Merchandise Planning Associate

Position Snapshot

Gorilla Commerce is seeking a Merchandise Planner who can thrive in a fast-paced environment while managing multiple priorities. In this role, you will develop financial plans by forecasting revenue, demand units, pricing, advertising, and other key metrics to maximize margins. You’ll do this by analyzing year-to-date and historical trends in key business performance metrics to predict future performance.

To support the organization’s growth, you will identify opportunities, such as adding new SKUs to current product listings or developing entirely new products. You will work cross-functionally with all teams in the organization to execute these priorities.

This role is crucial for communicating our product-level strategic business outlook. You will be responsible for generating the month-end presentation to the CEO and cross-functional leads. To accomplish this, you’ll become an expert in our planning and analytics system (Toolio), enabling you to pull and analyze large datasets. You will also take a leading role in managing our planning system and providing guidance to our offshore team.

As the team grows and evolves, you will help build tools, dashboards, reports, process documentation, and presentations. These resources will be used by the team and shared company-wide to ensure alignment and educate cross-functional partners. You will also support the team in developing new functionalities, onboarding new technology, and driving the organization’s success by setting financial targets for new business opportunities.

This is a highly visible role within Gorilla Commerce and among our external partners and vendors—one where you can take an entrepreneurial approach.

We’re a leading e-commerce company focused on creating high-quality, affordable products that make everyday life easier.

Headquartered in Norwalk, CT, Gorilla Commerce is a Top 10 Amazon U.S. seller with rapid growth and expanding into an omnichannel presence.

Known for our flagship brand, Gorilla Grip, we combine creativity with data-driven insights to deliver obsession-worthy products.

Fast-paced, collaborative, and customer-focused environment where innovation and growth thrive.

We’re a rapidly growing e-commerce company with ambitious plans to expand our reach and evolve into a true omnichannel business.

• Forecasting and Planning:
  • Build and reforecast product financial models at the SKU level, incorporating current market conditions and historical sales performance to develop strategic financial targets, support supply planning, and aid in sales execution in the marketplace.
  • Create financial plans for new business ventures (e.g., new marketplaces, product listings, SKUs) by leveraging multiple data sources to establish a comprehensive growth strategy.
• Product Assortment Optimization:
  By analyzing historical business metrics, you will ensure that product listings meet required performance standards and provide recommendations for expanding successful products or exiting underperforming ones (e.g., entire product listings or specific SKUs).
• Market Research and Analysis:
  • Conduct research on the velocity of sales, seasonality curves, and SKU selling performance to improve our forecast accuracy to reduce risk of an overstock situation.
  • Utilize 3rd party tools to gather and analyze relevant data to enable us to enter new product categories or marketplaces.
  • People Management:
    Lead a team of international members to successfully evolve processes and stay ahead in an ever-changing, dynamic selling ecosystem.
• Reporting/Data:
  • Lead the development of month-end reporting for large cross-functional meeting, presenting to the CEO and function leads (monthly).
  • Take a leading role in producing reports for ad-hoc requests.
  • Support the team in creating performance reports that capture monthly, weekly, and daily metrics.
  • Collaborate with FP&A and Strategy teams to deliver financial insights.
  • Provide analytical support to cross-functional teams on high-priority projects.
• Business Processes:
  • Enable scalability for future growth by improving…