Bass Pro Shops · 2 weeks ago
Director, Merchandise Planning
Springfield, MO
Full-time
Onsite
Director/Executive
10+ years expBass Pro Shops is a leading retailer in outdoor recreation gear and apparel, and they are seeking a Director of Merchandise Planning. This role involves leading the planning, forecasting, and management of sales, margin, inventory, and receipts for both retail and direct business, ensuring alignment between financial and demand plans.
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Responsibilities
Align with SVP(s) to develop strategy and financial plans to achieve annual financial sales, gross margin and inventory plans to support the company’s budgeted sales, gross margin and turn goals
Aligns tops down financial plans/forecasts with bottoms up demand plans/forecasts
Lead the development of category and department plans and bottoms up demand plans to achieve or exceed financial goals
Ensure alignment between tops down financial plans and bottoms up demand forecasts
Manage open to buy
Provide guidance and insights for forecasting sales, gross margin, receipts and inventory
Recognizes trends or patterns and make recommendations for forecasts updates, as necessary
Lead team to provide accurate and thorough analysis of performance to be used to make informed decisions to drive profitable sales
Quantify in-season risks and opportunities and confidently make recommendations for action
Partner with the SVP to drive opportunities and request support as needed
Champion initiatives to create financial and demand planning best practices that provide efficient processes to effectively plan, forecast and recap financial performance
Align with Senior Leadership, Finance, Merchants and team to ensure company EBITDA goals are met or exceeded
Build a high performing planning team through developing, training, coaching and mentoring
Facilitate team environment between Merchant, Planning and Inventory Management organizations
All other duties as assigned
Qualification
Required
Bachelor's Degree in Supply Chain, Business, Finance or related field
10 years of experience in retail environment
Proficient PC skills, including MS Office Suite and advanced Excel
Understanding of retail math components
Aptitude to analyze data to identify trends, issues and opportunities
Demonstrate critical thinking and problem-solving skills
Effective communication skills at multiple levels within the organization including senior management
Ability to present business strategies and action plans to cross functional groups
Support an environment that fosters respect for the ideas of others as well as ongoing collaboration to execute business strategy
Ability to manage multiple projects, meet deadlines, and remain detailed oriented
Benefits
Enjoy discounts on retail merchandise, our restaurants, world-class resorts and conservation attractions!
Medical
Dental
Vision
Health Savings Account
Flexible Spending Account
Voluntary benefits
401k Retirement Savings
Paid holidays
Paid vacation
Paid sick time
Bass Pro Cares Fund
And more!
Company
Bass Pro Shops
Your Adventure Starts Here! Find gear for Fishing, Boating, Hunting, Camping, and much more at Bass Pro Shops. It is a sub-organization of Great American Outdoors Group.
10001+ employees
H1B Sponsorship
Bass Pro Shops has a track record of offering H1B sponsorships. Please note that this does not
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2025 (15)
2024 (9)
2023 (15)
2022 (14)
2021 (5)
2020 (3)
Funding
Current Stage
Late StageTotal Funding
unknown2015-02-10Series Unknown
Leadership Team
Gary Wissig
Sr. Director, Revenue & Business Intelligence
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