Merchandise Planner, Strategic Channels

This position is listed on behalf of a partner company, who manages all applications and next steps. Our partner is looking for a Merchandise Planner, Strategic Channels based in United States.

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. 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.

Accountabilities:: Merchandise planning: 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.

Open-to-buy and forecasting: Manage open-to-buy, sales forecasting, and inventory forecasting while identifying business risks and opportunities and developing actions to achieve or exceed financial targets.

Inventory optimization: Maintain appropriate in-stock levels and optimize inventory across collaboration categories, channels, and product launches to maximize availability and inventory productivity.

Financial reconciliation: Reconcile bottom-up style-level plans against department and business targets, identifying gaps, risks, and opportunities and recommending corrective actions.

Business analysis: Lead weekly, monthly, quarterly, and seasonal business recaps, using performance trends to inform financial, inventory, assortment, and product-flow decisions.

In-season optimization: Recommend and execute pricing, markdown, reorder, cancellation, and inventory-transfer strategies in alignment with financial objectives and promotional plans.

Merchandising partnership: Work closely with Merchandising and other stakeholders to adjust forecasts, inventory investments, and strategies as business conditions evolve.

Sourcing collaboration: Provide long-range and seasonal item-level forecasts aligned with production calendars to support timely product ordering, production, and collaboration launches.

Strategic channels: 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.

Channel performance: Monitor sales, inventory, in-stock levels, pricing, promotions, and profitability across strategic channels, providing actionable analysis and recommendations.

Cross-functional coordination: 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.

Process improvement: Help build scalable reporting, planning processes, and performance-management routines for Amazon and future strategic channels.

Requirements:

Education: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain, or a related discipline, or equivalent relevant experience.

Planning experience: At least 2 years of merchandise or retail planning experience, preferably within a direct-to-consumer environment.

Strategic channel experience: Experience with Amazon and/or wholesale channels is preferred.

Analytical expertise: Excellent analytical, mathematical, and problem-solving skills, including strong proficiency in retail mathematics and the ability to interpret financial and sales data.

Forecasting and planning: Demonstrated ability to use merchandise forecasting, financial planning, and data analytics to drive measurable business results.

Commercial judgment: Ability to translate sales and financial information into decisions that improve profitability, inventory productivity, and product availability.

Communication and influence: Strong interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to build partnerships and influence stakeholders at multiple organizational levels.

Organization: Highly detail-oriented with excellent organizational and time-management skills and the ability to manage multiple priorities simultaneously.

Decision-making: Demonstrated ability to prioritize competing needs, make sound decisions, and influence outcomes in a fast-paced environment.

Technical skills: Advanced analytical application skills, particularly Excel, with proficiency in productivity tools such as PowerPoint and Word and a willingness to learn new systems.

Execution: Comfortable handling multiple projects and tight deadlines while maintaining accuracy, accountability, and attention to detail.

Benefits:

Competitive salary: Annual base salary of $68,000–$78,000 , depending on qualifications and experience.

Remote flexibility: Fully remote work environment within the United States.

Strategic impact: Opportunity to directly influence merchandise investment, inventory productivity, sales, margin, and growth-channel performance.

Cross-functional exposure: Collaborate with teams across Merchandising, E-commerce, Marketing, Sourcing, Supply Chain, and Distribution.

Professional development: Exposure to broad merchandise planning disciplines, strategic channels, analytical tools, and evolving retail processes.

Growth environment: Join a collaborative, results-oriented culture that values innovation, ownership, customer focus, and continuous improvement.

Equal opportunity: Commitment to an inclusive workplace where qualified applicants are considered without discrimination or harassment based on legally protected characteristics.

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