Charlotte Russe Planning and Allocation Merchandise Planner

Planning and Allocation
Merchandise Planner
San Francisco, CA

Description:

General Summary:

The Merchandise Planner creates and manages sales and inventory plans at the department/class/style level for one or more departments. These sales and inventory plans support the Merchandising strategies, ensuring opportunity is maximized and financial plans are achieved.

Key Roles and Responsibilities:

• Contributes to the financial success of one or more departments by managing sales, gross margin, GMROI and inventory turn goals to meet or exceed financial objectives
• Develop and build department & class level plans that support division strategy
• Develop and build pre-season style/color plans
• Develop and communicate comprehensive department financial and product strategies.
• Responsible for open-to-buy activities at department/class level
• Forecast in-season sales and inventory and develop strategies to maximize opportunities and mitigate risk.
• Strategize, recommend and execute in-season pricing strategies to maximize sales and margin opportunity.
• Develop monthly forecasts of sales and inventory for Basics, if necessary for department.
• Drive sales and margin performance thru effective promotional activity
• Perform pre-season, in-season and post-season analysis to identify opportunities for future seasons.
• Proactively identify business opportunities and communicate appropriately.

• Demonstrated ability to influence and effectively negotiate with cross functional business partners
• Anticipate risks and develop plans and processes to reduce exposure
• Ability to evaluate business trends and draw actionable conclusions to maximize opportunity
• Set priorities and clear objectives to ensure that the team goals and objectives are meet and/or exceeded
• Able to use rigorous logic and methods to solve problems with effective solutions
• Ability to identify and communicate the opportunity to improve process
• Effective in a variety of presentation settings including one-on-one, small and large groups, and with peers and members of the leadership team.
• Demonstrated capability with MS Excel. And have aptitude to learn technical applications quickly.
• Demonstrated ability to track performance and measure results
• Possess strong organizational and time management skills
• Proficiency in retail math

Qualifications:

• Bachelors degree or equivalent experience
• 2-4 years of retail planning or inventory management experience preferred
• Specialty retail experience preferred

Posted by Stephanie Coronado