Merchandise Planner

Job Title: Merchandise Planner

Job Type: Full-time / Remote

Work Hours: US Hours

Job Overview:

We’re helping our client find a Merchandise Planner to own the financial planning and inventory strategy for Seasonal Box and Monthly Beauty Box businesses. In this role, you will manage pre-season and in-season planning, drive inventory health, and support cross-functional execution while contributing to overall merchandising strategy in a fast-paced, subscription-based retail environment.

Responsibilities:

• Own end-to-end financial planning and inventory strategy for the Seasonal Box and Monthly Beauty Box– managing pre-season plans, in-season OTB, and post-season recaps across both businesses
• Monitor weekly inventory performance and address inventory concerns, partnering with Ops, Site Merch, Warehouse, and Marketing on depletion strategies
• Navigate the operational complexity of subscription box execution — including coordination across fulfillment, marketing, and site teams on tasks that sit outside traditional planning scope, but are critical to box success
• Partner with Buying and Merch Strategy on assortment and category decisions, bringing a financial and inventory lens to pre-season planning conversations
• Maintain planning files and systems to support the Merch Strategy and total Planning teams, holding a high bar for accuracy, consistency, and process improvement
• Support Merchandising team and cross-functional partners with analysis and business decisions as needed

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience, with 4+ years of experience in Merchandise Planning and/or Buying.
• Strong Excel skills required; experience with planning or inventory systems preferred.
• Deep proficiency in retail math, OTB management, and inventory planning, with demonstrated ability to manage sales, margin, and inventory targets and reconcile plans to actuals in-season.
• Proven ability to collaborate cross-functionally with Finance, Ops, Buyers, Warehouse, and Marketing.
• Proactive problem-solver who can identify risks (sellout, excess, product expiration) and develop solutions independently, escalating as needed.
• Comfort operating in a non-traditional planning environment where execution across cross-functional teams is fast paced and extends beyond the playbook of a traditional planning role

• Exceptional organization and accuracy across concurrent workstreams, with a bias toward process improvement and building systems that scale
• Demonstrated fluency with modern AI tools (e.g. ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini) and the ability to apply them practically, for data synthesis, market research, workflow acceleration, and business analysis

• Excel/Google Sheets (advanced), planning and inventory systems, and financial planning/forecasting software.