Merchandise Planner - Remote

Description

At Torrid we're committed to cultivating a welcoming, inclusive and diverse culture driven by a focus on open dialogue, empowerment, recruiting, training, development and retention. We believe inclusion of diverse backgrounds and perspectives is fundamental to our success...

The Merchandise Planner develops merchandise plans and targets for an assigned group of product categories to maximize sales, optimize inventory and increase margin through the analysis of historical sales trends, current in-season patterns and future forecasts.

What You?ll Do:
? Manage the development of annual, seasonal, monthly, and weekly merchandise plans for assigned product categories. Pre-season top-down/bottom-up level plans for sales, inventory, markdowns/sell out plans, style counts, productivity and margin in partnership with the Planning Director, Planners, and Merchants.
? Lead and execute season code Hindsight process inclusive of fiscal view and seasonal view as well as other product attributes.
? Monthly, manage and conduct in-season reforecast of category unit plans/dollar plans, focusing on future opportunities as well as minimizing sales/inventory risks. Partnering with Merchants to align on future direction.
? On weekly basis, initiates and oversees analysis of business trends, including but not limited to, category performance, channel selling, margin drivers, and seasonality.
? Partner with merchants to develop and propose business tactics in response to current business trends, advising them on open-to-buy, optimum unit purchasing, etc. Owns Markdown and Promotional strategy setting and execution to hit sales, margin, and inventory targets.
? Routinely presents recommendations and other analysis to senior leadership and executive management related to driving short and long-term business goals including hind-sights, color/pattern selling, etc.
? Collaborate with peers and share best-practice to ensure consistency in tools, reporting and communications.

What You?ll Need:
? 2+ years of experience in merchandise planning experience

What You'll Get:
? A culture where people are accepted and encouraged to be who they are.
? Competitive compensation, 401k with company matching contribution, plus potential to earn company performance-based bonuses.
? Comprehensive wellness package including, medical, dental, vision, and Flexible Spending Account
? Generous 50% employee discount and access to employee-only sales.
? Support the causes you?re passionate about. We pay you up to 32 hours annually for volunteering your time in the community.
? Child Care Discount at participating locations.
? Tuition reimbursement program
? Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Aimed at helping employees address a variety of personal and family issues including legal financial consultations, mental health services and more.
? Discounts on cell phones, and computer purchases, entertainment tickets and more.
? Pet insurance for your fur babies.
? Work and learn alongside industry-leading executives while making huge strides in impacting the lives of women.
? You?ll be challenged and grow. Opportunity for upward mobility is available at all levels of the organization.

Salary range $76,000 - $92,912 We are a proud Equal Opportunity Employer and will not discriminate based on race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, disability, protected veteran status or any other protected status. If you are unable or limited in your ability to use or access www.torridcareers.com you can request reasonable accommodations by sending an email to [email protected]. Only messages left for this purpose will be returned. Our company participates in E-Verify. If the links below do not work, please copy and paste the following URLs in a new browser window:

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