Strategic Fashion Inventory Planner – Wholesale & DTC

Purple-Brand; Vancouver; On-site; CAD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Extended health & dental

Flex spending account

3 weeks vacation

Employee discount program

Casual dress policy

Socials and events

Job summary

Purple-Brand in Vancouver is seeking an accomplished Merchandise/Financial Planning leader to own the 12-month sales, margin, and inventory plan across Wholesale and DTC. You will translate targets into merchandise plans and collaborate with Finance, Merchandising, Sales, and channel leadership.

This build role requires strong retail math, advanced Excel, and hands-on experience with NetSuite, Shopify, SkyPad, and Power BI.

Qualifications

• 7+ years in merchandise or financial planning at a fashion or apparel brand
• Fluent in retail math, forecasting, OTB, WOS, and turn
• Advanced Excel; hands-on with NetSuite, Shopify, SkyPad, and Power BI
• Turns analysis into a recommendation someone can act on
• Comfortable building process from scratch and moving between the plan on a page and the SKU underneath it

Responsibilities

• The 12-month sales, margin, and inventory plan - top-down targets reconciled against bottom-up forecasts, with monthly and weekly reforecasts against trend
• Seasonal OTB across both channels, managing WOS, turn, ATS, and receipt flow against investment targets
• Seasonal planning with Merchandising - investment levels, assortment architecture, SKU depth and breadth - plus post-season hindsight on sell-through, margin, and forecast accuracy
• Translating demand signals and in-season performance from Wholesale and DTC leaders into inventory plans, allocation, and replenishment
• Early calls on inventory risk - excess, aged, shortages, sell-off - and the actions that resolve them
• Variance analysis and gross margin adjustments (transfers, RTVs, shrink, promotions, discounts), with clear risks, opportunities, and recommendations to leadership

Skills

Merchandise planning

Retail math

Forecasting

Advanced Excel

NetSuite

Shopify

SkyPad

Power BI

Tools

NetSuite

Shopify

SkyPad

Power BI

Job description

Purple-Brand in Vancouver is seeking an accomplished Merchandise/Financial Planning leader to own the 12-month sales, margin, and inventory plan across Wholesale and DTC. You will translate targets into merchandise plans and collaborate with Finance, Merchandising, Sales, and channel leadership.

This build role requires strong retail math, advanced Excel, and hands-on experience with NetSuite, Shopify, SkyPad, and Power BI.