Sr Inventory Planner, Furniture - Rejuvenation

Responsibilities

• Represent your category in weekly cross-functional business reviews, communicating variances to the sales and inventory plan that impact your partners
• Participate in initial forecasts for new product development to guide sourcing strategies
• Develop 3-year plans with your merchant partners to roadmap growth opportunities
• Build quarterly Investment Review plans for the entire assortment: Including carryover, newness and exits
• Forecast sales, margin and inventory investments
• Lead the monthly Open-to-Buy meeting for your category: Align with your merchant on the sales and margin forecast by category by month
• Communicate inventory position in detail (full price, promo, clearance) and pricing recommendations
• Request additional receipts or receipt shifts to keep inventory in alignment with the sales plan
• Build monthly “Push-Chase-Cancel” requests to optimize open inventory receipt dollars by month
• Build monthly reorder recommendations in-line with approved OTB receipts and roll-up to senior management for approval
• Run ad-hoc reporting for partners and senior management as needed
• Participate in regular process improvement discussions to facilitate continued company growth

Requirements

• A minimum of 3 years prior experience in inventory planning and management
• A minimum of 3 years of people management experience, preferably multiple direct reports
• Prior experience in retail
• Proficient with the Microsoft Office suite of products with excellent proficiency in using MS Excel
• High level of retail math acumen, including elements of markup, margin planning, open to buy, and inventory productivity measures
• Proven analytical, business planning skills
• Can make timely decisions, anticipate problems and able to provide creative solutions
• Well-organized, detail oriented
• Can effectively deal with ambiguity and a changing environment

Criteria

• Ability to perform work onsite in the Portland office full-time pending state, local, and Company return-to-work guidance during and after the COVID-19 pandemic.