Location:
Secaucus, New JerseyJob Summary:Basics Planner is responsible for the creation of financial sales plans, actualization of results, and communicating business risks/opportunities at the division, category, and style level. This position will be responsible for maintaining appropriate inventory levels that support baseline and promotional sales. Supporting assortment initiatives, while achieving inventory in-stock, turn over and financial goals.
Responsibilities:
Key Accountabilities
- Create wholesale preseason sales, margin and inventory plans by Division/Category/Style that support product and financial strategies
- Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by Division/Category
- Manage in-season sales and stock performance weekly, executing formal reforecast on monthly basis
- Present forecasts and action plans in monthly open-to-buy meetings across 52-week horizon
- Recap monthly/quarterly best-sellers by category against last plan and LY
- Analyze and communicate size and color selling to impact future receipts
- Collaborate with TCP Merchant team on aligned assortment approach
- Collaborate with TCP planning and inventory management teams on cross channel inventory movements
- Ownership of weekly selling reports for Amazon
Education and Experience
- Bachelor’s degree
- 3+ years of experience in related role; wholesale planning preferred
Skills and Behavior
- Strong data analysis skills; ability to identify critical trends, patterns and root causes
- High level of comfort using and creating custom tools
- High level of comfort in excel based tools; perform calculations and automation to process large volumes of data
- Ability to develop strategies driving sales and inventory buying decision making
- Strong knowledge of retail market, including nuance of wholesale planning
- Proficiency in Cognos or other BI tools/data sources
- JDA Knowledge a plus
- Vendor Central a plus
- Strong sense of urgency, high energy, and enthusiasm
- Ability to work under pressure, through setbacks and ambiguity
- Ability to work with and build relationships with all levels of the organization
- Strong verbal and written communication skills
Top Skills
What We Do
The Children’s Place is the largest pure-play children’s specialty apparel retailer in North America. The Company designs, contracts to manufacture, sells and licenses to sell fashionable, high-quality merchandise at value prices, primarily under the proprietary “The Children’s Place”, "Place" and "Baby Place" brand names. As of November 3, 2018, the Company operated 988 stores in the United States, Canada and Puerto Rico, an online store at www.childrensplace.com, and had 211 international points of distribution open and operated by its eight franchise partners in 20 countries.
