Wholesale Planner Job Description
Wholesale planner
provides data for productivity and utilization reports using Microsoft Excel and PeopleSoft system reports.
Wholesale Planner Duties & Responsibilities
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Sample responsibilities for this position include:
Alert Retail Planner and Sales of issues by size/color including trends up or down move outs of orders impacting coverage
Create product level sales and inventory buy plans, by category and customer, including sell-through targets and retail inventory performance implications
Track in season sell-through performance by product and retailer
Proactively identify and monitor trends in the Wholesale business
Replenishment Selling – Review selling weekly
Replenishment Forecasts – Manage $ and unit monthly replenishment forecasts
NPA – Analyze accounts’ set-up and fill sizing
MUOs – Issue MUOs monthly based on production calendar
Ownership of weekly selling reports for retail accounts
Analyze sales and stock performance by style, product class, brand and attribute groupings
Wholesale Planner Qualifications
Qualifications for a job description may include education, certification, and experience.
Education for Wholesale Planner
Typically a job would require a certain level of education.
Employers hiring for the wholesale planner job most commonly would prefer for their future employee to have a relevant degree such as Bachelor's and Collage Degree in Business, Education, Finance, Economics, Merchandising, Management, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Marketing
Skills for Wholesale Planner
Desired skills for wholesale planner include:
Excel
Childrens business
Microsoft Excel and experience of using BI reporting tools
Retail fashion industry
Excel and business objects
Formulas
GM%
Inventory turn
Levers to pull in order to drive GMROI
Lookups and macros
Desired experience for wholesale planner includes:
Submit buys to production
Develop bottom-up sales & inventory PC9 plan for field account
Communicate with retail planning partners on forecasting sales & markdowns
Maintain door productivity reports and branch trend reports
Create top line and door level plans by account and product category to ensure sales, inventory, receipt and margin goals are met and align with corporate financial targets
Manage the door planning process for each category by account including presenting & negotiating sales and stock plans with account partners, and re-forecasting through the season to ensure each location is maximized
Wholesale Planner Examples
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Wholesale Planner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our growing company is searching for experienced candidates for the position of wholesale planner. To join our growing team, please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications.
Responsibilities for wholesale planner
- Maximize sales and inventory performance by analyzing point of sale data to identify trends by door and product category on a weekly basis
- Communicate action based analysis from point of sale data to leverage ksny business
- Partner with sales team to achieve monthly shipping targets across account base and product category – provide selling and shipping analysis to recommend business opportunities and identify risk
- Actively participate with sales team in seasonal market and management appointments specific to product category responsibilities
- Alignment between Wholesale Merchandising/ Planning and Customer Operations in the up-stream allocation of inventory
- Fully align, partner and cooperate with the Buying, Allocation, Visual merchandising, Regional Finance and the Corporate Planning team
- Partner with Mainline about key investments and provide guidance for Wholesale customers
- Create Top Down Pre-Season Financial Targets for Wholesale, which support Regional and Corporate Buying initiatives (Product Pyramid, Big Ideas)
- Manage Bottom Up Pre-Season plans to Option level, analyse option productivity per market/country
- Review seasonal buys with Buyers and Allocation (reviews should focus on quantities by cluster and ensuring buys are within agreed budgets)
Qualifications for wholesale planner
- Leverage mainline analysis and reporting for wholesale and franchise customer
- Ensure Top Down and Bottom Up plans meet or exceed Regional Financial goals and are aligned with Regional and Corporate strategies
- Reconciliation of Regional and Divisional Plans at various stages of the process
- In-Season Sales, Margin, and Inventory management and reaction to business trends, delivering or exceeding on Regional financial goals for Wholesale
- Management and communication of Regional Inventory levels, throughout Product Hierarchy, through formal open to buy process
- Develop consistent formalised processes, which bring greater financial discipline to the organisation, with a focus on inventory
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Job Description Example
Our company is hiring for a wholesale planner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for wholesale planner
- Develop, implement, and execute a Replenishment strategy, consistent with corporate objectives
- Partner with key talent in planning and establish and environment that fosters collaboration to create a first in class planning team that influences investments and decision making
- Participate in the broader cross-functional Merchandising/Planning and Allocation management team
- Maintain Working Plans, monthly forecast, size selling percents, and percent by color by month updates
- Alert Retail Planner and Account Executive of issues by size/color including trends up or down move outs of orders impacting coverage
- Use key business reports to perform weekly/monthly performance analysis
- Partner with sales and merchandising to develop product strategies to hit shipping forecasts
- Review historical performance at the category level
- Collaborate with Wholesale Merchandising to develop regional category productivity targets (assortment architecture)
- Collaborate with Wholesale Merchandising & Sales to validate top-down targets
Qualifications for wholesale planner
- A BA in Finance, Economics, Supply Chain, or Business with a strong quantitative focus
- Minimum 3 years of experience in a quantitative, analytical role at a top-tier organization
- Knowledge of retail and merchandising metrics a plus but not required
- Experience with a formal planning application (JDA, SAS, RPAS, ) is plus but is not required
- Manage retailer’s OTB to profitably plan and grow the retail business
- Analyze various aspects of each accounts business to help push for additional business provide recaps for BCBG Max Azria Group management
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is hiring for a wholesale planner. If you are looking for an exciting place to work, please take a look at the list of qualifications below.
