We are looking for a Lead Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom-up merchandise plans to ensure consumer demand is met and a healthy pull market is maintained.
The success of our team relies on collaborative and detail-oriented assortment planners who manage style and/or franchise plans to optimize sales, margin and profitable sustainable growth across the marketplace.
Our assortment planners step up to address difficult issues, operate effectively when the way forward isn't clear, develop innovative ideas and they win with consumers by understanding their business to drive success.
What Will You Work On :
If this is you, you'll develop a robust assortment planning framework that includes product depth, flow and SKU efficiency, whilst providing marketplace consumer insights to curate the optimal product line. In a typical day/week you will building bottom-up forecasts to inform pre-season decisions, weekly sales analysis to identify risk and opportunity, collaboration with your marketplace team and retail partners to manage performance and providing post-season assortment insights and recommendations to key stakeholders.
Who Will You Work With:
You will report to a NSW Planning Director and will be working closely with cross functional teams (Sales & Merchandising) as well as engaging marketplace planning teams in weekly and seasonal conversations. You'll also stay connected to other planners and succeed through your ability to collaborate and drive action and results both internally and externally.
What You Bring:
4+ years retail planning experience, in a vertical retail or wholesale environment
Merchandise planning experience is highly desirable
Strong Excel skills are essential
Comprehensive understanding of retail math required
Strong influencing and stakeholder management experience
Ability to work across a matrixed environment
Desired Candidate Profile:
Minimum required years of experience: 4
Education requirements: No
Must have skills:
Self starter, speak up if needed, cross functional (have a voice at the table)
Retail math
Nice to have skills:
AI knowledge
Power BI
Software/technical requirements:
Excel
Previous industry experience preference: Super useful, retail experience needed What 2-3 traits does the successful person in the role have?
Numbers & Facts
Location
Beaverton, OR
Industry
Staffing/Employment Agencies
Company Size
100 to 499 employees
Year Founded
1990
Website
http://www.sunrisesys.com/
About Company
Sunrise Systems was founded in 1990 with a clear vision to deliver world-class staffing service solutions in all labor categories, including IT consulting and solutions; all with the commitment to provide service that exceeds expectations and become the most trusted name in the industry. More than two and a half decades later, we pride ourselves on being at the forefront of the staffing industry. Combining our deep industry expertise, insights, and global resources, we have partnered with our clients to connect them with top professionals across several different industries.
We provide cost-effective Managed Staffing Solutions, Information Technology and Information Technology Consulting Services to several Fortune 500 companies and U.S. Government agencies. We provide our clients with flexible engagement models and customized products that are budget and time specific. Understanding the challenges that every business faces, we offer our services either on-site at the clients' site or from one of our globally distributed technology centers. Our onshore and offshore development capabilities ensure that we excel at meeting customer requirements every single time.
Our collective business experience spans over two and a half decades and ranges from:
Business, management, and technical fields
Information technology consulting and software solutions.
Providing strategic support for the development and long-term growth of new business ventures across several industries including but not limited to; accounting, banking, finance, and recruitment.
Motivating technology staff and establishing partnerships with Fortune 500 companies
Sunrise Systems has a vast range of competence in:
Design, development, and support of cloud-based solutions from simple to highly complexed
Database administration of multi-platform applications, complex databases, and web-based environments that include all aspects of installation, planning, maintenance, and monitoring.
Data processing and data migration
Application re-engineering and platform migration
Working with the Information Systems and end-user communities at all levels to resolve issues and establish consensus.
Skills
Artificial Intelligence (AI)unmatched
Cross-Functionalunmatched
Customer/Client Researchunmatched
Demand Forecasting/Planningunmatched
Detail Orientedunmatched
Forecastingunmatched
Franchise Managementunmatched
Mathematicsunmatched
Merchandisingunmatched
Microsoft Excelunmatched
Performance Managementunmatched
Power BIunmatched
Problem Solving Skillsunmatched
Product Flowunmatched
Retailunmatched
Risk Analysisunmatched
Salesunmatched
Sales Analysisunmatched
Stock Keeping Unit (SKU)unmatched
Team Playerunmatched
Wholesale Industryunmatched
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