Demand Planning & Inventory Analyst - Women's Apparel

at  Meison

MEISON is a collection of high-end and luxury women’s apparel brands including Jones New York, Misook, Ming Wang, Masai Copenhagen, and Kasper. We focus on elevated, timeless workwear and fashions that are easy to mix-and-match and designed to help build an effortless and reusable wardrobe. Our brands are found online, through specialty boutiques, and in stores with our various retail partners such as Neiman Marcus, Saks 5th Avenue, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s and Dillard’s.
Position Summary:
The Demand Planning & Inventory Analyst will take the lead in crafting and executing dynamic seasonal and core inventory strategies. Partnering with senior leadership, you’ll drive monthly revenue plans and projections, while shaping the product assortment to ensure each season’s lineup is impactful and profitable.

Pre-Season Responsibilities

• Establish monthly revenue and inventory targets for each sales channel

• Hindsight prior seasons’ performance and recommend necessary changes for future seasons

  Provide analysis and guidance on assortment size and composition to design team
  Work with design team to establish and communicate product margin targets prior to development process

In-Season Responsibilities

• Run open-to-buy process, including monthly sales and inventory projections; proactively address any potential sales or inventory risks
• Perform weekly sales and inventory analysis, re-forecasting at the SKU level to optimize sales and inventory
• Analyze the sales data and identify potential sales and profitability improvements, providing recommendations to teams
• Oversee allocation of merchandise by channel, making adjustments as necessary based on sales and inventory projections
• Track and manage replenishment style sales and reorders
• Oversee markdown strategy and execution
• Maintain seasonal size curves
• Build ad hoc templates as needed

Experience and Qualifications:

• Ideal candidate will have 2-3 years of retail merchandise planning and data analyzing experience
• Experience in a start-up apparel environment is a plus
• Strong strategic thinking skills, with a demonstrated ability to juggle day-to-day workload with long-term strategy planning and execution
• Exceptional Excel skills – must be able to build automated templates using raw data exports as inputs
• Inherent understanding of both the art and science of merchandise planning; our brand identity comes first, with a strong focus on profitability and growth
• Excellent communication skills and desire to collaborate with both creative and analytical team members
• Proficiency in data visualization tools
• NetSuite and data warehouse software experience is a plus

More about Meison
We are a family owned and operated Company, and our core values help shape our company culture. These core values are the foundation that we use to build our team, collaborate with each other, and how we approach our work. We are committed to providing the best possible service to our customers and partners, being action-oriented, innovative, exceeding expectations and acting with passionate ownership.
As we continue to grow and bring new brands into our portfolio, we strive to become one of the preeminent providers of women’s high-end luxury apparel in the US. Our goal through all of our efforts is to create a welcoming, inspiring environment that makes it easy for our customers to build a quality wardrobe that works for their style and their lives. They should not have to worry about what to wear or buy next — we do the thinking for them through our passionate understanding of their wants and needs when it comes to getting dressed. Not only do our collections delight the imagination, they also teach our customers how to dress, offering value beyond the aesthetic of a well-designed wardrobe.
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Pre-Season Responsibilities

• Establish monthly revenue and inventory targets for each sales channel
• Hindsight prior seasons’ performance and recommend necessary changes for future season

In-Season Responsibilities

• Run open-to-buy process, including monthly sales and inventory projections; proactively address any potential sales or inventory risks
• Perform weekly sales and inventory analysis, re-forecasting at the SKU level to optimize sales and inventory
• Analyze the sales data and identify potential sales and profitability improvements, providing recommendations to teams
• Oversee allocation of merchandise by channel, making adjustments as necessary based on sales and inventory projections
• Track and manage replenishment style sales and reorders
• Oversee markdown strategy and execution
• Maintain seasonal size curves
• Build ad hoc templates as neede