Job Description

Our client, a leading apparel and sporting goods manufacturing company, is looking for a Planner - Merchandising. This is for an initial duration of 3 months and is located in Beaverton, OR.

Job Type: Contract (Candidates must be able to work on W2 without VISA sponsorship)

Top Skills:

• Retail experience
• Comfortable in excel and power point (and box)
• Curious, problem-solver, and resourceful

Description:

• Manages the financial success of area of responsibility by meeting strategic objectives.
• Establishes clear merchandise plans that tell a story for the season and drives merchandising to create a line plan grounded in profitability and consumer centric offerings
• Recaps and analyzes actual sales results to plan and forecast in-season sales and inventories.
• Collaborates with retail counterparts to manage sales / inventory plans that yield maximum sales & profits for the client and the retailer.
• Proactively reports on the health of the business and facilitate smart business decisions.
• Drives process improvements.
• Helps establish consistency in the Planning process, both in documentation and implementation
• Provides retailer information to assist account team in the go to market process.
• Collaborates with the account team in aligning the product assortment & retailer sales/margin/turn goals.
• Provides selling data from current and previous seasons to assist the account team in assortment planning by location cluster/gender/category/class for the Brand.
• Evaluates retailer assortment needs versus category objectives, provides opportunities and communicates opportunities/risks

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