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Senior Assortment Planner

Location: Beaverton, OR
Contract length: ~8 months
Schedule: Hybrid in Beaverton, OR (WFH Fridays)
Pay: $45-$47.89/hr, DOE

The Planet Group is looking for a Senior Assortment Planner to join our well-known retail brand on a roughly 8-month contract! This role is 40 hours per week and will be hybrid in Beaverton, OR, working remotely on Fridays. This person will partner cross-functionally with Merchandising, Sport Planning, Business Planning, Sales, Concept Planners and Marketing/ Brand teams.

Senior Assortment Planner Qualifications:

• Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3-5 years directly relevant work experience
  • Note: One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law + 1 yr; Masters + 0-3 yrs
• Understand of consumer and marketplace trend
• Critical thinker that can understand the potential of a style in the marketplace as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective
• Experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning
• Hands on forecasting/demand planning experience
• Excel expertise
• Experience with other planning tools (preferred)
• Good communication & storytelling skills
• Good stakeholder management skills and be collaborative in nature
• Experience with larger/similar brands is a big plus

Senior Assortment Planner Description:

• Establish clear end to end bottom's up assortment plans partnering with Merchandising, Sales and Business Planning to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer centric offerings
• Create pre-season style color plans that support the client's goals by managing from in- season optimization to a robust, seasonal rolling forecast process in collaboration with account planning teams
• Leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season
• Influence others and craft compelling communication grounded in data
• Display problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes
• Collaborate with merchandising and sales to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities
• Present financial plans, forecasts and strategies in key meetings
• Proactively report on the health of the business, facilitate smart business decisions, communicate financial results, and create action plans to managers and cross-functional team members on a regular basis
• Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge
• 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 results
• Develop seasonal plans and monthly forecasts inclusive of sales, margin and inventory at the style color level leveraging analytics, develop strategies to meet financial goals and own open to buy bottom's up forecasts to inform manufacturing decisions through to in season optimization
• Partner with key stakeholders across Geo and Global to optimize business health throughout the entirety of the product life cycle inclusive of responsive offering
• Recap and analyze the business against forecast and forecast in-season sales and inventories on a monthly basis
• Product forecasting and in season optimization by analyzing data, & providing actionable insights
• Report on forecast variance across key planning gates and deliver action plans as well as risks & opportunities
• Support monthly and seasonal inventory planning and management activities
• In partnership with account teams, actively manage product; close-out process and aging inventory to maximize consumer demand and marketplace objectives

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The Planet Group and our companies are equal opportunity employers. It is our practice not to discriminate against any employee or applicant based on any criteria, condition or basis protected by laws or regulations in the locations where we do business. All qualified applicants are encouraged to apply. We celebrate diversity and are committed to providing an environment of mutual respect. We believe that diversity, equity and inclusion enable us to better meet our mission and values while serving our clients across the globe. If you have a disability or handicap and would like us to accommodate you in any reasonable way, please inform your recruiter, or contact us, so that we can discuss the appropriate alternatives available.