[Hiring] Senior Merchandise Planner @LOVESAC COMPANY

Role Description

As our Sr. Merchandise Planner, you will own the financial and inventory strategy for assigned product categories across channels, translating enterprise goals, customer insights, and product strategies into actionable merchandise plans. Serving as a strategic business partner to Brand and cross-functional teams, you will shape pre-season and in-season decisions that optimize sales, margin, inventory productivity, and profitable growth.

You will develop and manage category plans across key performance indicators and through analysis, forecasting, and scenario planning, you will identify risks and opportunities, influence investment decisions, and help build scalable plans for new products and categories while delivering against financial targets.

What You’ll Do

• Creates pre-season plans across multiple channels, consistent with the company's top-down goals, to be used in the development of the merchandise strategies for the season and to support line development and buying needs.
• Works closely with Planning and Brand partners to develop preseason product trends to revise the season's plan with updated projections that maximize sales and profitability.
• Partners with Planning leads to present monthly revisions of demand plans to Merchandise/Inventory Planning executives.
• Analyzes historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities. Review and analyze business performance trends.
• Understands and forecasts effects of markdowns on item sales rates and category/department profitability.
• Engages in all meetings involving the Merchandise Planning department (ex. Monthly S&OP, Weekly Business Meetings).
• Provides fiscal control through promotional decisions and inventory control.
• Develops in-depth knowledge of Omni-Planning and executes building plans at an item level that supports top level goals.
• Enhances knowledge of data resources that are available and become familiar with the merchandise for which they are developing plans.
• Supports team projects as needed; additional responsibilities as assigned.

Qualifications

• Core Values: Top Ambition, We All Win Together, Conscious Operations, As Few as We Can Get Away With, Love Matters
• Table-Stake Values: Willing to Sweep Floors, Grit, Positive, Self-Aware, Self-Starting, Insatiable Learners, Transparency, Customer-Centric
• Core Competencies: Builds Customer Centricity, Drives Remark-able Results, Collaborates Effectively, Makes Good Decisions, Demonstrates Self-Awareness

Requirements

• Bachelor's degree in business administration, Finance, or related field required.
• 4-7 years of progressive merchandise planning experience, preferably within a specialty retail or omnichannel environment; relevant retail buying experience may also be considered.
• Advanced retail math and financial planning knowledge, including sales, inventory, margin, turn, and open-to-buy management.
• Demonstrated experience building and managing merchandise plans for new products and categories, from initial forecasting and assortment planning through performance analysis and in-season adjustments.
• High degree of proficiency in MS Office Suite, Outlook & Internet applications.
• Strong analytical, prioritizing, interpersonal, problem-solving, presentation, & planning skills.
• Strong verbal and written communication skills.
• Demonstrated collaborative skills and ability to work well within a team.
• Ability to work with and influence peers and senior management.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and deadline-oriented environment.
• Self-motivated with critical attention to detail, deadlines, and reporting.
• Exemplify each of our Lovesac values, at all times, results driven and utilize knowledge to meet or exceed key performance indicators (KPIs), goals and deadlines.
• Must be able to travel using various forms of transportation, as required by the Company in its sole discretion, for mandatory meetings and conferences held either at our offices or offsite (i.e. quarterly team connection weeks, companywide meetings and events, vendor visits).
• Must comply with all policies and procedures outlined in the Lovesac Employee Handbook and work collaboratively with fellow employees, treating all clients, both internal and external with dignity and respect at all times.

Benefits

• Financial Benefits: Annual Bonus Program, Inaugural Grant Equity Award, 401K Matching Contribution, Financial Wellness Tools.
• Health and Wellness Benefits: Medical, Dental, Vision, Health Savings and Flexible Spending Accounts, Paid Parental Leave, Life/AD&D, Short Term and Long-Term Disability, Critical Illness and Accident Insurance, Employee Assistance Program.
• Paid Time Off: Up to 160 hours of paid time off within our fiscal calendar year, prorated from date of hire, 8 paid company recognized holidays.
• Pet Insurance and generous Associate Discounts.