Job Details
**Ecommerce and Merchandise Planner**
**Role:**Ecommerce and Merchandise Planner
**Brand:** Boardriders
**Location:** Huntington Beach, USA
**Summary:** This Merchandise Planner role will be responsibile for planning and buying Element/DC Shoes for our eComerce website. This will be a hybrid role with maind function in planning inventory levels and turn, but will also be requried to place buys for preseason and in season as well. **Responsibilities:**
* PRESEASON:
+ Execute assortment plans to meet seasonal sales and margin targets
+ Provides input into the Hindsighting and Insighting processes
+ Collaborate with ecomm team and digital marketing team to build seasonal email calendar which aligns with global campaigns, promotional activities, and key volume category investments
+ Influences and guides the regional line architecture to include ecomm specific product needs; recommendations will be provided on:
- Style and option count by category
- Key perennials and best sellers needed
- Segmentation of styles across inline, speed-to-market, supplements, collabs, and long-lifecycle
**IN-SEASON**
+ Manage the OTB and inventory levels, providing course of action on reorders of top sellers, markdowns on worst sellers, and increases/decreases on receipts for future seasons
+ Provide analysis on selling and reporting weekly/monthly to leadership
+ Manage transfer and markdown files
+ Partner closely with web merchandiser and E-comm team to provide insight on selling, with recommendations on featured top sellers, key trends, and brand marketed campaigns; these sales analysis will be used for e-mails, homepage features, site placement, and marketing calendar shifts
+ Additional tasks as needed