Merchandise Planner, Strategic Channels

This is a strategic merchandise planning role focused on optimizing inventory investment and financial performance across collaborations and emerging growth channels. You’ll combine forecasting, retail analytics, inventory management, and pricing strategy to drive sales, margin, turns, and product availability.

About the role

A major part of the role involves supporting strategic channels such as Amazon, from assortment and launch readiness through replenishment and promotional execution. You’ll work closely with Merchandising, E-commerce, Marketing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Distribution, and external channel partners. The position offers meaningful ownership of open-to-buy, style-level planning, demand forecasts, and in-season optimization. You’ll use data to identify risks and opportunities, translate insights into actions, and influence decisions across multiple levels of the organization. It’s an ideal opportunity for an analytical, detail-oriented planner who thrives in a collaborative, fast-paced, and growth-oriented retail environment.

Responsibilities

• Own division-, department-, class-, and style-level sales, margin, inventory, receipt, and demand plans for the collaborations business, aligning plans with brand strategy, launch calendars, and financial objectives.
• Manage open-to-buy, sales forecasting, and inventory forecasting while identifying business risks and opportunities and developing actions to achieve or exceed financial targets.
• Maintain appropriate in-stock levels and optimize inventory across collaboration categories, channels, and product launches to maximize availability and inventory productivity.
• Reconcile bottom-up style-level plans against department and business targets, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities and recommending corrective actions.
• Lead weekly, monthly, quarterly, and seasonal business recaps, using performance trends to inform financial, inventory, assortment, and product-flow decisions.
• Recommend and execute pricing, markdown, reorder, cancellation, and inventory-transfer strategies in alignment with financial objectives and promotional plans.
• Work closely with Merchandising and other stakeholders to adjust forecasts, inventory investments, and strategies as business conditions evolve.
• Provide long-range and seasonal item-level forecasts aligned with production calendars to support timely product ordering, production, and collaboration launches.
• Support planning and execution for Amazon and other growth channels, including channel-level sales forecasts, inventory plans, assortment, product availability, launch readiness, and replenishment recommendations.
• Monitor sales, inventory, in-stock levels, pricing, promotions, and profitability across strategic channels, providing actionable analysis and recommendations.
• Partner with E-commerce, Marketing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, Distribution Center Operations, Merchandising, and external channel partners to ensure accurate execution of product, inventory, and promotional plans.
• Help build scalable reporting, planning processes, and performance-management routines for Amazon and future strategic channels.

Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.
• At least 2 years of merchandise or retail planning experience, preferably within a direct-to-consumer environment.
• Experience with Amazon and/or wholesale channels is preferred.
• Excellent analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills, including strong proficiency in retail mathematics and the ability to interpret financial and sales data.
• Demonstrated ability to use merchandise forecasting, financial planning, and data analytics to drive measurable business results.
• Ability to translate sales and financial information into decisions that improve profitability, inventory productivity, and product availability.
• Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build partnerships and influence stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.
• Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational and time-management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.
• Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing needs, make sound decisions, and influence outcomes in a fast-paced environment.
• Advanced analytical application skills, particularly Excel, with proficiency in productivity tools such as PowerPoint and Word and a willingness to learn new systems.
• Comfortable handling multiple projects and tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy, accountability, and attention to detail.

Benefits

• Annual base salary of $68,000-$78,000, depending on qualifications and experience.
• Fully remote work environment within the United States.
• Opportunity to directly influence merchandise investment, inventory productivity, sales, margin, and growth-channel performance.
• Collaborate with teams across Merchandising, E-commerce, Marketing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Distribution.
• Exposure to broad merchandise planning disciplines, strategic channels, analytical tools, and evolving retail processes.
• Join a collaborative, results-oriented culture that values innovation, ownership, customer focus, and continuous improvement.