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The Guitar Center Company · 1 day ago

Merchandise Planner, Nylon/Folk

Westlake Village, CA

Full-time

Onsite

Mid, Senior Level

$75K/yr - $105K/yr

4+ years exp

The Guitar Center Company is the world's largest multichannel musical instrument retailer, and they are seeking a Merchandise Planner to lead the financial and inventory strategy for a category. The role involves collaborating with category managers to drive sales, margin, and inventory performance while managing an inventory analyst and developing future leaders.

Retail

Hiring Manager

Kevin Theiss

Responsibilities

Reviews item level forecasts and order proposals to drive sales and GMROI

Control purchase order activity to maximize sales and stay on budget

Collaborate with merchants to drive key market share events and promotions across channels with accurate sales and supply forecasts

Provides roll up of forecasts and purchases to contribute to in season planning process and the open to buy

Creates Omni channel strategy to drive sales, margin and turn for a complex retailer with stores, multiple websites and call centers for subcategories and key items

Maintains the planning system with accurate parameters to improve forecast accuracy, receipt flow and performance of algorithms

Manages and develops Inventory Analyst to resolve purchase order dates, shortages, overages and problem shipment resolution and e-commerce backorders. Prepares them for future career at GC

Supports Director of planning in building assortment parameters for a subcategory to balance customer needs by segment, price point and ensuring powerful presentations

Additional duties as assigned