Merchandise Planning Analyst: Forecasting & Inventory

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

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.