Associate Planner

Overview

At PGA TOUR Superstore, we’re always looking for enthusiastic, self‑motivated, flexible individuals who will share a passion for helping transform our business. As one of the fastest growing specialty retailers, we’re dedicated to hiring selfless team players from different backgrounds to influence the growth of our organization. Part of the Arthur M. Blank Family of Businesses, PGA TOUR Superstore continuously strives to create a family culture for our Associates – driven by our vision to inspire people through golf and tennis.

The Associate Planner supports the development, maintenance, and execution of merchandise financial plans for assigned areas of business at the Department, Class, and Merchandise Category levels. This planning‑forward role partners closely with Merchandising, Merchant teams, Allocation/Replenishment, Finance, Store Operations, Marketing, Supply Chain, and vendor partners to align sales, margin, receipts, inventory, turn, and profitability plans with customer and assortment strategies. The Associate Planner helps translate Associate Merchant and category strategies into financial, inventory, and receipt plans;

reconciles bottom‑up inputs with top‑down targets; maintains Open‑to‑Buy tools; supports assortment breadth and depth analysis; prepares business review materials; tracks in‑season KPIs; and identifies reforecast, markdown, reorder, and inventory productivity opportunities.

• Merchandise Financial Planning & Open‑to‑Buy Support

  Support the development, maintenance, and management of merchandise financial plans for assigned areas of business at the Department, Class, and Merchandise Category levels. Partner with Associate Merchants and Merchant leaders to translate assortment and category strategies into sales, margin, receipt, inventory, turn, and profitability plans. Reconcile bottom‑up planning inputs with top‑down financial targets, validating alignment across channel, department, class, and merchandise category views.
  
  Maintain Open‑to‑Buy for sales, margin, receipt flow, inventory investment, weeks of supply, and inventory turn by channel and merchandise hierarchy.

• Assortment Financial Planning, Line Review Support & Category Alignment

  Compare assortment breadth, depth, price architecture, and inventory investment against merchandise financial half‑year plans during conceptual reviews, line reviews, and investment discussions. Provide planning insights to Associate Merchants by identifying gaps between assortment strategy, historical performance, customer demand, receipt flow, and financial plan expectations. Support product lifecycle planning decisions including newness, carryover, reorder, cancellation, promotional, markdown, and exit strategies to maximize sales, margin, turn, and category productivity.

• Open‑to‑Buy Cadence, Forecasting & Business Review Reporting

  Prepare Open‑to‑Buy cadence materials, including plan inputs, forecast updates, variance analysis, KPI summaries, risks, opportunities, and recommended planning actions. Build and maintain Monthly Business Review reporting packages that summarize sales, margin, inventory, receipts, sell‑through, turn, markdown, stock‑to‑sales, and profitability performance. Collaborate with Merchandising, Associate Merchants, Finance, Allocation/Replenishment, Store Operations, Merch Execution, Supply Chain, Marketing, and vendor partners to align financial plans with assortment, inventory, and execution needs.

• In‑Season KPI Management, Reforecasting & Profitability

  Monitor in‑season KPI performance including sales, gross margin, maintained margin, sell‑through, weeks of supply, inventory turn, receipt flow, stock‑to‑sales, markdown rate, and profitability by channel and merchandise hierarchy. Identify and communicate reforecast, markdown, reorder, cancellation, receipt shift, and inventory balancing opportunities based on performance trends, financial variance, and risk/opportunity analysis. Maintain markdown and clearance tracking to support aged inventory reduction, margin protection, sell‑through improvement, inventory productivity, and overall profitability goals.

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