Assortment Planner – Designer Women's Ready-to-Wear - Seattle, WA (Hybrid)

About the role

Our Assortment Planners and Buyers are jointly accountable to meet and exceed departmental sales, margin and turn targets. Assortment Planners create actionable, customer-centric supplier plans through a detailed understanding of product and customer needs. They partner with the Buyer to achieve financial objectives. They collaborate with cross-functional partners to drive departmental strategies.

Responsibilities

• Reconcile merchandise financial, supplier and assortment plans ensuring it captures key product and customer strategies and are achievable.
• Direct the analysis and use of information to improve the depth and precision of the buy.
• Manage and direct inventory management in season; ensuring effective decision making around analysis, markdowns, claims, re-orders, etc.
• Partner with the buyer and other cross-functional partners on business reviews, open-to-buy management and plan revisions to achieve financial goals and strategic objectives.
• Teach, coach and motivate direct reports to drive in-season performance management and become superior partners in planning assortments and quantifying the buy.

Requirements

• 4+ years of experience as a multichannel/omni-channel retail merchandise Planner or equivalent role.
• Demonstrated understanding of retail and the service environment of Nordstrom.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite required.
• Experience managing and supporting a high sales volume category (high SKU count, heavy seasonality, high revenue ($20M+)) (preferred).
• Experience in a relevant merchandise category (preferred).
• Strong analytical/math skills.
• Strong time management skills, attention to detail, problem-solving, interpersonal and organizational skills – communication between functional groups is critical.
• Excellent written/verbal communication and presentation skills.

Qualifications

• Education: Bachelor's degree preferred.

Skills

• Strategic thinking.
• Customer-centric approach.
• Financial acumen.
• Inventory management.
• Collaborative problem-solving.
• Team leadership.

Benefits

Our employees are our most important asset and that’s reflected in our benefits. Nordstrom is proud to offer a variety of benefits to support employees and their families, including:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement
• Paid Time Off
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and Employee Assistance Program (EAP)

Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment. Learn more in the Nordstrom Benefits Overview by copying and pasting the following URL into your browser: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf.

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