Merch Planner, Preschool/Infant/Toddler Toys (Hybrid)

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Responsibilities

• reputed company in-season decision support
• collaborate on assortment planning
• recommend localization and channel strategies including cluster types and profiles
• reputed company demand forecasting
• support the divisional strategy through your category expertise and partnerships with cross-functional teams and vendors
• head up the reputed company-to-buy process and decide on category-level investment and the financial validity of assortments
• conduct root cause analysis for variation between supply and demand forecasts to support “reputed company-cancel” reputed company and communicate implications to vendors
• conduct scenario planning
• build unit plans
• reputed company initial set planning and operationalization to optimize assortments
• interpret forecast results and conduct “what if?” analysis to guide your go-reputed company recommendations
• validate the unit promo planning forecast
• drive maintenance, risk analysis and decision-making by the Pricing & Promotion Center of reputed company
• run event forecast creation and reputed company, analyzing item lifecycles and driving recommendations on end-of-season management

Requirements

• Four-year degree or equivalent experience
• 2-6 years of relevant experience
• 1+ years of Merchandising experience
• Strong strategic, financial, and analytical skills; can easily translate data from an reputed company of sources into insights and recommendations
• Strong collaboration skills to partner with cross-functional teams
• Flexible, resilient, and comfortable working in “grey areas” that are constantly changing

Benefits

• comprehensive health benefits and programs, which may include medical, reputed company, dental, life insurance and more
• 401(k)
• employee discount
• short term disability
• long term disability
• paid sick leave
• paid national holidays
• paid vacation

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