Senior Assortment Planner

RESPONSIBILITIES:
Kforce has a client in Beaverton, OR that is seeking a Senior Assortment Planner to establish clear end to end bottom's up assortment plans partnering with Merchandising, Sales and Business Planning to create a line grounded in profitability, productivity, and consumer centric offerings. The Senior Assortment Planner will be tasked with creating pre-season style color plans that support the goals of the company by managing from in-season optimization to a robust, seasonal rolling forecast process in collaboration with account planning teams.

Overview:
Working on this team will be rewarding, challenging, and most definitely not be just another job. You'll be an ambassador of our brand - everything we stand for: drive, determination, the unyielding commitment to excellence. These all will be a part of your everyday experience. In this role, you'll establish clear assortment plans that tell a story for the season and helps merchandising create a line grounded in profitability and consumer centric offering. This will include collaborating with merchandising and sales to develop and communicate a comprehensive strategy that aligns future financial plans and product opportunities.

Duties:
* Leverage statistical forecasting, data science and new ways of working to develop plans and drive better decisions pre and in-season
* Influence others and craft compelling communication grounded in data
* Think critically and understand the potential of a style in the marketplace as well as quantify any gaps to financial plans from a bottoms up perspective

REQUIREMENTS:
* Bachelor's degree with a minimum of 3-5 years of directly relevant work experience
* One of the following alternatives may be accepted: PhD or Law degree and 1 year of experience; Master's degree and 0-3 year of experience
* Hands on forecasting/planning experience
* Excel expertise
* Experience with other planning tools (preferred)
* Good communication & storytelling skills
* Good stakeholder management skills and be collaborative in nature
* Display problem solving and critical thinking skills by developing accurate plans that optimize trade-offs and outcomes
* Understand of consumer and marketplace trend
* Demonstrate experience in assortment planning and understanding of financial, product and inventory planning
* Experience with larger/similar brands would make a candidate stand out

The pay range is the lowest to highest compensation we reasonably in good faith believe we would pay at posting for this role. We may ultimately pay more or less than this range. Employee pay is based on factors like relevant education, qualifications, certifications, experience, skills, seniority, location, performance, union contract and business needs. This range may be modified in the future.

We offer comprehensive benefits including medical/dental/vision insurance, HSA, FSA, 401(k), and life, disability & ADD insurance to eligible employees. Salaried personnel receive paid time off. Hourly employees are not eligible for paid time off unless required by law. Hourly employees on a Service Contract Act project are eligible for paid sick leave.

Note: Pay is not considered compensation until it is earned, vested and determinable. The amount and availability of any compensation remains in Kforce's sole discretion unless and until paid and may be modified in its discretion consistent with the law.

This job is not eligible for bonuses, incentives or commissions.

Kforce is an Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action Employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, age, protected veteran status, or disability status.

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