Senior Assortment Planner: Optimize Space & Sales

Description

Your Role:

The Sr. Assortment Planner generates and analyzes statistical data on a multi-million-dollar category with a focus on assortment and space optimization. Responsibilities include revise tier/segment targets for a merchandise area in support of the critical business initiatives and budget objectives, develop a financial view of recommended style and choice count by tier, classification and attribute, and utilizes space productivity measurements to drive assortment decisions.

Reports to AVP, Merchandise Planning & Allocation.

Your Impact:

• Report and analyze current tier performance on a floor set, monthly and seasonal basis. Review for opportunities based upon assortment, promotional or launch cadence.
• Create and maintain tier targets in sales dollars, units and margin at a category level in accordance with each buy milestone.
• Create a financial view of assortment productivity by tier with recommended style and choice counts.
• Partner with space planning on productivity benchmarks and association with assortment.
• Partner with merchants to align financial recommendation with visual impression.
• Partner with merchandise planning to align chain financial and CC count with tier financials and CC count.
• Develop and maintain financial benchmarks of style/choice productivity by category and class.
• Analyze store tier information, making recommendations by store based on volume and space, as well as maintain store lists reflecting store tier changes.
• Review productivity by fixture and cabinet at the store / store tier level and make recommendations in alignment with capacity requirements.
• Analyze choice productivity and target weeks of supply to establish choice targets that optimize inventory productivity and sell-through.
• Evaluate fashion versus basic productivity by tier and provide merchants with guidance on fashion refresh rates to optimize inventory and minimize markdowns.
• Analyze store and sub-brand productivity to recommend the optimal number of assortment groups, then leverage store-level data to assign localized assortment groups and tier assortments based on customer preferences and store productivity.
• Champion change, taking risks as needed and demonstrating flexibility

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