Senior Merchandise Planner — Inventory & Forecasting Leader

Tailored Brands, Inc.; Dublin (CA); On-site; USD 133,000 - 175,000; Full time

Benefits offered by this job

Health insurance

401k

Paid time off

Life insurance

Disability insurance

Merchandise discount

Adoption assistance

Education assistance

Legal services

Wellbeing program

Commuter benefits

Job summary

Tailored Brands is seeking a Senior Planner to join our Merchandise Planning team in Dublin, CA. You will develop merchandise open-to-buy and inventory plans, forecast strategies, and manage coordination with Merchandising, Planning, and Replenishment to optimize inventory and hit company targets.

You will lead planning projects, analyze performance data, and drive allocation strategies to ensure the right products reach stores.

Qualifications

• Bachelor’s degree in a relevant field.
• 12+ years of experience in a planning role.
• Retail apparel experience with Direct Sourced products a plus.
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Extremely detail oriented and able to analyze down to the lowest level.
• Proficiency in Microsoft Office including Excel; Microstrategy reporting a plus; Blue Yonder EP Planning a plus.
• Replenishment proficiency a plus.

Responsibilities

• Develops merchandise open-to-buy and inventory plans.
• Assists Merchandising in development of strategic and assortment plans.
• Develops merchandise financial plans and ensures reconciliation with top-down goals.
• Ensures plans reconcile and meet brand/ company objectives.
• Manages business to help meet company targets on sales, gross margin performance, sell-through, markdowns, inventory levels and turn.
• Analyzes performance data and provides business and analytical support to merchant teams.
• Drives allocation strategy to ensure the right level of products are allocated to stores based on trend and historical performance.
• Manages execution of the day-to-day merchandise allocation and replenishment processes that support desired inventory levels and sales/margin objectives.
• Monitors sell-thru performance and suggest appropriate product movement and markdown tactics where appropriate.
• Performs quantitative end-of-season analysis and provides information and key highlights to merchants.

Skills

12+ years exp

Retail apparel exp

Excel

Microstrategy

Blue Yonder EP Planning

Replenishment

Education

Bachelor’s degree

Tools

Microsoft Excel

Job description

Tailored Brands is seeking a Senior Planner to join our Merchandise Planning team in Dublin, CA. You will develop merchandise open-to-buy and inventory plans, forecast strategies, and manage coordination with Merchandising, Planning, and Replenishment to optimize inventory and hit company targets.

You will lead planning projects, analyze performance data, and drive allocation strategies to ensure the right products reach stores.