Lead Assortment Planner

Job Title: Lead Assortment Planner
Location: Beaverton, OR
Duration: 12 months
Hybrid: Mon – Thurs onsite, Fri remote

Job Description:

• General Information:
• Location and/or time zone and expected work schedule: WHQ, M-R onsite WFH Fri
• Any expected travel: no
• Expected contract length: 1 yr
• Team details & who they will work with: Work with the HM’s and work hand in hand with merchandising , sales planning, marketplace teams, client direct planning

Top must-have skills include the following:

• Self starter, speak up if needed, cross functional (have a voice at the table)
• Retail math

Nice to have skills:

• AI knowledge
• Power BI

Software/technical requirements:

• Excel
• Previous client/industry experience preference: Super useful, retail experience needed

Additional Skills

• Interviewers: 1 with each HM, possible final with HM’s manager
• # of Rounds: 1
• Duration of Interview: 30 min

Who We're Looking For

We are looking for a Lead Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom-up merchandise plans to ensure consumer demand is met and a healthy pull market is maintained. The success of our team relies on collaborative and detail-oriented assortment planners who manage style and/or franchise plans to optimize sales, margin and profitable sustainable growth across the marketplace. Our assortment planners step up to address difficult issues, operate effectively when the way forward isn't clear, develop innovative ideas and they win with consumers by understanding their business to drive success.

What You Will Work On:

If this is you, you'll develop a robust assortment planning framework that includes product depth, flow and SKU efficiency, whilst providing marketplace consumer insights to curate the optimal product line. In a typical day/week you will building bottom-up forecasts to inform pre-season decisions, weekly sales analysis to identify risk and opportunity, collaboration with your marketplace team and retail partners to manage performance and providing post-season assortment insights and recommendations to key stakeholders.

Who You will work with:

You will report to a NSW Planning Director and will be working closely with cross functional teams (Sales & Merchandising) as well as engaging marketplace planning teams in weekly and seasonal conversations. You'll also stay connected to other planners and succeed through your ability to collaborate and drive action and results both internally and externally.

What You Bring:

• 4 years retail planning experience, in a vertical retail or wholesale environment
• Merchandise planning experience is highly desirable
• Strong Excel skills are essential
• Comprehensive understanding of retail math required
• Strong influencing and stakeholder management experience
• Ability to work across a matrixed environment