Inventory Planner, Big Boys
The Childrens Place
**Location:**
Secaucus, New Jersey
**Job Summary:**
The Planner will be responsible for the complete financial management of assigned area of responsibility, including the creation of financial and merchandise plans, actualization of results, and a keen ability to identify, communicate, and implement strategic business opportunities at the division, category, and season code levels. The Planner will forecast sales, markdowns, and inventory levels on a regular basis and identify risks to the business and develop action plans in cooperation with their merchandising partner to mitigate risks profitably.
**Responsibilities:**
**Key Accountabilities** :
+ Create monthly financial plans at division and category level for fiscal time periods
+ Reforecast sales, gross margin, and inventory for fiscal time periods
+ Recap end of season performance at division, category, season, and style levels for merchandise buy period
+ Conduct basic stock replenishment (order quantity by style, color, and size)
+ Key item planning for all basic styles (sales, margin, inventory)
+ Conduct daily, monthly, quarterly, and seasonal sales reporting
+ Manage inventory flow on fashion receipts
+ Develop size curve and pre-pack definitions
+ Partner with merchant to support the buy process
**Education and Experience:**
+ Bachelor’s degree
+ 3+ years of experience in retail planning and analysis
**Skills and Behaviors:**
+ Proven track record of financially astute business management
+ Expertise in retail math with strong analytical skills/ learning agility
+ Strong problem solving and decision making skills
+ Ability to identify and clearly communicate business opportunities and risks/ analytical and data reasoning
+ Good organization and workload prioritization skills/ detail-orientation and accuracy
+ Proficient in planning systems and Microsoft Office
+ Strong team player/relationship-building
+ Proven process of improvement and problem solving
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