WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS OF CHILDHOOD

Hanna Andersson is a Portland, Oregon-based premier kids and baby clothing brand. Our clothes are made to play, made to last, and designed to let kids be kids. We have core commitments to design, quality, and sustainability, and we believe in helping families create meaningful everyday moments. These principles guide the Hanna Way, and lead to an experience authentically different from other children’s brands.
We cultivate our unique brand by hiring team members who believe in these values, own a customer service mindset, and who are innovative, results-oriented, and comfortable working in a collaborative and growth-driven work environment. We all share in our brand’s success, and we actively encourage our team members to maintain a healthy balance in their daily lives.

POSITION SUMMARY

The Merchandise Planner at Hanna Andersson will take charge of both pre-season and in-season inventory investments, ensuring everything aligns perfectly with our business goals. As a key partner to our Merchants, you’ll leverage your analytical skills to drive business results through smart portfolio management.
Responsibilities will include overseeing the Open to Buy process, developing style-level pre-season plans, and optimizing prices in real-time to enhance sales, gross margin, and inventory turnover. Successful candidates will demonstratea strong planning background and exceptional analytical skills, a knack for problem-solving, and amazing time management abilities. Strong communication and interpersonal skills are a must, as this position will influence decisions and collaborate with various teams.

QUALIFICATIONS

• 2+ years prior planning experience; direct to consumer preferred
• Proven track record in driving results via merchandise forecasting, planning and data analytics
• Excellent analytical, mathematical and problem-solving skills and proficiency with retail math
• Detail-oriented with strong organizational and time management skills
• Demonstrated record of prioritizing, influencing and decision making at multiple levels in the organization
• Ability to use sales financial data to make decisions and maximize profitability
• Excellent interpersonal and communication skills with proven ability to build strong partnerships and influence others.
• Excellent analytical application skills (Excel, etc.) and desire to master new systems; productivity application skills (PowerPoint, Word)
• Ability to handle multiple tasks/projects with tight deadlines

Education

• Bachelor’s degree in Business, Finance, Supply Chain or equivalent experience in related discipline

• Own the development of division, department & style level plans that support the brand strategy
• Partner with merchandising to develop tops/down dept/class sales and inventory plans that align with division objectives
• Develop style-level sales and inventory plans
• Own bottom-up financial reconciliation of style level to department
• Own OTB, sales and inventory forecasting, including assessing total risks and creating resolutions to achieve/exceed financial targets in collaboration with Director of Planning. Drive strategies to positively impact assortment and financials
• Own business recaps (week, month, quarterly) to inform short-term and long-term financial strategies/action plans
• Provide regular analysis of business trends, both pre-season and post-season, along with the appropriate actions that support effective inventory management and maximize sales and margin and mitigate risk to all business partners
• Own recommending and executing in-season pricing strategies
• Drives business discussions and adjusts strategies to optimize inventory investments and maximize results
• Create and cultivate a collaborative, innovative and results-oriented environment
• Influence others, both functional and cross-functional partners, to drive results
• Maintain in-stock levels, and optimize inventory
• Partner with the sourcing team and provide long-range forecasts and seasonal item forecasts in line with the production calendar to ensure product is ordered and produced to support product launches
• Collaborates on continual development and improvement of planning tools and processes