Merchandise Planner

Entertainment Retail Enterprises, LLC; Town of Florida (NY); Hybrid; USD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health Insurance

Dental Insurance

Vision Insurance

Paid time off

Employee discount

401k

Job summary

Entertainment Retail Enterprises, LLC is seeking a detail-oriented Merchandise Planner to forecast and manage category performance across multiple channels. You will analyze historical data, develop pre-season forecasts, and communicate actionable insights to merchandising, marketing, and finance teams.

You will collaborate across departments to align strategies, drive inventory efficiency, and support financial objectives.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in Business or related field is required.
• Experience with retail forecasting and inventory management preferred.
• Strong analytical skills and comfort manipulating large data sets.

Responsibilities

• Forecast and manage pre-season and in-season sales, margin, and inventory across channels.
• Analyze historical trends to influence forecasts and opportunities by category.
• Prepare and present reports to merchandising, marketing, and finance teams.
• Collaborate with departments to align pre-season and in-season strategies.
• Develop knowledge of reporting tools and distributed channels.

Skills

Forecasting

Analytical thinking

Data manipulation

Open to Buy

Inventory management

Sales forecasting

Verbal communication

Education

Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field

Tools

Excel

PowerPoint

PivotTables

Excel formulas

NetSuite

Job description

For over 24 years, Entertainment Retail Enterprises has been the leading design and distribution company in destination retail, providing development and manufacturing of licensed and private label merchandise for some of the best-known, iconic brands and retailers in the world. A few to mention are Disney, Mars, Walmart, Hard Rock, Ford, Caterpillar, and Legendary Whitetails. We partner with brands and retailers to design, develop, and manufacture fresh and exciting products in cohesive assortments. Our specialty is developing customized products featuring on-trend graphics and design, delivered across multiple channels with diverse fulfillment criteria. Our unique capabilities include traditional manufacturing, print on demand, personalization, turnkey displays, and e-commerce.

Requirements

The Merchandise Planner will own the role of developing, executing, and communicating merchandise financial forecasts and strategies that support the category merchandising, marketing, and financial objectives across several channels of distribution. You are responsible for analyzing historical trends to influence pre-season forecasts while simultaneously hitting in-season financial sales, margin, and inventory targets. Comfort with reporting and recapping will be critical in this role. This is an analytical job-we need someone who is detail-oriented and excellent with manipulating data. This role is highly influential across the organization.

How You Will Make a Difference

What you will do:

• Drive financial results that maximize sales, inventory, and profitability across multiple channels of distribution
• Create pre-season forecasts and manage in-season sales forecasts and inventory across multiple channels of distribution
• Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by category of business and in some cases by item
• Process, predict, and analyze product demand, including specific factors relating to product promotions, creative promotions, and seasonality
• Seek solutions to business obstacles and process opportunities

How You Will Do It

• Collaborate with all departments to develop pre-season strategies that align with future financial and product opportunities
• Work across the organization to ensure timely and accurate execution of in-season product strategies
• Develop knowledge of new reporting systems, planning tools, and multiple distribution channels
• Manage inventory and constantly strive for improved productivity

Years of Related Professional Experience: 3+ years

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business or related field (Required)
• US work authorization (Required)

What We Expect You To Already Know

• Retail Fundamentals and Business Acumen: Open to Buy, Inventory Management, Sales/Inventory forecasting
• Internal relationship management
• Sound decision-making skills and the ability to plan and prioritize short-range and long-range projects
• Flexibility and Agility- quickly understand, assess, and problem solve
• Effective verbal communication skills, including meeting facilitation and presentations
• Intermediate to Advanced use of Microsoft Excel and PowerPoint
• Creating dynamic reports with PivotTables
• Understanding of Excel formulas such as IF, INDEX, MATCH, VLOOKUP, XLOOKUP, CONCATENATE, TRIM, and other financial and text formulas
• Knowledge of Data Uploads and maintenance of data is a plus
• Excel Macros is a plus
• NetSuite experience is a plus

Benefits

• Health Insurance
• Dental Insurance
• Vision Insurance
• Paid time off
• Employee discount
• 401k

Schedule

• Monday to Friday
• Friday is a work-from-home day