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Summary

At The Source+, we help people save money so they can live better. This mission serves as the foundation for every decision we make to create the future of retail, from responsible sourcing to sustainability – and everything in between.

It is the responsibility of the merchandise planner to plan and forecast future merchandise buys based on historical buys, reoccurring buys, and current inventory levels. As a merchandise planner you will be responsible for reviewing stock to sales ratios, responding to changing sales trends, and ensuring plan sales, plan markups, and plan markdowns are achieved by all merchandise departments and categories.

Responsibilities

• Develop and update standard business reporting
  

• Project sales in-season and track open-to-buy purchase budgets

• Analyze business performance, past sales figures/trends to anticipate future product needs and provide recommendations to drive sales and margin for the business and communicate major deviations to relevant stakeholders.

• On a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis, recap and report back on the sales results to plan and forecast of in-season sales and inventory at a category level against financial plans.

• Develop and maintain store clusters using store volume, profile, capacity and performance by category, seasonality, and region; group like stores and create model stock for each category.

• Establish and monitor store capacity and inventory levels against a store level OTB to provide inventory guardrails to the buying and allocation team.
  

• Work with the buying team to actively manage inventory levels. This includes planning backup orders on key core items and major initiatives, recommending orders, increasing/decreasing inventory, and/or canceling orders.

• Provides assortment and brand planning guidance to the buying, cultivation, and production teams.

• Monitor and manage sales and inventory by store to maximize sales and product turn

• Perform bottoms up planning in terms of key item flow, sku sales plans, average stock, and replenishment requirements

• Provide recommendations on promotional strategies and end of life pricing techniques

• Participates and provides insights in key meetings on a weekly monthly basis (including, among other things, the Monday Business Review and Monthly Planning Review).

• Work closely with the Buying Team, Director of Planning and Store Operations to develop best-in-class new store opening inventory assortments

• Develop strong relationships with cross functional teams to help grow the business

Supervisory Responsibility

• None

Work Environment

• Remote/Telecommunicate

Physical Demands

• Office environment, lift up to 50lbs if needed, operating office equipment

Position Type/Expected Hours of Work

• Full time, flexibility nights, weekends, holidays, etc.
  

Travel

• 20%-30%

Required Qualifications

• Must be 21 years of age.

• High School Diploma or equivalent

• Must be driven to excel and succeed, taking full ownership of self-success

• Must have 3 – 5 years of experience as a Merchandise Planner with a medium to large size retailer

• Strong aptitude with numbers and clear understanding of retail math skills
  

• Strong organizational skills with ability to manage multiple projects, prioritize and meet deadlines

• Superior communication skills; able to communicate persuasively, influentially and responsibly across a broad spectrum of stakeholders

• Excels in team-environments and in building and developing strong interpersonal relationships, while maintaining an individual determination to accomplish goals

Preferred Qualifications

• 5 years of experience in a Merchandise Planning & Allocation role

• Self-starter. Willing and able to handle responsibilities with minimal direction

• Proficient excel user with experience in creating excel based tools

• Strong analytical and data mining skills

• Ability to influence leveraging data, functional expertise, and retail experience

• Strong problem-solving skills to make timely and sound decisions
  

• Excellent communication skills, both oral and written

• Strong collaboration mindset and capabilities. Flexible and adaptable to constantly changing environment.

Work Authorization/Security Clearance

• There is no visa or H1-B sponsorship. Candidates must successfully complete a criminal record screening or FBI Fingerprints requirements.

• Successful completion of a thorough personal reference check and background check from the Nevada Division of Public and Behavioral Health. Note that any applicant with a violent felony or drug-related offense (Conclusion of sentence, probation, and/or incarceration within the past 10 years) is not eligible to become a dispensary agent.

Other Duties

Please note this job description is not designed to cover or contain a comprehensive listing of activities, duties or responsibilities that are required of the employee for this job. Duties, responsibilities and activities may change at any time with or without notice.

AAP/EEO Statement

Nevada Organic Remedies is an Equal Opportunity Employer that recruits and hires qualified candidates without regard to race, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, national origin, ancestry, citizenship, disability, or veteran status.

• BELOW THIS AREA IS RESERVED FOR OFFICE USE ONLY.

New Employee Onboarding checklist for this position:

• 1. System access,
• 2. Hardware procurement and setup,
• 3. Office/Desk setup,
• 4. Facility Access

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