Senior Inventory Planner
Senior Inventory Planner
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Job Description
The Senior Inventory Planner will be responsible for delivering a bestinclass customer experience through the strategic management of inventory for our fastgrowing greenery & decor categories. You will partner with the Merchandising Purchasing eCommerce and Operations teams to maximize sales and instocks identify trends and opportunities optimize inventory efficiency and drive profitable growth. You will also have significant interactions with our large vendor network building relationships to help us sustain our longterm growth.
This fulltime position reports to the Manager of Inventory Planning and is expected to work in a hybrid model which currently includes Monday Tuesday and Wednesday inoffice.
What youll do:
- Create preseason itemlevel sales plans that align with company financial goals and opentobuy constraints
- Design inventory strategies that balance the composition of new and core carryover merchandise and support instock and inventory level targets
- Determine item level order quantities and flow strategies and partner with Procurement to ensure timely and accurate execution of purchase orders and track on time shipments
- Leverage historical data to identify key learnings around product pricing and inventory and apply learnings to future seasons
- Present strategies investments risk analysis and recommendations to crossfunctional partners and senior leaders
- Perform inseason item level forecasting and adhoc analysis to identify inventoryrelated risks and opportunities for chase
- Develop strong crossfunctional partnerships with Merchandising Sourcing Ecommerce Operations and external vendors
- Provide critical thought partnership to functional leads within the teams you support
- Regularly meet with managers and leaders to understand team landscape diagnose issues and brainstorm potential solutions and generally support team health and pathways forward
- Navigate interpersonal and team dynamics with comfort and experience managing conflict and difficult conversations
What you bring to the table:
- 5 years of work experience with at least 3 years in an inventory planning or forecasting role
- Bachelors degree in Math Finance Accounting Business or Statistics preferred
- A passion for drawing insights from data
- Excellent business acumen
- Comfort with ambiguity
- Strong Excel skills
- Exceptional communication skills including the ability to partner with and influence internal partners and external vendors
- Strong attention to detail when identifying data relationships trends and anomalies
- Proficiency in retail math and experience managing a traditional opentobuy
- Creative problem solver
- Ability to take initiative and deliver tangible results within deadlines
- Ability to take direction from several individuals and be selfdirected
- Experience in retail or ecommerce strongly preferred
- Experience with direct vendor negotiation preferred
About Us: Balsam Brands is a global eCommerce retailer with roots in holiday and home dcor. We strive for excellence in everything we do and present a unique opportunity for those seeking to have a meaningful impact in a peoplefirst company that values relationship building authenticity and doing the right thing. We have steadily growing teams in Boise the Bay Area Dublin and the Philippines.
The companys mission is to create joy together. We empower our team and partners to love what they do provide products and experiences that inspire meaningful moments with family and friends and give back to our families and communities in impactful ways. When you join Balsam Brands youll find a culture of caring people doing challenging work and building a welcoming workplace.
At Balsam Brands we strive to offer a competitive compensation and benefits package. For permanent fulltime team members our current package includes:
- Competitive compensation including a cashbased incentive plan; salary is reviewed yearly and may be adjusted as part of the normal compensation review process
- Comprehensive Medical Dental and Vision coverage with 100% of monthly premiums covered for team members and 85% employerpaid premiums for other coverage tiers that include dependents
- Up to $2000 annual funding toward HSA accounts
- Medical transit dependent care FSA
- Infertility coverage offered on all medical plans
- Generous parental leave program and flexible return options
- Companypaid life and AD&D insurance
- Companypaid short and longterm disability insurance
- 401(k) with dollarfordollar company match up to $4000 per calendar year
- Employee Assistance Program (EAP) and other mental health and wellness perks
- Paid holidays annual shutdown week PTO and volunteer timeoff (VTO) packages
- Paid 5week sabbatical leave after 10 years of employment
- Annual continuous learning benefit up to $1000 per person per fiscal year
- Up to $300 flexible reimbursement to support setup of new team members workfromhome environment
- Generous team member merchandise discount
- Valuable extras: identity theft protection subsidized parking monthly wellness pet insurance accident & critical illness insurance
The base pay range for this position is: $90000$103000. Where an individual falls within that range will vary based on several factors including geographic location and may vary depending on candidate qualifications and experience applicable skills and other jobrelated factors. We benchmark our pay ranges against current external data sources and regularly review compensation for our team members. Balsam Brands is committed to providing our team members with an internally fair externally competitive and fiscally prudent total compensation package administered in a simple and consistent manner.
At Balsam Brands we strive to build a diverse equitable and inclusive team to fulfill our purpose to create joy together. Balsam Brands is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. We encourage people from all backgrounds ages abilities and experiences to apply. We do not discriminate on the basis of race ethnicity religion national origin citizenship marital or family status disability sexual orientation gender identity or expression pregnancy or caregiver status veteran status or any other legally protected status. We will ensure that individuals with disabilities are provided reasonable accommodations to participate in the job application and interview process to perform essential job functions and to receive other benefits and privileges of employment.
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Additional Information :
All your information will be kept confidential according to EEO guidelines.
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Fulltime
Employment Type
Full-time
