Inventory Planner

The Inventory Planner role is responsible for managing inventory across the supply chain to maximize sales and profit. This person is a member of one of our departmental planning teams, which works in close collaboration with purchasing across all product categories. Primary day-to-day responsibilities include: managing open-to-buy, maintaining stock levels in the warehouse and stores, allocating product to warehouse and stores, managing promotional inventory, forecasting and financial planning, and general category/item analysis.

This person will be a strong partner with Purchasing, Strategy, Logistics, Sales and Merchandising, and Marketing to help move the business forward. This person must be very strong analytically, have inventory management experience, and be a strategic thinker. This position reports to the Manager, Inventory Planning.

• Review purchasing quantity decisions, distributions and allocations, replenishment, and reporting and analysis.
• Assist in reviewing department sales, profit, and inventory forecasting in collaboration with purchasing and logistics.
• Review regular projections/analysis with cross functional purchasing team.
• Advise on optimal pricing decisions to support purchasing, distribution and selling strategies.
• Manage inventory at a specific and tactical level for owned department.
• Manage allocation of products to stores to maximize sales and profit.
• Work with manager to maintain department financial forecasts in conjunction with the open to buy.
• Conduct ad hoc analysis to understand business opportunities.
• Analyze and identify opportunities to improve forecasting, purchasing and allocation methods.
• Partner with planning, purchasing, and IT to develop and enhance tools and processes.
• Respond to store comments and questions and use feedback constructively to improve practices.
• Present analytics and reports to various stakeholders to identify and capture business opportunities.
• Be a strong partner to Store Operators, Sales & Merchandising, Suppliers and Distribution Centers; communicate clearly and effectively to inform various stakeholders of status and future changes.
• Visit stores and warehouses as necessary to maintain strong communication and stay on top of opportunities.

• Base Salary Range: $75,000 - $85,000 Annually
• Annual Bonus Program
• Equity
• 401(k) Profit Sharing
• Final compensation will be determined based upon experience and skills and may vary based on location.

• Bachelor's Degree.
• Minimum of 2+ years of relevant experience in areas including but not limited to the following:
  Merchandise Planning, Demand Forecasting, Inventory Allocation, Data Analytics.
• Previous experience in retail merchandising and financial planning preferred.
• Strong analytical skills with attention to detail able to analyze and identify insights from large amounts of data.
• Creative and strategic thinker that is always pushing status quo in an effort to improve.
• Excellent logical thinking and problem-solving skills; can easily diagnose and solve an ambiguous situation or problem.
• Able to build constructive and effective relations ships with a broad, diverse group of business partners.
• Strong understanding of general business financial metrics as well as retail specific metrics and math (e.g., discounts, margin).
• Strong communication skills, customer service, organization and attention to detail.
• Expert knowledge and use of Excel and BI platforms; proficient in other MS Office applications.
• Possesses the "roll-up-your sleeves" attitude and strong personal ownership of work needed to be successful in a flat, entrepreneurial organization.
• Able to write and present information effectively.

Inventory Planner
• Emeryville, CA, United States