Merchandise Planner - CK Retail

Job title: Merchandise Planner - CK Retail

About the Role The Planner is responsible for developing, executing and communicating strategic merchandise financial plans for Calvin Klein Omni-Channel and driving the business to meet the division’s financial, merchandising and marketing objectives.

What You'll Do

• Develop, execute, and communicate strategic merchandise financial plans that support the company’s financial, product, and marketing objectives.
• Strategically drive the business to maximize sales and margin, optimize inventory, and communicate opportunities and risks to key business partners including merchandising, finance, marketing, visual, and brand leaders.
• Collaborate with merchandising to ensure financial objectives align with product opportunities; guide the merchandising team using historical data and current trends to capitalize on opportunities and identify risks.
• Build and maintain a strategic promotional calendar, in partnership with merchandising and marketing.
• Provide weekly forecasts detailing category opportunities and risks, recommending markdowns, and reflowing inventory as needed.
• Lead and direct the monthly forecast meetings with divisional leadership and finance; manage the Open to Buy process and develop a 90-day forecast for sales, margin, and inventory.
• Develop analytics to support business approach including source, delivery, and season forecasts; pre-meet with divisional leadership to gain consensus prior to monthly strategic meetings.
• Lead the pre-season planning process: review historical performance, create department/category/item plans, provide receipt plans, margin/IMU goals, and flow strategies to merchants to drive assortment execution; identify risks and opportunities and gain consensus on assortment and plans from senior management.
• Identify risks and opportunities relative to product, flow, and presentation; lead and facilitate buy finalization meetings; lock plans seasonally and reflect reforecasting in new assortments.
• Collaborate with cross-functional teams (merchandising, visual, marketing, finance) to ensure execution of strategies and reconciliation of receipts.

What We're Looking For

• Experience: Minimum 2-3 years merchandise planning experience; 5+ years total work experience. Demonstrated experience presenting and recommending strategies and building a business case; strategic forecasting for a multidimensional business; ability to assume additional accountability; influencing and negotiating at various levels.
• Education: 4-year degree; advanced degree a plus.
• Skills: Well-developed written and verbal communication skills; ability to present complex material clearly; planning and allocation systems experience; analytical/math skills; project management; strategic forecasting & financial planning; proficiency with Microsoft Windows applications.

Compensation & Benefits

• Pay Range: $82,500 - $117,100 USD per year.
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