Merchandise Planner 3

Kforce has a client located in Beaverton, Oregon who is looking for a Merchandise Planner 3. In this role, you'll establish clear stock and sales plans that tell a story for the season and collaborate with merchandising and business units to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities. You'll recap and analyze the business against the financial plan and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a weekly/monthly/quarterly basis.

Summary: This role will include presenting financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings. You'll proactively report on the health of the business and facilitate smart business decisions, communicate financial results, forecasts, and action plans to managers and cross-functional team members on a weekly basis. You'll collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge. In addition, you'll participate in a team structure that facilitates and maximizes individual and team performance, supporting and fostering an open and inclusive environment that embraces diversity, encourages accountability, and drives toward results.

Key Accountabilities:

• Support product forecasting & pricing processes by managing reporting tools, analyzing data, & providing actionable insights
• Construct and maintain reporting tools for use across the planning team
• Manage weekly markdown process across portfolio, in system and alignment with stakeholders
• Monitor price positioning across the marketplace and across the product portfolio, taking actions to adjust in accordance with overall pricing strategy
• Support monthly and seasonal inventory management activities
• Actively manage product lifecycles across seasons through close-out process and aging inventory