Your Role:The Senior Planner is responsible for delivering sound financial and planning analysis related to sales, margin, pricing, and inventory for VS&Co outlet stores and, to a lesser extent, the VS&Co. clearance site. This role works very cross-functionally with a broad partner group including finance, pricing, planning, real estate, store ops, field, digital, and the distribution center.
Your Impact:- Prepare and analyze reporting that identify business risks/opportunities as they relate to sales, margin, and inventory management (outlet stores and clearance site).
- Identify and action pricing opportunities at the category and item level
- Maintain category-level forecast of sales, units, margin, and inventory levels... to identify opportunities for optimization and assess outlet store (and clearance site) selling capacity. Analysis will include style and SKU level reviews and pricing/cost information.
- Partner with planning teams to influence pre-outlet pricing/inventory strategy (e.g. MOOS targets)
- Prepare monthly business review analysis as it relates to sales, margin, and inventory management to support key milestone meetings
- Prepare monthly/seasonal budget and close responsibilities
- Collaborate with many cross functional partners as noted above, including leading project initiatives from time to time
- Complete special projects and ad hoc analysis as directed
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Your Experience:- 5-7+ years of retail merchandise planning, inventory management, financial planning or financial analysis experience
- Bachelor's degree in finance or accounting preferred, MBA a plus
Additional Preferred Experience:- Demonstrated commitment to excellence in delivering results as part of broader business
- Ability to meet deadlines and handle multiple tasks/projects while working in a dynamic, fast changing environment
- Ability to work effectively with various levels of management throughout the organization
- Strong problem-solving skills and ability to work independently
- Strong attention to detail and Microsoft Excel modeling / Power Point abilities
- Excellent team building skills and comfort with environment of change and group decision making
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
