What are the responsibilities and job description for the Associate Planner position at KOHLS?
About the Role
As Associate Planner you will directly influence your buying office’s ability to meet financial plans and ensure customer satisfaction. You will build brand category plans from the bottom up, analyze historical data to forecast trends and capture them through inventory deployment strategies. You will work in multiple seasons at a time, offer insights into current results and recommend future actions to drive profitable sales.
What You’ll Do
Work collaboratively with the merchandising team for your category of business to provide financial plans and projections for your product assortments
Build, update and maintain Enterprise Planning (EP), KP2 web-based application and Vendor Performance Summaries (VPS)
Update Open-to-Buy (OTB) after the first pass is completed
Vendor and Brand management
Form and recap population
Manage inventory flow; push, cancel and chase
KPIs include: Sales, Margin and Turn
Partner with teams such as merchants, product development, supply chain, space planning and digital to drive overall strategy and results
Coach others in more junior roles to evaluate weekly replenishment and inventory flow strategies
Additional tasks may be assigned
What Skills You Have
Required
Strategic thinker and creative problem solver
Effective communicator
Adept multitasking skills
Experience creating and manipulating spreadsheets
This role is based at our Corporate Office in Menomonee Falls, WI. You’ll work onsite from Monday through Thursday, with the option to work remotely on Fridays.