
Senior Merchandise Planner
Role: Senior Merchandise Planner
Brand: Vuori
Location: Carlsbad, USA
Summary: The Senior Merchandise Planner is responsible for crafting and managing the demand plan for the Vuori fleet in alignment with product strategies, channel sales plans, and retail expansion expectations.
Responsibilities:
- Craft the stores open-to-buy (OTB) plan, ensuring alignment with the channel financial plan to achieve sales, margin, and inventory turn expectations.
- Partner with the Director of Planning to ensure merchandising alignment and a collective inventory strategy Vuori’s Direct to Consumer businesses.
- Establish & lead the monthly forecast review and merchandise reorder process to optimize inventory turn & in-stocks.
- Ensure retail and inventory targets are driving supply planning and decision making across the business.
- Establish pre-season and hind-sighting analysis on seasons’ financial and assortment performance and collaborate with merchandising and channel leadership on future seasons’ inventory plans & strategies.
- Collaborate with the Sr. Directors of Merchandising and Stores in setting channel/stores goals for revenue, initial and maintained margins, inventory, and sku productivity in support of the overall channel and company goals.
- Be an efficient influencer who is intelligent with numbers, organized, proactive, and collaborative.