaborationproblem-solving
Certifications
Bachelor's Degree