by Job Title: Merchandise Planner
Company: Living Spaces
Location: La Mirada, Calif., and the position will start to work remotely.
Description: Living Spaces is looking for an innovative, driven, and passionate merchandise planner to join its team. The ideal candidate will have natural talent: meaning, they possess the capacity and commitment, along with an openness to being coached around skills that will ensure they delight and exceed the expectations of our guests in all areas of Living Spaces business.
The merchandise planner will collaborate with product managers as well as cross-functional business partners to drive financial results in maximizing sales, inventory levels and profitability. This role will be responsible for determining the sales forecast, inventory flow, gross margin, and weeks of supply (WOS) of goods to buy through an extensive analysis of inventory on hand, on order, and forecasted rate of sale.
Responsibilities include participating with Pre-Season Planning for Outlet and Pricepoint Upholstery Business as well as developing merchandise plans and utilizing history, sales trends and market information to ensure accurate forecasting and inventory levels. The person in this role will create and manage purchase orders and review incoming containers to appropriate DCs while keeping in mind WOS targets and in-stock percentage goal and develop and maintain weekly/monthly/weekly merchandise reports
A Bachelor’s degree (B. A. or B. S.) or equivalent from a four-year college in merchandising or a business-related field is required, as is at least two years of experience in retail merchandise planning.
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