About this role
## About the Role
The Planner drives the creation, management and execution of allocation strategies and inventory plans that support the financial goals and product strategies for their area of responsibility.
## What You'll Do
- Evaluate inventory strategy and adjust to react to changes in in-season business.
- Partner with manager to create and align seasonal allocation strategies that supports the inventory investment, and develop contingency plans to minimize risks
- Forecast, track, and communicate inventory levels throughout product pipeline to ensure execution of strategies
- Owns allocations, inventory and positioning for Vendor Managed Inventory/Basics including collaborating on receipts with cross functional team and vendors.
- Shares out weekly and seasonal business review
- Drive size and pack process to optimize inventory levels; use hindsight to build strategy to improve performance
- Ability to evaluate financial indicators and translate data into actionable information to drive results
- Identifies, communicates and resolves inventory callouts, DC capacity constraints, or other business issues in a timely manner
- Provide insight at milestones meetings and be a partner on solutions
- Evaluate style performance and own inventory adjustments to support sales forecast in conjunction with marketing events and seasonality.
- Assist with onboarding new team members
Who You Are
- Possess and demonstrate expert analysis and problem-solving skills, driving for innovative approaches to meet objectives with speed and conviction
- Strong interpersonal skills and ability to work well as part of a cross functional team
- Comfortable with complex systems and large data sets
- Experience in advanced Microsoft Excel
- 3+ years work experience, preferably in Allocation, Planning, Supply Chain, Industrial Engineering, Stores
- Bachelor's degree or equivalent experience with proficiency in retail math