What are the responsibilities and job description for the Demand Planner position at Altern Technology Systems?
Summary
We are looking for a Lead Client Direct Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom’s up merchandise plans, partnering with Consumer Fields of Play Assortment Planners, Merch Financial Planning, Marketplace and Finance to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer centric offerings by creating pre-season style color plans that support the goals of Nike and consumer field of play and managing through to in-season optimization through a robust rolling forecast process and collaborative weekly offense with marketplace. You will deliver a seasonal buy that is aligned to Retail Sales, Inventory and Market expectations, including door, flow and size specificity.
WHO YOU WILL WORK WITH
You will work closely with GEO CFoP Merch Planning, Merch Financial Planning, Marketplace and Finance; to create a robust rolling forecast for our business grounded in quantitative and qualitative metrics of sales, inventory and margin.
WHAT YOU BRING
• Leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season
• Demonstrated experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning
• Strong ability to influence and ability to design compelling communication grounded in data
• Ability to think critically and understand the potential of a style in the marketplace as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective
• Demonstrated problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes
• Current understanding of consumer and marketplace trend
• Typically requires a Bachelor’s degree and minimum of 3-5 years directly relevant work experience
Looking for someone who:
- is well versed in brick and mortar store planning
- has experience working internationally/ has a global mindset
- is analytical, makes good decisions based off data
- is demanding in terms of workload, can manage completing priorities and work through multiple deliverables as there is a lot of time sensitive deadlines and presenting**
