Associate Planner

Kohl's; Menomonee Falls (WI); Hybrid; USD 60,000 - 75,000; Full time

Job summary

Kohl's is seeking an Associate Planner to work at their Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. This role involves influencing financial plans, analyzing historical data, and collaborating with merchandising teams to meet customer satisfaction. You will be responsible for developing financial projections, managing inventory flow, and maintaining key planning applications.

The position offers a hybrid work schedule, with onsite work from Monday to Thursday and remote work available on Fridays.

Qualifications

• Ability to influence financial plans and ensure customer satisfaction.
• Experience collaborating with merchandising teams.
• Strong analytical skills for forecasting trends.

Responsibilities

• Develop financial plans and projections for product assortments.
• Maintain Enterprise Planning, KP2, and Vendor Performance Summaries.
• Manage inventory flow and updates to Open-to-Buy.

Skills

Strategic thinker

Effective communicator

Adept multitasking

Spreadsheet manipulation

Job description

About The Role

As Associate Planner you will directly influence your buying office’s ability to meet financial plans and ensure customer satisfaction. You will build brand category plans from the bottom up, analyze historical data to forecast trends and capture them through inventory deployment strategies. You will work in multiple seasons at a time, offer insights into current results and recommend future actions to drive profitable sales.

What You’ll Do

• Work collaboratively with the merchandising team for your category of business to provide financial plans and projections for your product assortments
• Build, update and maintain Enterprise Planning (EP), KP2 web-based application and Vendor Performance Summaries (VPS)
• Update Open-to-Buy (OTB) after the first pass is completed
• Vendor and Brand management
• Form and recap population
• Manage inventory flow; push, cancel and chase
• KPIs include: Sales, Margin and Turn
• Partner with teams such as merchants, product development, supply chain, space planning and digital to drive overall strategy and results
• Coach others in more junior roles to evaluate weekly replenishment and inventory flow strategies
• Additional tasks may be assigned

Required Skills

• Strategic thinker and creative problem solver
• Effective communicator
• Adept multitasking skills
• Experience creating and manipulating spreadsheets

This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. You’ll work onsite from Monday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.