Responsibilities for wholesale planner
- Develop, manage and forecast the Open to Buy (OTB)
- Identify opportunities potential risks to increase sales, margin and turn
- Continually evaluate inventory position, forecast availability, supply chain lead times / constrictions, and best practices to meet target inventory turns
- Communicate with finance on PO buys, cash flow or inventory control constraints
- Work closely with four global offices to evaluate demand and facilitate inventory needs
- Analyze inventory turns and identity improvements
- Identify supply chain challenges and coordinate COE's / create communication tools to improve
- Help manage and implement product lifecycle best practices and new processes
- Create production buys, confirm approvals, track progress and problem solve to limit delays
- Mediate communication and provide support between Sales, Production and Operations
Qualifications for wholesale planner
- Minimum of 3 years accounting experience in retail & ecommerce, preferably including some management of staff or 3 years of public accounting experience
- Working knowledge of Retail point of sale software perpetual inventory systems
- Support the Operations team on staging volume drivers, allocations and warehouse capacity planning
- Handle other duties as they arise
- Previous experience in retail, visual merchandising, display planning or store environment would be considered
- Highly developed communication skills both written and verbal with credibility to influence at all levels of the business
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Wholesale Planner Job Description
Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a wholesale planner. Please review the list of responsibilities and qualifications. While this is our ideal list, we will consider candidates that do not necessarily have all of the qualifications, but have sufficient experience and talent.
Responsibilities for wholesale planner
- Develop global assortment plans and set sku targets and manage sku counts
- Build and manage annual, quarterly, monthly sales forecast by product category
- Coordinate with sales, marketing, and merchandising to develop forecast bottoms up/tops down
- Forecast demand shipments monthly by sku
- Assist in managing key metrics (sales, returns, markdowns/on order and margins)
- Assist in determining liquidated product and exit strategy for stock
- Work with Supply planners to ensure proper flow and delivery of merchandise
- Update and manage monthly OTB for two business categories
- Create reports/recaps of the business, develop financial plans and monitor the performance of sales, inventory, markdowns and profit by classification from a top-line to store level
- Work closely with the sales, merchandising and retail development teams to analyze seasonal merchandise assortments and execute merchandising strategies in line with OTB
Qualifications for wholesale planner
- Creativity and flair
- Flexible and quick to adapt (problem solving)
- Independent and able to work unsupervised
- Confident and able to make/defend decisions
- Able to implement new processes
- Bachelor’s Degree and 3-5 years of experience as a merchandise planner
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Job Description Example
Our innovative and growing company is looking for a wholesale planner. We appreciate you taking the time to review the list of qualifications and to apply for the position. If you don’t fill all of the qualifications, you may still be considered depending on your level of experience.
Responsibilities for wholesale planner
- Develop retailer-specific assortments within a defined space that maximize retail sales and align with internal financial goals
- Provide in-season and ad hoc sales analysis and recommendations to product team leadership to support decision making
- Manage open to buy plans, analyze sales trends and inventory levels
- Work with sales team providing analysis to help organization meet goals
- Liaise with a variety of departments to gather data, create, and present reports
- Produce and present formal Investment Reviews to the local market region, communicating how the investment decisions will support the aligned business strategy
- Manage retail OTB to profitably plan and grow the retail business for major accounts
- Produce and present formal Investment Reviews to the local market region, communicating how the investment decisions
- Partner with the sizing team to adapt and maintain sizing grids to maximize performance.will support the aligned business strategy
- Responsible for driving the international wholesale planning process and achieving quarterly and annual goals for both Full Price and Off Price channels
Qualifications for wholesale planner
- Experience in wholesale planning/allocation or jewelry category is a plus
- Driven and takes initiative
- Proficient knowledge of Microsoft Office and Google Enterprise products
- Experience in large high street retailers also preferred
- Apparel/fashion industry experience highly preferred
- Experience with planning and allocation applications – JDA – a plus