Bloomingdale's Associate Planner - Luggage

About the Role

Through our carefully curated selection of merchandise, we guide and inspire our customers to make style a creative source of energy in their lives. To help us consistently meet our customer demands, our Planning team uses analytics to develop localized strategies that maximize sales. The Associate Planner partners closely with the Director of Planning to develop location-specific financial plans and recommend strategies for core vendor plans for an assigned area of business.

Responsibilities

• Manage a total business throughout the season, including evaluating and reacting to sales activity and trends, managing location inventory levels and replenishment, and driving sales, margin, and turn across stores and online channels.
• Ensure that the right products are available in the right place at the right time, consistently meeting our customers' expectations while achieving sales and profitability for your assigned business.
• Ensure that the financial strategy supports national and localized assortments by store and channel with appropriate receipt and inventory levels.
• Provide independent and strategic recommendations to drive business outcomes.
• Execute pre-season financial planning activities for a specific business unit, including creation of all department and vendor plans, VMT's, and daily sales and forecast plans.
• Provide the Buyer with analytics and recommendations to support assortment decisions by channel and location.
• Leverage analytics to guide merchants on strategies to drive opportunities and minimize risks for vendors.
• Attend vendor meetings that relate to the planning function in order to negotiate location/strategy plans; advocate for location distribution of brands, items, and expanded replenishment offering.
• Perform quarterly hindsight analysis to inform future strategy.
• Create pre-season daily sales plan by department and channel based on marketing calendar, holiday shifts, markdown, and promotion cadence.
• Forecast daily sales and stocks by channel and location to support the ROF process.
• Allocate product orders to maximize business by channel and location.
• Determine fixture plans and capacities by door and brand, manage inventory levels to fulfill customer needs, and balance fixture needs with business needs.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's Degree
• 2-3 years of relevant analytical experience
• Excellent written and verbal communication skills
• Ability to read, write, and interpret documents such as reports and procedure manuals
• Minimum of average mathematical skills, including the ability to compute rates, ratios, and percentages

Skills

• Highly analytical, strategic, and able to identify data trends and present risks and opportunities
• Ability to manage workflow independently and effectively with minimal direction
• Demonstrated ability to balance multiple projects and be flexible in response to changing priorities
• Highly self-motivated with a proactive approach to work responsibilities
• Strong team player who leverages others to make better decisions
• Strong PC skills, particularly Excel (Vlookups, pivot tables, sumifs)
• Ability to influence and collaborate effectively with cross-functional partners

This role involves performing essential job functions such as communication, collaboration, and use of office and computer systems. Responsibilities include the ability to access and review written and electronic information, and to move within the work environment and interact with workplace materials as needed to carry out job responsibilities.