Note: The job is a remote job and is open to candidates in USA. The Children's Place is a retail company seeking an Amazon Planner responsible for financial management of assigned areas, including financial and merchandise planning. The role involves forecasting sales, markdowns, and inventory levels, while identifying risks and developing action plans to mitigate them.
Responsibilities
- Create monthly financial plans at division and category level for fiscal time periods
- Reforecast sales, gross margin, and inventory for fiscal time periods
- Recap end of season performance at division, category, season, and style levels for merchandise buy period
- Conduct basic stock replenishment (order quantity by style, color, and size)
- Key item planning for all basic styles (sales, margin, inventory)
- Conduct daily, monthly, quarterly, and seasonal sales reporting
- Manage inventory flow on fashion receipts
- Develop size curve and pre-pack definitions
- Partner with merchant to support the buy process
Skills
- Bachelor's degree
- 3+ years of experience in retail planning and analysis
- Proven track record of financially astute business management
- Expertise in retail math with strong analytical skills/ learning agility
- Strong problem solving and decision making skills
- Ability to identify and clearly communicate business opportunities and risks/ analytical and data reasoning
- Good organization and workload prioritization skills/ detail-orientation and accuracy
- Proficient in planning systems and Microsoft Office
- Strong team player/relationship-building
- Proven process of improvement and problem solving
Benefits
- Bonus eligible (depending on role)
- Paid Time Off
- Employee Discount
- 401(k) and company match
- Wellness Reimbursement
- Adoption Assistance
- Free backup care (for kids, pets & the elderly)
- Choice of health insurance plans
- Company-paid life/AD&D
- Short and long term disability
- A variety of voluntary benefits
- An employee assistance program
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