Senior Merchandise Planner

The Role:

The Senior Merchandise Planner plays a critical role in driving the success of the company's merchandise assortment and maximizing sales and profitability. This position combines strategic planning and analysis with operational execution to optimize assortment for our clients and inventory levels. The Senior Merchandise Planner collaborates with cross-functional teams to develop and implement merchandising strategies that align with the company's goals and customer preferences.

Your Responsibilities:

Inventory Management and Merchandise Planning

• Responsible for developing Planning strategies and executing against merchandise plans.
• Forecast sales and inventory needs based on historical data, market trends, and marketing activities.
• Plan and execute inventory strategies to optimize product availability and achieve sales and margin goals.
• Monitor inventory levels, keep rates, and stock performance to identify and address potential issues or opportunities.
• Proactively identify risks and opportunities, formulate actionable recommendations to address a fast moving business.
• Maintains the planning system with accurate parameters to improve forecast accuracy, receipt flow and performance of algorithms.
• Develop and implement strategic merchandise planning and forecasting models.
• Monitor and evaluate utilization and productivity of carryover and new choices on a weekly basis
• Identify, design, develop and implement new business tools and reports to inform buy decisions 
• Analyze pricing strategies, market competition, and customer preferences to recommend pricing adjustments that maximize sales and profitability.

Who you are:

• BA or BS preferred.
• 6+  consecutive years of years of prior retail planning and e-commerce experience at a high growth retail organization.
• Effective problem solver, with a hands-on “get things done” mentality. You are eager and able to solve challenges and tackle opportunities, identify potential issues and hurdles, and develop ways to get around them. 
• Effective prioritization and organization to stay positive and proactive in an ambiguous environment are a must. 
• Excellent quantitative and data analysis skills. You’re energized by data and are always looking to uncover insights to develop new ideas, test hypotheses, and make key recommendations. 
• Strong analytical and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interpret data and make data-driven decisions.
• Strong writing, communication, and presentation skills.
• Meticulous organizational skills with strong follow-through abilities.
• Understands that different situations may call for different approaches, showing the ability to be flexible in changing situations.
• Take initiative to start work quickly to meet deadlines with energy and a curious mindset
• Contribute positively to team dynamics and assist wherever possible.
• Advanced proficiency in Google Suite & Microsoft Excel and have aptitude to learn technical applications quickly
• Managerial experience preferred
• Have experience in subscription business desired 

Why You'll Love Working at Short Story:

• You'll get to work at an early stage start-up, to build the culture, and to have an outsized impact on our company and society
• You'll be a key part of the company with the ability to make high impact decisions
• You'll get the opportunity to try your hand at new things. We deeply believe in giving people opportunity to venture into new areas
• We are a successful, fast-growing startup solving problems that have not been solved before and reinventing fashion for an underserved segment
• We are a group of smart, passionate, hustlers with a wealth of diverse experiences
• We are motivated by unique challenges and opportunities
• We are our own customers; many of us on the team are petite women who love our products
• We are driven by the mission of helping petite women find their perfect fit so they can dress with total confidence

Benefits:

• Professional development resources
• Opportunity to work with a dedicated and experienced founding team
• Opportunity to work with a growing start up