Category Planning Manager

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Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, engineering, economics, operations management, or equivalent.
• 4+ years of experience in planning, finance, or supply chain analysis.
• Possess a clear understanding of financial measurements including sales, gross margin, return rate, months on hand, sell through, turn rate.
• Excellent analytical skills and the ability to translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations.
• Excellent computer skills, including advanced Excel (pivot tables, charts, logical functions).
• Strong critical thinking, data mining and problem-solving skills.
• Must be dependable, team player, organized, self-motivated and detail oriented.
• High energy and results oriented.
• Willingness and ability to take on wide array of ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests.
• Proven ability to prioritize and focus to deliver timely work.
• Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities.

Responsibilities:

• Develops and drives pre-season, item-level sales and inventory plans that align with historical performance, merchandising strategies and financial targets.
• Reforecast item level plans in season and perform ad hoc analysis to identify inventory risks or opportunities.
• Recap and analyze monthly actuals to plan and LY.
• Collaborate with sales team on pre-season forecast builds and order book analysis.
• Prepare the deck and present category strategies in OTB meetings.
• Partner with Product on the line creation and provide analytics.
• Build and execute style, color, size purchasing for categories.
• Develop pricing and markdown strategies to maximize sales and margin.
• Manage inventory availability across sales channels for their categories.
• Look for ways to continuously improve current processes, tools and meetings.
• Actively partner cross functionally to drive shared business goals and key outcomes.