Merchandise Planner

Merchandise Planner

The Merchandise Planner is responsible for creating and maintaining monthly department and item financial plans for their assigned categories and effectively partnering with the Product Developers and Merchants on identifying and implementing strategies to achieve the approved plans. This role is located onsite at our Corporate Office in Boston Heights, OH.

Essential Duties & Responsibilities :

The ideal Merchandise Planner candidate is curious, innovative, results-oriented, and focused on delivering a best in class customer experience through their work in executing strategy and exceeding financial targets.

Key fundamental skill sets for this role will be the following :

Tactical Management

• Lead and execute quarterly / seasonal hindsight process inclusive of fiscal view and seasonal view as well as other product attributes.
• Develop the annual, seasonal, and merchandise plans for assigned product categories plans in accordance with company goals, historical performance, and trend analysis.
• Create pre-season item level plans for sales, inventory, markdowns / sell out plans, style counts, productivity and margin in partnership with the Planning Manager and Merchants.
• On weekly basis, initiates and oversees analysis of business trends, including but not limited to, category performance, channel selling, margin drivers, and seasonality.
• Owns Markdown and Promotional strategy setting and execution to hit sales, margin, and inventory targets for new and carryover products.
• Ability to collaborate with peers and share best-practice to ensure consistency in tools, reporting and communications.
• Routinely presents recommendations and other analysis to senior leadership and executive management related to driving short and long-term business goals including hind-sights, color / pattern selling, etc.
• Provide strategic guidance to Merchant team.

Analytical Focus

Requirements :

Arhaus is an Equal Opportunity Employer and prohibits discrimination and harassment of any kind. Arhaus is committed to the principle of equal employment opportunity for all employees and to providing employees with a work environment free of discrimination and harassment. All employment decisions at Arhaus are based on business needs, job requirements, and individual qualifications, without regard to race, color, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, religion or belief, family or parental status, or any other status protected by the laws or regulations in the locations where we operate. Arhaus will not tolerate discrimination or harassment based on any of these characteristics. Arhaus encourages applicants of all ages.