Merchandise Planner

4 days ago


Mississauga, Ontario, Canada Walmart Full time
Position Summary...This role is responsible for achieving OMNI sales and profit targets for various merchandise categories, collaborating with cross-functional partners. Key tasks include financial planning, pre-season and in-season management, monthly forecasts, exit strategies, and business analysis.What you'll do...

This role demonstrates expertise in merchandise planning, developing, executing, and improving action plans. The role may provide expert advice and guidance, support efforts to meet business and customer needs, and build commitment for various perspectives and rationales.

The role builds OMNI financial plans for merchandise categories by partnering with cross-functional teams, preparing, revising, and executing category budgets, seasonal buy plans, and line review financials. It involves determining item/program quantities, conducting analyses to identify business drivers, and presenting financial recommendations.

The role supports OMNI profit and loss (P&L) for the category team by providing financial forecasts, preparing financial analyses and reports, and analyzing new items and merchandise line financial reviews. It also provides insights on how key inputs are used in inventory and margin forecasts, decision-making, and month-end recaps.

The role continuously develops financial strategies and key event plans by attending supplier meetings, modeling and analyzing the impact of key variables on category performance, preparing and reporting category strategy templates, and ensuring modular/seasonal assortment mix aligns with financial goals. The role may lead OMNI meetings, maintain markdown budgets, and collaborate with Merchants for planning activities and financial forecasts.

Qualifications :

  • Strong analytical skills and attention to detail

  • Demonstrated strong financial acumen

  • Experience with analytical tools (e.g. Excel, Access, SQL).

  • Must be strong in MS Excel

  • High problem-solving skills, and general business acumen

  • Solid relationship and influence skills

  • Minimum Education Required Bachelor's Degree

  • Minimum Years of Experience Required 1 - 2 year

*This is an evergreen talent pipeline requisition intended to collect applications for future openings. 

Leadership Expectations:

Respect the Individual:

Demonstrates and encourages respect for others; drives a positive associate and customer experience for all; embraces differences in people, cultures, ideas, and experiences; supports workplaces where associated feel seen and connected through a culture of belonging, so all associates thrive and perform; contributes to an environment allowing everyone to bring their best selves to work.

Demonstrates engagement and commitment to the team, developing others through feedback, coaching, mentoring, and developmental opportunities; and recognizes others' contributions and accomplishments.

Builds strong and trusting relationships with team members and business partners; works collaboratively to achieve objectives; communicates with impact and listens attentively to a range of audiences; and demonstrates energy and positivity for own work.

Acts with Integrity:

Maintains and promotes the highest standards of integrity, ethics and compliance; models the Walmart values and leads by example to foster our culture; supports Walmart's goal of becoming a regenerative company by making a positive impact for associates, customers, and the world around us (e.g., creating a sense of belonging, eliminating waste, participating in local giving).

Follows the law, our code of conduct and company policies, and encourages others to do the same; supports an environment where associates feel comfortable sharing concerns; reinforces our culture of non-retaliation; listens to concerns raised by associates and takes action; acts with accountability for achieving results in a way that is consistent with our values.

Is consistently humble, self-aware, honest, and transparent.

Serve our Customers:

Delivers results while putting the customer first and applying an omni-merchant mindset and acts with an Every Day Low Cost mindset to drive value and Every Day Low Prices for customers.

Adopts a broad perspective that considers data, analytics, customer insights, and different parts of the business when making plans.

Strive for Excellence:

Consistently raises the bar and seeks to improve; demonstrates curiosity and a growth mindset; seeks feedback, asks thoughtful questions; supports innovation and intelligent risk-taking; and exhibits resilience in the face of setbacks.

Implements and supports continuous improvements and willingly embraces new digital tools and ways of working.

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Minimum Qualifications...

Outlined below are the required minimum qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no minimum qualifications.

Age - 16 or olderPreferred Qualifications...

Outlined below are the optional preferred qualifications for this position. If none are listed, there are no preferred qualifications.

Walmart will accommodate the disability-related needs of applicants and associates as required by law.

Primary Location…

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