Senior Merchandise Planner
FabFitFun is looking for a Senior Merchandise Planner to join our team at our HQ in West Hollywood! Supporting our Sr. Director, Merchandise Strategy, this role will be responsible for building innovative processes while leading a planning team focused on our eCommerce flash sales. Ideal candidates will have proven success within a merchandising/buying role specializing in sized apparel and dropship products.
What You’ll Do:
- Manage open to buy through tops down and bottoms up forecasting for future seasons in multiple categories
- Spearhead replenishment ladder plans
- Oversee and optimize inventory levels including liquidation strategies on a monthly, seasonal, and annual basis
- Lead a planning team; mentor Planner and define role responsibilities during analysis and forecasting, manage cross functional planning processes for multiple categories, and help identify opportunities for improvement to support scalable business growth
- Partner with Finance, buying teams, and project managers to align on company strategies and develop processes to execute them
- Analyze historical data and performance metrics at category and brand level to build a bottoms up plan that aligns with growth plans across Merchandising department
- Create processes to support Top Brand Plans in order to support sustained YOY growth in productivity and margin
- Utilize hindsight analysis to develop innovative strategies for revenue and profitability growth
What You’ll Bring:
- 5+ years relevant experience in a Merchandise Planning and/or Buying function (Subscription or Off Price model preferred)
- Bachelor's degree in Merchandising, Business, Communications or a related field
- At least 1-2 years effectively managing a planning team
- Ability to evaluate financial and business indicators and translate data into actionable information to drive results
- Effective in a variety of presentation settings including one-on-one, small and large groups, and executive communication
- Comprehension in and capable to train retail math
- Can think objectively and interpret meaningful themes from data
- Understanding of rigorous logic and methods to solve problems with effective solutions
- Strength in fostering highly effective and collaborative cross-functional relationships
- Demonstrate an ability to set objectives and goals and organize work to appropriately to meet and exceed goals
- Proficiency in Microsoft Suite (Advanced Excel), Google Docs and have aptitude to learn technical applications quickly
- Strategic ability and desire to apply knowledge and skillset to evaluate challenges and quickly create processes and systems to streamline work, analysis, and problem solve
What You'll Get:
- Amazing benefits including medical, dental, vision, FSA, and 401k
- The opportunity to work in a collaborative environment full of bright, driven, and happy people
- Be a part of one of the fastest growing companies in the US that is revolutionizing eCommerce
- Flexible PTO
- Free FabFitFun subscription and quarterly credit in the Add-Ons store