Associate Merchandise Planner - buy buy Baby

Associate Merchandise Planner

The Associate Merchandise Planner for Buy Buy Baby creates and manages bottom-up item sales and inventory plans for assigned departments. The Associate Merchandise Planner will work with the Merchandise Planner to reconcile these item plans to the overall department financial goals.

Responsibilities

• Create and manage sales and inventory targets for identified core programs, ensuring consistent stock levels.
• Partner with Buyer and Merchandise Planner to identify high volume key items for potential re-orders.
• Partner with allocation team to maximize store level inventory balance on all core programs.
• Partner with Buyer and Planner to create sales targets on promotional merchandise, while identifying risk to the overall department sales plan.
• Manage and review monthly assortment plans to ensure SKU rationality.
• Create and manage sales, inventory, and profit targets for assigned cross category product attributes.
• Partner with IT team to create better and more efficient reporting based on the needs of the merchandising team.
• Run and analyze ad hoc reports in order to react to current business trends as well as anticipate future business trends.
• Demonstrate a commitment to The Brand House Collective values.

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