Assistant Planner (Fashion)

Our clientis a popular children's apparel brand.

Assistant Planner Responsibilities:

• Create and manage style, category, size, and other various level selling reports needed
• Prepare daily/weekly/monthly sales, inventory and replenishment reports, and other ad hoc business recaps to support the replenishment team.
• Analyze store level business and inventory flow, to drive sales, improve in-stock and optimize turn.
• Formulate business strategies using historical and current trend analysis.
• Identify sales and profit opportunities/liabilities and make recommendations to the department.
• Research and resolve issues related to purchasing orders, shipments, and sales.
• Support cross functional teams with weekly reporting to support sales and inventory position.
• Item management process to sync both internal and external information.
• Create advanced Access queries and macros to data-mine and analyze retail data

Assistant Planner Qualifications:

• Bachelor's Degree in Business or related field required
• 1 - 3 years experience required
• Apparel manufacturing and/or Walmart experience highly preferred; Experience with Walmart’s Retail Link is preferred
• Mostly remote position but must be flexible to go into office once every 1-2 weeks.
• Comfort with learning new systems, including Walmart proprietary systems
• Strong Excel & Access skills for analysis and reporting
• Ability to analyze information and make data-based recommendations.