Merchandise Planner plans and forecasts for future merchandise buys based on historical buys, reoccurring buys and current inventory levels. Responsible for reviewing stock to sales ratios, responding to changing sales trends, and ensuring plan sales, plan markups, and plan markdowns are achieved by departments. Being a Merchandise Planner plans and coordinates merchandise flow-through. Inputs and maintains data in various merchandising systems. Additionally, Merchandise Planner may require a bachelor's degree. Typically reports to a supervisor or manager. The Merchandise Planner gains exposure to some of the complex tasks within the job function. Occasionally directed in several aspects of the work. To be a Merchandise Planner typically requires 2 to 4 years of related experience. (Copyright 2024 Salary.com)
Rhoback is looking for a proactive and analytically hungry Merchandise Planner to join the team with a primary focus of managing Rhoback’s sales and inventory forecasting at the colorway level to inform POs and strategic planning.
The Merchandise Planner should have excellent quantitative and analytical skills and be an expert in Microsoft Excel. The best candidate has strong experience in planning, sales forecasting and/or inventory management, ideally in retail or consumer goods, as well as experience with reporting tools. Candidate should have exceptional organization skills and attention to detail to effectively own Rhoback’s sales forecast at the colorway and SKU level. This candidate should also be comfortable pulling raw data, organizing it into a digestible format, and communicating it to inform tactical and strategic decisions. Finally, the candidate should be comfortable creating and managing KPIs around sell-through rates, velocity, and other sales KPIs.
This role will be based in Charlottesville, VA and will start as soon as possible. This individual will be working with the Merchandising team, Finance team, Production team, and Rhoback’s founders.
Responsibilities include, but not limited to:
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Company Mission: Rhoback is a community of passionate and motivated people looking to generate positivity, bring people together, and inspire activity by creating high quality products and engaging content for those who seek inspiration, motivation, and connection with a #craveactivity mentality.
Only serious and qualified candidates with a passion for growing a fun startup e-commerce brand will be considered. If you think you'd make a great addition to the Rhoback Team, please submit your resume and portfolio to laura@rhoback.com.
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