Planner

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The Planner will be responsible for the complete financial management of assigned areas of responsibility, including the creation of financial and merchandise plans, actualization of results, and a keen ability to identify, communicate, and implement strategic business opportunities at the category, style/choice, and season code levels. The Planner will forecast sales, markdowns, and inventory levels on a regular basis and identify risks to the business and develop action plans in cooperation with their merchandising partner to mitigate risks profitably.

• Creates monthly financial plans at the category level for fiscal time periods
• Presents Reforecast of sales, gross margin, and inventory at Monthly Business Meetings (MBR)
• Plans all Basics, Seasonal Basics and Fashion styles by choice
• Reforecasts all Basic and Seasonal Basic Key Items for all choices (sales, margin, inventory)
• Partners with Allocation on all basic stock replenishment (order quantity by style, color, and size)
• Partners with Sourcing on all basic receipt shifts based on sales trends
• Recaps end of season performance at season, category, and style levels for merchandise buy period
• Conducts daily, monthly, quarterly, and seasonal sales reporting
• Merchant and Planner relationships are critical to the success of the business, so high level of collaboration is a must
• Connectivity to the product and creating product relationships versus history is important