Senior Ecommerce Merchandise Planner

This role is the primary resource for operational functions associated with driving revenue and margin for our DTC sites.  Key functions will include demand planning, inventory management, POS & trend analysis, trade spend management and daily monitoring of overall business trends and operational performance.  This position plays an important role monitoring real time business issues, interpreting data and suggesting immediate action plans to address issues or take advantage of opportunities.  The role will work with Shark/Ninja internal cross functional resources to ensure business issues are communicated and acted upon in a timely manner. Additional responsibilities include:

1. Pull weekly business reporting documents identifying any call to action or highlights.
2. Coordinate and track sales performance to promotional expectations within assigned categories and help formulate a future shipment plan based on the results.
3. Work very closely with dem and planning teams, merchants and finance on all aspects of forecasting, inventory planning, and supply chain management.
4. Input the forecast and confirmed promotional plans in SFO and update Data Governance new additions and updated price lists to SFO.
5. Conduct weekly meetings with replenishment teams to review recent results and confirm changes affected positively and negatively to the sales.
6. Coordinate with supply chain both in planning and availability dates
7. Quickly develop a working knowledge of the business from both a product and consumer basis for our product and our competitions
8. Provide monthly financial update and conduct a deep dive analysis into key operational/sales performance metrics.

Requirements

1. Bachelor’s Degree or equivalent experience. (Concentration in Business preferred).
2. 2-4 years of experience in demand planning/supply chain management or business analytics/financial role within the consumer products industry.
3. Ability to draw insights across multiple complex data sets and incorporate into decision making.
4. Ability to work in a collaborative team environment.
5. Past operational or planning experience with large retailer preferred.
6. Must have demonstrated strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and advanced proficiency in the Microsoft suite of products.
7. Strong communication, organization, project management and interpersonal skills.
8. Must be able to set priorities and juggle several tasks within a fast-paced, deadline driven environment with a positive attitude.