Job Details
Associate Planner at Macy's Inc.
Location: New York, NY, US 
On the Web: www.macyjobs.com
| Industry Segment: | Retail |
|---|---|
| Position Type: | Full-time |
| Compensation: | $52,700 - $79,000 |
| Job Code: | PLA00249 |
| Date Posted: | August 6, 2010 |
Description
Overview of Position
The Associate Planner takes ownership of a portion of the Planner’s overall business.The Associate Planner will be responsible for the driving the location sales through analysis that is “action oriented” to improve trend, fund locations exceeding plan, and improve assortments and allocations based on location results or profile.
Key Accountabilities
· Drive sales and margin in area of responsibility.
· Conduct location analysis to identify opportunities, provide input to planner on location opportunities and develop location profile.
· Adjust location assortments (both breadth and depth) based on location results and District input.
· Manage location data for rollouts/pullbacks to meet sales, margin and turnover goals.
· Manage on orders vs. trends and make appropriate adjustments partnering with Planner.
· Develop analysis to understand all significant variances to plan and develop action plan to get store on plan.
· Prepare analysis of location performance, best sellers/slow sellers, sell through, etc.
· Provide and forecast projections and re-orders by vendor.
