Senior Merchandise Planner – NA Wholesale

Senior Merchandise Planner

The Senior Merchandise Planner owns SKU- and account-level forecasting across wholesale accounts within the North America channel, translating channel targets into account-level plans. You run the monthly forecast process for these accounts, build the supporting analysis, and work with cross-functional partners to drive retailer in-stock performance. Success requires strong analytical skills, data-driven storytelling, and effective collaboration across Sales, Supply Chain, Brand, Demand Planning, and Finance.

Account Planning & Management

• Build bottom-up retail and wholesale plans by account, category, and SKU, and support the channel's top-down plan.
• Partner with Sales and Brand to translate assortment direction into SKU-level plans.
• Maintain account-level OTB and flag risks and opportunities to the planning lead.
• Monitor weekly sell-out and stock-outs and coordinate corrective actions with account merchants.

Forecasting

• Prepare and maintain monthly forecasts, identifying risks and opportunities and recommending actions to chase demand or mitigate risk.
• Contribute to forecast consensus with Demand Planning and flag exceptional demand.
• Partner with Sales and Finance on promo, markdown, and RTV forecasts.

Cross-functional Collaboration

• Track new product launch POs with Supply Chain and escalate delivery risks.
• Provide account-level inputs into monthly and annual sales budgets.
• Support Sales and Brand on account and channel strategies.

Analytics

• Use advanced Excel and enterprise planning tools (Anaplan) to build reporting and analysis.
• Improve forecast accuracy, data quality, and scenario modeling.
• Share best practices with the merchandise planning team.

Requirements

• 5+years of merchandise planning or wholesale planning experience.
• BA/BS in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, Economics, or a related quantitative field.
• Strong proficiency in Excel (pivot tables, Power Query, advanced functions); experience with an enterprise planning platform, Anaplan a plus.
• Analytical problem-solving, scenario modeling, and data storytelling.
• Negotiation and influencing skills with internal partners and account contacts.
• Ability to thrive in a fast-paced, rapidly changing environment and manage multiple priorities against tight deadlines.
• Clear written and verbal communication, strong organizational discipline, high attention to detail, and a growth mindset oriented toward process improvement.