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Claire's · 1 month ago

Sr. Associate, Merchandise Planner (Hybrid)

Chicago, IL

Full-time

Hybrid

Mid, Senior Level

$82K/yr - $110K/yr

3+ years exp

Claire's is a retail company seeking a Sr. Associate, Merchandise Planner to serve as the business manager for specific product categories. This role involves creating sales and receipt plans, analyzing data to support forecasts, and collaborating with various teams to optimize inventory and sales performance.

E-CommerceFashionJewelryLifestyleRetail

Responsibilities

Create and maintain business plans on the category/department/division level by month in accordance with corporate goals

Create and manage OTB based on timely and accurate forecasts

Drive category performance across all key KPIs inclusive of sales, receipts, and gross margin

Present at monthly business meetings and provide detailed insights and strategic recommendations to upper management

Prepare, update, and distribute key daily/weekly reports

Review and analyze data to help inform recommendations and reforecasting

Analyze performance down to an item level on a weekly basis to optimize assortment, pricing strategies and inventory management

Prepare and analyze hindsight documents to measure past performance inform future season plans and buys

Support the merchandising team with pricing and promotions based on weekly analysis against plans and forecasts

Support merchandising team in pulling analysis to support key assortment and investment strategies

Collaborate and partner with Merchandising to formulate pre-season sales/GM/Inventory flow goals that tie to the topline benchmark metric and reflect learnings from hindsight process

Partner with Merchandising to build assortment strategies that tie to topline metrics

Support Merchants in presenting pre-season financials and strategies to upper management

Manage effective cross-functional relationships to drive business through recommendations on pricing/promotion and inventory allocation/management

Provide direct support to the Planning Manager and Merchandising team on all planning functions and initiatives

In conjunction with Manager, make recommendations for business adjustments based on analysis of current business; be involved with the decision-making process

Qualification

Merchandising experienceRetail planningAnalytical skillsMicrosoft OfficeLeadership skillsCommunication skillsOrganizational skillsProblem-solving skillsFlexibilitySelf-motivated