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Overview

REI Co-op is united in finding, building, and celebrating better ways to work. This helps people find and enjoy the outdoors. When you work for the co-op, you do your best work with support to live your best life. You also help shape the future of the outdoors for people and the planet.

This job helps REI succeed by leading financial planning for Co-op Brands. It ensures annual and strategic KPIs for sales, inventory, and profit are planned. In-season risks are managed, and opportunities are maximized. Use plans to match future season line plans, milestone forecasts, and final order amounts. The Planner aligns financial plans with the product team’s assortment strategies. Provide opportunity and risk modeling to stakeholders. Build exceptional relationships with planning, product teams, Product Strategy, and Supply Ops. Influence effective business decisions. Guide the Category Planning Manager and Forecast Analysts through Open to Buy. Maintain proper inventory levels to support the business. Work across divisions to share business trends and align with stakeholders. Model and act according to REI’s values and mission.

Responsibilities and Qualifications

Responsibilities

+ Develops yearly financial plans for classes, departments, and specialty shops. Plans include monthly sales, turn, margin, and receipt flow. Plans are based on corporate and specialty shop goals, market trends, industry trends, and class or vendor opportunities.

+ Accountable for the product/class level reconciliation roll up.

+ Manages future year annual, seasonal and monthly planning KPIs.

+ Manages in season risk and opportunity at the class level through OTB management.

+ Reconciles plans with cross-divisional stakeholders.

+ Understand REI Strategic Plans as they relate to Specialty Shop plans.

+ Supports the education, communication and awareness of planning across the organization.

+ Coordinates with Product teams to execute strategic business plans.

+ Facilitates product aging and life cycle management to achieve sales and profit goals.

+ Manages company financial planning process ensuring bottom up planning reconciles with department & specialty shop top down direction.

+ Provides opportunity/risk scenario planning to support business strategy and decision making.

+ Manages business/event review process in partnership with specialty shop leadership.

+ Identifies, manages, facilitates, and directs reporting best practices with specialty shop leadership. Creates and interprets data for the Merchandising and Digital organization.

Qualifications

+ 5 + years of Merchandising planning experience

+ Bachelors Degree preferred

+ Exceptional understanding of merchandising KPIs.

+ Planning experience to include line of business understanding (Retail channel, Online channel, Vendor/Co-op Brand planning)

+ Lifecycle Item Management and Assortment Planning experience

+ Demonstrated ability to project trends and articulate risks/opportunities to drive buying actions

+ Must be able to influence teams to make changes in business strategy

Closing

**At REI, we believe the outdoors is for all.** We are committed to becoming a fully inclusive, anti-racist, multicultural organization. We know that there's strength in our diversity – that each employee brings unique skills, experiences, and perspectives. Every day you are driving change, fostering a culture of respect, and knowing you're backed by benefits that support your whole life. To work towards this commitment and fulfill our brand promise of inspiring and enabling a life outside for everyone, we seek employees who demonstrate different ways of working, create a sense of belonging, and actively listen and learn.

Pay Transparency

We are committed to practices that promote pay equity and transparency. As required by applicable Pay Transparency laws, REI provides a range of compensation for roles that may be hired in locations under these requirements. Factors that may be used to determine your actual salary may include a wide array of factors, including: your specific skills and experience, geographic location or other relevant factors.

REI offers all regular employees a generous employee discount, access to health benefits, a retirement savings plan and accrued time off. Click here (https://foryourbenefit-rei.com/) for a detailed overview of benefits plans by employee profile.

Pay Range

$98,300.00 - $157,400.00 per year