Analyst, Merchandise Planning - Banana Republic Japan

Gapinc; San Francisco (CA); On-site; USD 90,000 - 130,000; Full time

Job summary

Gap Inc. is seeking an Inventory Management professional to drive the financial roadmap for product categories, balancing brand strategy and customer needs with forecasting and financial planning.

In this role, you will manage inventory from PO creation to arrival, build seasonal plans, and collaborate across Merchandising, Visual, Production, and Planning to ensure on-time product availability and financial targets.

Qualifications

• Experience with inventory planning and forecasting in retail.
• Strong analytical and storytelling skills.
• Proficient Excel and data systems.

Responsibilities

• Analyze historical data and trends to identify risks and opportunities by division.
• Collaborate with Merchandising to align financial and product opportunities by division.
• Create preseason sales, gross margin and inventory plans by division.
• Reconcile top-down to bottom-up division plans.
• Recap and analyze actual sales results to plan and forecast in-season sales and inventories.

Skills

Excel

Analytical skills

Forecasting

Job description

About the Role

In this role you will be a part of the Inventory Management team that brings the financial strategy of our product vision to life by managing the largest financial asset of the company: our product itself. In your role, you will drive the success of one or more product categories by creating a financial roadmap and marrying it to brand strategy and customer needs. You are passionate about using your qualitative and quantitative skillset in a fashion retail environment and find joy and creativity in forecasting and financial planning. You are curious, innovative, and focused on executing an amazing customer experience while delivering/exceeding financial targets. Strong analytical and storytelling skills will serve you well, and a collaborative mindset is a must.

What You'll Do

• Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by division and department
• Collaborate with Merchandising to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities by division and department
• Create preseason sales, gross margin and inventory plans by division and department that support product strategies
• Reconcile top down to bottom-up division/department plans
• Recap and analyze actual sales results to plan and historical, and forecast in season sales and inventories on a weekly / monthly / quarterly basis
• Manage inventory from PO Creation to arrival as Distribution Center through receipt reconciliation, purchase order tracking, and size and pack management to ensure inventory is accurately positioned to support business needs
• Identify and proactively resolve purchase order, receipt, and inventory flow discrepancies in partnership with cross-functional teams to support on-time product availability
• Develop, collaborate, and maintain effective working relationships with members of cross functional team (Merchandising, Visual, Production, Allocation, and Planning)

Who You Are

• Must love Excel, have strong technical skills, and be systems savvy
• Believe in the Power of Team; builds constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of business partners
• Possess strong business acumen and strategic agility, able to handle many projects simultaneously while effectively prioritizing workload
• Demonstrate strong listening, written and oral communication skills, able to present ideas and directions that rally others to action