Retail Planner — Club Membership & Discounts

Equinox Fitness Club; New York (NY); On-site; USD 83,000 - 93,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Complimentary Club membership

Employee discounts on services

Job summary

Equinox Fitness Club is seeking a Retail Planner to support merchandise planning and growth across the company’s clubs. The role partners with planning leadership to develop annual sales, margin, and inventory targets, analyze performance, and communicate needs to stores and the buying team.

You will own reporting, drive markdowns, and help optimize stock levels with a data-driven mindset. We offer competitive salary and benefits, with opportunities across Equinox’s portfolio of brands.

Qualifications

• 2-3 years of experience in merchandise planning.
• Strong analytical ability with a passion for numbers and product.
• Demonstrates a complete comprehension of retail math and its application.
• Eagerness to learn and a winning attitude.
• High proficiency in Microsoft Excel and computer savvy.
• Able to work productively in a fast-paced team environment and effectively throughout the Company.
• Organizational and time management skills.
• Enthusiastic, energetic, personable, hardworking, flexible and diligent.

Responsibilities

• Partner with Director of Planning to develop annual sales, margin, and turn plans.
• Assist with the OTB process by analyzing monthly performance along with changes in business strategy and receipt flows to reforecast sales, markdowns, and inventory.
• Own daily, weekly, and monthly sales and inventory reporting.
• Analyze sales performance and stock levels for key categories and classifications, recommend adjustments and set allocation targets by department and location.
• Communicate with stores and buying team on overarching business, assortment needs, stock levels.
• Manage vendor performance and assists buying team in evaluating any opportunity or liability.
• Manage the vendor allowance process, ensuring all credits are processed by accounts payable each month.
• Ensure all merchandise adjustments (MOOS, Damages, Transfers, RTVs) are closed out weekly/monthly to ensure accurate inventory reporting and replenishment.
• Lead markdown process – provide department targets to buying, own pricing updates, and reporting.
• Assist with maintaining inventory best practices – providing transfer order support to warehouse and clubs, annual physical inventory process, and flagging data issues.
• Ad hoc reporting and projects, as needed.

Skills

2-3 years merchandise planning

Strong analytical ability

Retail math proficiency

Eagerness to learn

Excellent Excel skills

Organizational skills

Energetic and diligent

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Equinox Fitness Club is seeking a Retail Planner to support merchandise planning and growth across the company’s clubs. The role partners with planning leadership to develop annual sales, margin, and inventory targets, analyze performance, and communicate needs to stores and the buying team.

You will own reporting, drive markdowns, and help optimize stock levels with a data-driven mindset. We offer competitive salary and benefits, with opportunities across Equinox’s portfolio of brands.