Job Description
The Associate Planner is responsible for supporting the Planning Manager by maintaining, analyzing, and executing the business plan to achieve maximum business results. They will also act as a liaison between the Sales and Replenishment teams to ensure that orders are aligned with business plans. This role supports our growing socks and underwear businesses for a major retailer and industry leading brands.
Responsibilities:
- Actualize weekly sales inventory and receipt ladder plans to monitor performance versus plan and prior year
- Assist with the modular planning process by providing selling insights for the business plan and drawing modular planograms
- Conduct weekly sales and inventory reporting providing analysis and insight into performance versus prior year and budget
- Assist in preparation for the weekly team meetings
- Provide ad hoc analysis to help drive the business forward and/or address issues as they arise
- Collaborate with the Replenishment team each week to ensure the correct SKUs are being ordered by the customer
- Bring strong work ethic and positive attitude to your responsibilities everyday
- Maintain internal files and databases
- Write manual orders for customer stores when needed
- Complete and deliver seasonal planning files to customer on a deadline
Qualifications:
- Bachelor’s Degree in related field preferred
- 1-3 years of relevant Planning experience
- Strong Excel skills
- SAP experience a plus
- Proactive attitude with the desire to learn and grow on our team
- Ability to manage multiple high priority tasks with a high sense of urgency and work efficiently in a fast-paced environment
- Excellent verbal and written communication skills
- Retail Link and/or Scintilla experience a plus
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