Title: Planning Analyst
Salary: $70-80K
Location: New York City
Schedule: Hybrid Role (3x a week in the office)
Company Profile: A leading manufacturer and importer of branded and private label apparel is looking to add a Planning Analyst to their team. This person will be responsible for sales, profitability, and assortment analysis at the style/color/size level detail. This includes collaborating with customers to report on sales, track budgets, and set-up information
The Planning Analyst will Be Responsible For the Following:
- Run and analyze daily/weekly sales and inventory reports, prepared to discuss with managers and cross functional teams as needed
- Provide feedback and direction for day-to-day business operations based on reports and ad hoc analysis
- Formulate future business strategies and opportunities using historical and current sales analysis
- Create production plans by store volume group and current POS performance at the style/color/size level
- Identify sales and profit opportunities/liabilities and make recommendations to department
The Planning Analyst Should Have the Following Qualifications:
- Bachelor's Degree
- 2+ years retail merchandise planning experience involving sales/inventory analysis, and forecasting
- Ability to demonstrate strong analytical and conceptual skills and to negotiate and present information in an understandable format
- Comfortable with multi-tasking between multiple projects and achieving results, while shifting priorities as needed to meet business needs
- Highly proficient in Excel and PowerPoint
- Working knowledge of Microsoft Access, Microsoft BI, Python and Tableau