Senior Assortment Planner
Planning and AllocationRemote,
United States
Description
At Torrid we're committed to cultivating a welcoming, inclusive and diverse culture driven by a focus on open dialogue, empowerment, recruiting, training, development and retention. We believe inclusion of diverse backgrounds and perspectives is fundamental to our success.
We are seeking a strategic and commercially driven Senior Assortment Planner to lead the development of optimized product assortments across selling channels. In this role you will play a critical part in balancing customer demand, brand strategy, and financial objectives to maximize sales, margin, and inventory efficiency in a fast-paced fashion environment.
What You'll Do
- Prepare and manage the assortment plans for assigned product categories during each product life cycle.
- Develop data-driven assortment frameworks aligned with brand vision, customer insights, and financial targets
- Utilize learnings from the planner/merchant provided hindsight and current in season trends to inform go forward assortment plans.
- Establish pre-season assortment targets (style/choice counts, sales $ productivity, % mix) in partnership with the Planning and Merchant teams Identify opportunities and risks within future assortments.
- Provide recommendations to Design, Merchants and Planning related to key category attributes (color/pattern, body/silhouette, fabrication etc.)
- In season monitoring of KPIs such as sales, gross margin, inventory turn, weeks of supply, and markdown performance
- Foster a culture that is open, honest, and centered around continuous improvement.
What You'll Need
- 5 years of experience in Merchandise/Assortment planning.
- Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel required, including v-lookups, pivot tables, and basic macros.
- Proficiency in Word, Outlook, and PowerPoint (Microsoft Office Suite)
- Prior experience with retail planning and forecasting systems preferred.
- A culture where people are accepted and encouraged to be who they are.
- Competitive compensation, 401k with company matching contribution, plus potential to earn company performance-based bonuses.
- Comprehensive wellness package including, medical, dental, vision, and Flexible Spending Account
- Generous 50% employee discount and access to employee-only sales.
- Support the causes you’re passionate about. We pay you up to 32 hours annually for volunteering your time in the community.
- Tuition reimbursement program
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) - Aimed at helping employees address a variety of personal and family issues including legal financial consultations, mental health services and more.
- Discounts on entertainment tickets and more.
- Work and learn alongside industry-leading executives while making huge strides in impacting the lives of women.
- You’ll be challenged and grow. Opportunity for upward mobility is available at all levels of the organization.
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