Senior Merchandise Planner

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Job Title: Senior Merchandise Planner, UGG

Reports to: Sr. Manager, Merchandise Planning - UGG

Location: United States (Remote)

Interested applicants must reside in one of the following approved states:
Arizona, California, Colorado, Indiana, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Texas, Utah, Washington.

As the Senior Merchandise Planner for UGG Full Price, you’ll play a pivotal role in driving sales, profitability, and inventory turn by developing and executing financial channel, class, and style plans. You’ll collaborate across teams to ensure alignment between top-down and bottom-up planning, influence assortment strategies, and guide the execution of buy plans. Your expertise will help shape both pre-season and in-season strategies, ensuring the UGG Full Price channel thrives in a dynamic retail environment.

• Oversee and collaborate on building bottom-up style-color level sales and buy plans, ensuring alignment with top-down strategies
• Present in Investment Reviews and secure leadership signoff for key initiatives
• Integrate promotional and incentive activities into plans based on seasonal calendars and product strategies
• Partner with Supply Planning, Merchants, Site Producers, and Field teams to ensure demand needs and Go-to-Market plans align with financial goals
• Attend Buy Reviews and influence style selection for UGG Merchandise Planning
• Own overall phasing of plans, including building weekly/daily files and partnering with Allocation for store tiering
• Lead bottom-up reforecasting and in-season inventory management, reacting to trends and optimizing inventory positions
• Manage promotional activity to meet sales, margin, and inventory targets
• Collaborate with Demand Planning and Allocation to ensure successful execution of inventory changes and alignment with Open-to-Buy needs
• Drive actionable conversations around pricing and support sales and inventory goals
• Support process and systems transitions, champion continuous improvement, and pioneer best practices
• Develop and implement inventory management strategies for a diverse product range
• Track and improve forecast accuracy, sharing insights with leadership and cross-functional teams
• Train and develop team members, fostering an innovative and results-oriented environment
• Build and maintain effective relationships with cross-functional partners, guiding the team through business challenges and prioritizing key deliverables

• Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent work experience
• 4-5+ years of merchandise planning, inventory management, buying, or finance in a retail environment
• 1-2+ years of supervisory experience, including training, coaching, and career development
• Experience in inventory management or financial forecasting is a plus
• eCommerce and Brick & Mortar experience preferred
• Team player who leads through ambiguity and inspires others to achieve their best
• Strong at training and developing others, with a continuous learning mindset
• Positive, responsible, and proactive approach; comfortable diving into details
• Able to balance big-picture thinking with attention to detail
• Skilled at reacting to trends in a fast-paced business
• Proven track record of analyzing and delivering financial results
• Effective partner and influencer, highly collaborative and flexible
• Strong statistical analysis, communication, and problem-solving skills
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across teams
• Skilled at translating data into actionable insights to drive results
• Action-oriented, forward-looking, and systems savvy (Advanced Excel; Oracle and Tableau preferred)
• Change management skills and ability to manage ambiguity

• Competitive Pay and Bonuses – We’ve created a variety of competitive…