The Associate Planner for Bed Bath & beyond creates and manages bottom-up item sales and inventory plans for assigned departments.  The Associate Merchandise Planner will work with the Merchandise Planner to reconcile these item plans to the overall department financial goals.

• Create and manage sales and inventory targets for identified core programs, ensuring consistent stock levels.
• Partner with Buyer and Merchandise Planner to identify high volume key items for potential re-orders.
• Partner with allocation team to maximize store level inventory balance on all core programs.
• Partner with Buyer and Planner to create sales targets on promotional merchandise, while identifying risk to the overall department sales plan.
• Manage and review monthly assortment plans to ensure sku rationality.
• Create and manage sales, inventory, and profit targets for assigned cross category product attributes.
• Partner with IT team to create better and more efficient reporting based on the needs of the merchandising team.
• Run and analyze ad hoc reports in order to react to current business trends as well as anticipate future business trends.
• Demonstrates a committment to The Brand House Collective values.

• Bachelor’s Degree
• 2-3 years of experience in Planning, Allocations, Assistant Buying or related field. Store experience is a plus.
• Highly motivated and results oriented.
• Ability to negotiate with and influence peers and members of cross functional team.
• Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships.
• Ability to formally present business strategies and action plans.
• Demonstrates strong communication skills, both written and verbal.
• Must be proficient in Microsoft office.
• Ability to sit at a computer for extended periods of time.