Senior Analyst, Assortment Planning
Core
Provide subject matter expertise and analytical support to assortment decisions for a designated department, executing category and product line reviews to improve category performance.
Role type
Senior Analyst, Assortment Planning
Builds
Category business reviews, product line reviews, financial plans, and executive-level presentations
Domain
Retail merchandising and assortment strategy
Deliverable
product features
Required skills
Financial analysis, data set insight generation, marketplace trend analysis, competitive assessment, vendor portfolio evaluation, executive presentation development
Preferred skills
Merchandise planning, Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, project management
Technologies
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint
Responsibilities
Collaborate with merchants to determine category review goals and objectives; conduct standard and ad hoc analysis to identify key drivers of performance; recommend assortment decisions that will improve category performance; develop financial plans that reflect category changes; develop executive-level presentations that summarize analysis including historical category performance, strategic rationale underpinning assortment decisions and expected financial impact; report out to all levels of management
Seniority
Senior, hands-on IC