Associate Planning Manager
Hot Topic
full-time
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Location: California • 🇺🇸 United States
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💰 $80,000 - $105,000 per year
Job Level
JuniorMid-Level
About the role
- Plan and analyze assigned merchandise categories across Hot Topic’s retail and ecommerce business
- Communicate hits, misses and go-forward strategies with key business partners at Hot Topic
- Lead a direct report to develop their planning and critical thinking skill set
- Reviews plans and challenges strategies and thinking to ensure the most accurate plans
- Develop pre-season plans for sales, inventory, markdowns and margin in partnership with the buyers for both Retail Locations and Ecommerce
- Manage the in-season reforecast process, focusing on future opportunities as well as minimizing sales/inventory risks, and develop pricing and promotional strategies
- Lead style out, hindsight, and business review processes with standard and ad-hoc analysis
- Drive cross-functional strategies, partnering with allocation, ecom, marketing, and store ops
- Develop predictive models that predict customer demand, accounting for seasonality, promotions, and property release dates
- Manage the Open to Buy with the Buyer, communicating over/under-bought situations and providing recommendations for resolution
- Partner with buying team to develop sourcing strategy that will fit within profitability goals
- Work continually to improve profitability through sourcing, inventory management, pricing strategies, etc.
- Operate on a hybrid schedule requiring two to three days a week at Hot Topic HQ in City of Industry, CA
Requirements
- 5-7 years of retail allocation and merchandise planning experience
- 1-2 years of previous managerial experience
- Associate or Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
- Strong communication skills including ability to foster a creative and collaborative environment, give direct feedback,and possess solid verbal and written communication skills