Category Planner

Position Overview

Be part of a growing lifestyle brand as we build out our Planning team at Greyson Clothiers. As a Category Planner, you will be responsible for supporting the inventory planning for both pre-season and in-season periods. This role is highly collaborative, and you will report directly to the Senior DTC Planning Manager to assist in the development & implementation of annual assortment strategies, maximizing sales and profits. This role will work cross-functionally to provide analytics and directional support to our sales channels as needed. This a remote position with occasional travel required to our Hawthorne, NY, and Detroit, MI offices as needed.

Duties & Responsibilities:

• Analyze trends and recommendations to influence cancellations, future purchases, and assortment strategies for the men’s Business. 
• Analyze historical performance to identify areas of opportunity or risk throughout the various channels of business. 
• Deliver Sales recaps monthly to analyze performance, identify opportunities, and develop recommendations that support the Planning and sales team KPIs.
• Maintain planning support processes for Greyson retail stores and CX events team, including replenishment, sell-through reporting, and special projects. 
• Establish appropriate processes and tools to review product assortments; provide data and analysis to support decision-making; and serve as the subject matter expert for the analysis of the women’s business. 
• Assist in the development of annual, seasonal, and monthly open-to-buy plans
• Understand inventory flow plans, while keeping the turn and GMROI goals top of mind
• Partner cross-functionally with production and fulfillment teams to implement consistent and profitable in-season replenishment strategies and practices.
• Assist in building pre-season class-level forecasts for Sales, Inventory, and Margin in partnership with the DTC Channel Leaders and Director of Merchandise Planning
• Ability to adapt to a highly entrepreneurial environment and respond to changes positively
• Detail-oriented; strong organizational and time management skills
• Working knowledge of Shopify e-commerce platform
• Develop and maintain a strong working relationship with all cross-functional partners throughout the organization. 
• Demonstrate strong analytical and communication skills

Experience & Qualifications

• Bachelor’s Degree in Business, Finance, Marketing, Fashion Merchandising or a related field.
• 3-5 years of merchandising, planning, buying, or equivalent experience preferred.
• Strong understanding of retail math and measures used in financial reporting.
• Advanced capabilities in Microsoft Excel, and ERP Systems an ERP (such as Apparel Magic, Blue Cherry, and NetSuite)
• Experience in e-commerce and DTC planning is highly preferred
• Ability to think objectively and interpret meaningful themes from quantitative and qualitative data
• Ability to evaluate financial and business indicators and translate data into actionable information to drive results.
• Demonstrated ability to constructive and effective relationships with a broad and diverse group of internal business partners.
• Effective in a variety of presentation settings including one-on-one, small and large groups, and with peers and Executives
• Demonstrates an ability to set objectives and goals and organize work appropriately to meet and exceed goals
• Can identify and articulate the processes necessary to get things down efficiently and align resources effectively to complete activities
• Must be proactive, able to problem-solve independently, and possess the ability to meet tight deadlines