Demand Planner - Furniture

Job Description

Job Description

• Partner with the Planning leadership and Divisional Managers to develop seasonal merchandise plans that meet sales, margin, and turnover targets.
• Present seasonal buying strategies to leadership, align assortments, pricing, and buy quantities with company objectives.
• Collaborate with Marketing and Pricing teams to align promotional strategies after seasonal launches.
• Manage monthly financial plans, adjusting sales, margin, and inventory projections based on performance needs.
• Partner with Finance to contribute insights for long-range planning and growth strategies.
• Analyze and quantify the impact of strategic, promotional, and assortment changes.
• Work with Allocation teams to execute store receipts, buy targets, and program setups.
• Develop and manage item/location sales forecasts, incorporating promotional activity, pricing adjustments, assortment changes, and seasonal factors.
• Set and manage store and DC parameters, approving orders to maintain service levels and inventory productivity.
• Provide vendors with monthly receipt projections on core items up to 24 weeks in advance.
• Create and execute inventory optimization strategies to minimize stock-outs and overstock situations while maximizing cash flow.
• Partner with buying teams and vendors for quarterly and annual assortment reviews, providing analytics to support decision-making.
• Communicate assortment details, display requirements, and setup timing to store operations.
• Manage the “Scan Book,” ensuring timely updates to store teams.
• Utilize exception reporting to identify and address business risks and opportunities.
• Escalate vendor performance issues to buyers and management for resolution.
• Collaborate with logistics partners to improve communication, delivery accuracy, and freight efficiency.
• Respond to inquiries from District and Regional Managers regarding forecasts, assortments, deliveries, product damages, and inventory discrepancies.
• Group assortments based on sales volume, floor size, and storage capacity.
• Develop DC-to-store forecasts to support operational planning.
• Evaluate and execute closeout opportunities, including DSD closeouts, optimizing loads, assortments, and delivery schedules.
• Plan and coordinate grand opening assortments for new stores, managing setup orders and vendor follow-ups to ensure timely delivery.