Associate Inventory Planner- Lands' End School Outfitters

Associate Inventory Planner
- Lands' End School Outfitters

Employees must be able to perform the essential functions of this position satisfactorily. The requirements listed below are representative of the duties, knowledge, skills, and/or abilities required. If requested, reasonable accommodations may be made to enable employees with disabilities to perform the essential functions.

• Develop, execute, and communicate demand forecasts and inventory plans for assigned lower complexity categories, programs, customers, or business segments.
• Support inventory strategies that align with customer service goals, account needs, merchandising strategies, sales objectives, and financial plans.
• Deliver pre-season projections, inventory recommendations, and early commit needs for assigned areas.
• Analyze historical sales, demand, productivity, service levels, inventory performance, and current trends to identify risks and opportunities.
• Recommend inventory actions that support sales, customer service, margin, fill rate, inventory turn, and GMROI goals.
• Monitor in-season business performance and update forecasts, inventory plans, and action steps in planning systems.
• Recap and analyze key financial and inventory metrics versus plan, forecast, and prior year.
• Partner with Sales, Program Management, Merchandising, and Sourcing to understand customer needs, account strategies, enrollment trends, product lifecycle, and selling expectations.
• Support inventory decisions related to buy timing, replenishment, product lifecycle, liability, and service risk.
• Communicate business results, forecasts, risks, opportunities, and recommended actions to manager and cross-functional partners.
• Actively evaluate business results and recommend action steps to support achievement of plan.
• Participate in seasonal planning, in-season business reviews, and key cross-functional meetings as appropriate.

Skills and Competencies

• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills.
• Ability to connect inventory decisions to customer service, sales, margin, and inventory productivity.
• Clear understanding of financial and inventory measurements, including sales, gross margin, GMROI, inventory turn, weeks on hand, weeks of supply, fill rate, and service levels.
• Strong proficiency with Microsoft Excel required
• Experience with planning, ERP, and reporting tools such as SAP S/4
  
  HANA, SAP CAR, o9 Solutions, Oracle Retail, Power BI, or similar platforms preferred.
• Able to develop and maintain strong working relationships with peers and cross-functional teams.
• Strong listening, written, and verbal communication skills.
• Able to present business updates, risks, opportunities, and action plans clearly.
• Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities.
• Able to organize and prioritize workload to meet deadlines.
• Demonstrates proficiency in core responsibilities and routine planning tasks.
• Works independently on routine responsibilities and requires limited supervision.
• Contributes to team projects and collaborates effectively with peers

Education and Experience Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Finance, Merchandising, Analytics, or related field preferred; equivalent experience considered.
• 2–5 years of relevant professional experience in inventory planning, demand planning, retail/business analysis, supply chain, merchandising, or related field preferred .

Physical Requirements

• Ability to sit for long periods of time
• Rare lifting up to 35 pounds.

Associate Inventory Planner
- Lands' End School Outfitters