Job Description

Job Overview:

The Demand Planner is responsible for overseeing all aspects of strategic planning management for high volume account(s) while assuming financial accountability to drive results.

Key Accountabilities:

• Develop product category goals and create seasonal buy plans that tie back to wholesale financial goals
• Consolidate demand for the total wholesale channel and partner with Production to ensure that receipt needs for wholesale channel deliveries are consistently met
• Run internal margin reporting and analysis
• Partner with cross functional management to drive company's strategic initiatives
• Partner with Merchandising to utilize the directed assortments by tier of distribution to affect the buys
• Run seasonal post mortem analysis to drive buys of purchasing to achieve sales goals
• Execute, develop and ensure capacity plans are met
• Support the management of inventory
• Analyze quarterly projections for replenishment styles
• Manage timelines to hit buying and sourcing deadlines encompassing account needs
• Support system development to enhance planning program functionality
• Special projects as assigned

Requirements

Required Skills/Abilities/Education:

• Bachelor’s Degree in Fashion Merchandising, Finance or related field
• 3-5 years’ experience in Planning in the wholesale fashion industry
• Proficient in Microsoft Office (knowledge of AS400 a plus)
• Excellent organizational, communication and presentation skills with attention to detail

Consistent in-office presence is vital to the role as it is for all team members, so that we all have a full appreciation, aesthetically and tactilely, of the qualities that define our brand partners’ products and set them apart from their competitors.