Position Summary:

The Store Planner will serve as the expert for Stores performance. They will be responsible for creating store level reporting and analytics to provide a clear view of performance by door and aggregated performance by store cluster/region/climate. They will collaborate with cross-functional teams including merchandising, visual merchandising, operations, and real estate to develop and implement store plans that align with company goals and strategies. The store planner will hindsight in-season performance to help shape pre-season plans.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop Sales, Margin, and KPI plans by store through a multiple-lens approach (comp, builds, penetration, percent of average, etc.)
• Identify trends/risks/opportunities at store level. Make recommendations and recap business accurately to support store performance. Assess and proactively communicate any potential impact to topline sales.
• Report out on key drivers in actuals vs plan by store/region/volume grade/climate/district. Proactively identify any action steps needed (e.g. channel change, allocate more inventory).
• Hindsight relationship between sales and inventory at the store/district/region/season code levels. Liaise with Inventory Planning on any key takeaways to impact future allocations.
• Identify regional product preferences to recommend customized assortment by region based on weather or other factors. Liaise with the Inventory Planning team.
• Calendarize significant historical weather/holidays impact to understand trends and plan appropriately
• Identify risk and opportunities based on promotional offers and recommend strategies that will help drive financial results (e.g. store coupon performance)
• Manage and maintain store planning tools and systems to ensure accurate and efficient planning processes
• Create daily sales and KPI plans by state for Ecom and Stores that tie back to the Tax-Free Calendar
• Liaise with Finance/Real Estate teams to understand and incorporate impact to plans from future/potential store closures and relocations. Demonstrate ability to handle sensitive and confidential information.
• Project out by store returns and report on Gross Sales to understand the true health of the business and understand impact of returns by Brand
• Analyze by store impact of BOSS and SFS on Sales and KPIs
• Perform Ad Hoc projects as business needs dictate

Education and Experience:

• 3+ years of experience in Retail Planning and Analysis
• Bachelor’s degree

Skills and Behaviors:

• Expertise in retail math with strong analytical skills
• Ability to manage multiple projects from start to finish with minimum oversight, while still maintaining strong attention to detail
• Experience and comfortable working with large datasets and complex spreadsheets
• Strong Excel skills – able to use functions such as SUMIF, SUMIFS, VLOOKUP, CONCATENATE, IFERROR, MIN/MAX, MROUND, PIVOT TABLES, INDEX/MATCH
• Entrepreneurial mindset. Solution-oriented/creative problem-solving skills.
• Proactively identify key themes to analyze and further drive the business
• Sense of urgency
• Good organization and workload prioritization skills/detail orientation and accuracy

Strong team player

Works well with ambiguity