Merchandise Planner, eCommerce

JOB TITLE:  Merchandise Planner, eCommerce
REPORTS TO:  Director, eCommerce
DIRECT REPORTS: No
DEPARTMENT:  eCommerce
LOCATION: Deckers Japan

JOB DESCRIPTION:

The Merchandise Planner will drive the pre-season and in-season financial framework, assortment architecture, tops down strategy and forecasting for eCommerce. The Planner is responsible for the pre-season creation and in-season management of sales, gross margin, inventory for UGG, HOKA ONE ONE and Teva.

ESSENTIAL JOB FUNCTIONS:

PRE-SEASON PLANNING (30%)

• Partner with Merchandisers/Demand Planner to ensure product is properly bought pre-season not only to meet seasonal sales/margin targets but also to influence the regional line architecture to include ecommerce specific needs such as style segmentations, collabs and long-cycles.
• Provide guidance on reservations and communicate ST% assumptions. Forecast key items and recommend buy/reservation adjustments to ensure optimal inventory levels.
• Collaborate with Merchandising to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial and product opportunities by department and class through Roll Review meetings.

N-SEASON PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT (50%)

• Facilitate weekly/monthly/quarterly business planning across all key stakeholders to drive brand.com business.
• Set targets for traffic, conversion, orders, UPT and ATV for eCommerce by brand based on marketing and site activation daily strategies. 
• Partner with Site Producers and Marketing to identify styles in good inventory position to push and highlight styles with inventory issues 
• Provide insight and hindsight to site producers and online merchandisers on the sales and key trend on the featured top sellers.
• Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by class/product category.
• Collaborate with site producers, Merchandising and Marketing team to build a seasonal GTM calendar that aligns with the key global campaigns, eCom digital activations and key volume franchise/category investment.

REPORTING (20%)

• Communicate financial results, recommendations and action plans to manager and cross-functional team on a weekly basis.
• Establish a robust reporting structure to track ST%, inventory level and overall product performance to maximize the business opportunities for brand.com sites and to provide the insight to quickly identify the opportunities on the inventory allocation.

Education/Certifications:

• Bachelor’s Degree or related experience

Work Experience:

• 3-5 years of merchandise planning, inventory management, buying or finance in retail environment
• Forecasting experience preferred

Skills/Competencies:

• Conversational level English communication skills: verbal and written
• Able to develop and maintain strong working relationships with peers and cross-functional team
• Strong statistical analysis 
• Detail Oriented
• Demonstrate strong analytical and problem-solving skills
• Ability to evaluate financial and business indicators and translate data into actionable information to drive results
• Action oriented and forward looking
• Proficient in retail math
• Proficient in Excel
• and Japanese.