Merchandise Planner

**Position**:Merchandise Planner

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DAVIDsTEA is a leading branded retailer and growing wholesaler of specialty loose leaf tea, offering a selection of signature blends, single-origin teas, and tea-related gifts and accessories through our e-commerce platform and 18 Canadian retail stores. Based in Montreal, we focus on innovative flavours, wellness-driven ingredients, and organic tea. We’re making tea fashionable and fun, and we pride ourselves on offering both the best possible service to our customers and a positive work environment for our employees

**About the role**

We are looking for a Merchandise Planner to join our Planning team

The Merchandise Planner is primarily responsible for translating the company’s vision into viable plans and profitable results. The Merchandise Planner is responsible for developing and maintaining sales, inventory, and margin plans that tie to financial targets for an assigned Category. The Merchandise Planner generates plans that incorporate statistically based forecasts, merchandise plans and business knowledge.

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**Responsibilities**

Pre-Season:

- Build a category/class plan based on guidance from the Director of Planning & Allocation for one specific season;
- Partner with Merchants to create and maintain a seasonal assortment plan and volume targets by channel and country;
- Develop assortment plans for sales, margin and inventory in support of productivity and financial targets;
- Incorporate impact of events and entrance/exit strategies;
- Propose initial and promotional pricing by item.

In-Season:

- Analyze and reflect current trends in performance of strategy based on actual sales performance; revise in-season plans for sales and profitability, control inventory levels;
- Partner with Merchant to develop and propose actions in response to current business trends;
- Manage and execute promotional and liquidation strategy;
- Work with Allocation to formulate alternate event options;
- Actively manage and update core sales and inventory flowcharts by pulling up, pushing back or cancelling orders and by working with the merchant to recommend reorders;
- Reporting/Analytics;
- Analyze results for relevant product categories relative to plan and trend performance for monthly/seasonal sales, margin and inventory;
- Prepare recommendations and alternatives for key financial meetings/decisions in order to maximize sales and margin and optimize inventory productivity, in partnership with Merchant;
- Participate in meetings as needed.

Integration Points:

- Partner with Merchant, Allocation, Finance and Marketing to make informed decisions on promotional events and season planning;
- Partner with Allocation, Merchants and Marketing on exit strategies, new item launches and collections; provide recommendations in response to financial targets;
- Partner with Allocation to establish and implement short
- and long-term inventory management objectives and review order quantities;
- Perform analysis and provide recommendations to the planning and merchant team.

So are YOU our next Merchandise Planner?

**Requirements**:

- 2-5 years of retail planning experience, inventory management, allocation or replenishment experience, financial planning or financial analysis experience;
- Bachelor’s degree in Finance, Business, or Statistics;
- Assortment planning experience;
- Strong problem-solving and analytical skills; proactively problem solves and recommends solutions;
- Strong aptitude with numbers; retail math skills;
- Ability to identify and influence critical stakeholders;
- Builds collaborative partnerships cross-functionally ;
- Strong communication and presentation skills;
- Ability to articulate detailed action plans to successfully accomplish goals;
- Understands and executes against business strategy and goals.

Sound good? Then join us in our mission of making the world smile— one cup at a time.
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**Poste**:Planificateur de la marchandise

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Nous sommes un détaillant chef de file et un grossiste en pleine croissance de thé en feuilles de spécialité offrant une sélection de mélanges signature, de thés d’origine unique et de cadeaux et accessoires liés au thé vendus par l’entremise de notre plateforme de commerce en ligne et de 18 boutiques au Canada. Établis à Montréal, nous privilégions des saveurs innovatrices, des ingrédients mieux-être et des thés biologiques. Nous rendons le thé tendance et amusant, et nous sommes fiers d’offrir à la fois le meilleur service possible à nos clients et un environnement de travail positif à nos employés

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Nous sommes à la recherche d’un Planificateur de la marchandise pour rejoindre notre équipe de la Planification

Le Planificateur de la marchandise est principale