Title: Planner, ECommerce
Salary range: 80-95K
What You’ll Be Responsible For:
- Build annual demand budget by forecasting daily traffic, conversion, AOV, and UPT for the e-commerce business by partnering with digital marketing, digital experience, site, and data teams by understanding expected growth by channel, site, and customer behaviors, selling patterns by department, and other marketing, promotional historical demand.
- Manage and update monthly OTB (Open to Buy Forecast for Net Sales, Gross Margin, Returns, Markdown vs. Full Price based on the demand forecast).
- Partner with Retail Store Planner and Wholesale teams to create DTC Promotional Calendar to forecast promotional sales plans including sales, margin, inventory while executing strategic promotional pricing and proposing strategies to liquidate excess inventory.
- Establish annual/seasonal classification level receipt budget by month and develop SKU plans.
- Create seasonal, monthly, and weekly plans by department.
- Manage and update replenishment style sales and on-order forecast bi-monthly.
- Identify, communicate, and implement strategic business opportunities.
- Assist in automating reporting process, run ad hoc reporting as needed.
- Creation of Monday reports and recaps used to analyze business and direct actions.
- Collaborate with cross-functional business partners on business needs.
Qualifications/Experience We’re Looking For:
- At minimum 3-5 years of experience in planning or buying.
- E-commerce background preferred but not required.
- Minimum Bachelor’s Degree.
- Able to manage own priorities and set own work objectives and proactively identify business issues and develop creative solutions.
- Must be a quick learner that is flexible and adaptive to changing priorities.
- Must be an excel master with the ability to build excel models.
- Experience using Anaplan MFP, Assortment, Allocation & Replenishment Apps a plus.
- Excellent retail math and mathematical skills.
- Strong communication/multi-tasking skills.
- Ability to work cross functionally in a collaborative environment.
Benefits at Vince:
- Robust healthcare options for medical, dental, vision, flexible spending, and health savings account with employer funding
- 401(k) with employer match
- Generous paid time off plans for vacation, sick, and personal, volunteer time, as well as company holidays
- Hybrid and flexible work options available for roles that can be done remotely
- Clothing allowance & merchandise discounts
- $400 annual gym reimbursement
- Monthly data/phone stipend for eligible roles
- Mental health support tools and telehealth psychology and psychiatry
- Family and caregiving benefits including a competitive paid parental leave program as well as supplemental infertility coverage
- Life, accidental death & dismemberment, short-term disability, and long-term disability insurance
- Supplemental hospital indemnity, specified disease, and accident coverage
- Pre-tax commuter benefits including transit and parking
- Discounted pet, home & auto, and legal insurance
V Opco, LLC is an equal opportunity employer and does not discriminate against any applicant or employee because of race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, national origin, disability, genetic information, age, or military or veteran status or any other status protected by applicable federal, state or local law. V Opco, LLC also provides reasonable accommodation to qualified individuals with disabilities in accordance with applicable laws.
Skills Required
- 3-5 years of experience in planning or buying
- Bachelor's degree
- Ability to manage priorities, set work objectives, identify business issues, and develop creative solutions
- Ability to learn quickly and adapt to changing priorities
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills, including building Excel models
- Strong retail math and mathematical skills
- Strong communication and multitasking skills
- Ability to work cross-functionally in a collaborative environment
- E-commerce experience
- Experience using Anaplan MFP, Assortment, Allocation, and Replenishment applications
What We Do
Established in 2002, Vince is a leading global luxury apparel and accessories brand best known for creating elevated yet understated pieces for every day. The collections are inspired by the brand’s California origins and embody a feeling of warm and effortless style. Vince designs uncomplicated yet refined pieces that approach dressing with a sense of ease. Known for a range of luxury products, Vince offers women’s and men’s ready-to-wear, shoes, home, fragrance, and handbags. Vince products are sold in prestige locations worldwide. Headquartered in New York and Los Angeles, the Company operates 48 full-price retail stores, 15 outlet stores and its e-commerce site, vince.com. Vince is searching for talent with passion, creativity, and entrepreneurial spirit to contribute to the future development of the brand. As a company, Vince is committed to offering employees a challenging and rewarding work environment, opportunities for growth and development, a customer focused culture, a community to “give-back”, and competitive pay and benefits.
