Associate Merchandise Planner

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About Birchbox

Founded in 2010, Birchbox is a leading beauty and grooming retailer, offering an efficient, personalized way to discover and shop for new products. We redefined the e-commerce experience by pairing a monthly subscription of samples with a curated online shop featuring more than 500 best-in-class brands. Every month, subscribers receive five prestige samples tailored to their unique profile along with inspiring editorial content that creates a seamless path to purchase full-size versions of their favorites on Birchbox.com. In 2012, we launched Birchbox Man and expanded internationally, and in 2014, we opened our first brick-and-mortar store in Soho. Today we have more than one million subscribers and operate in six countries, including France, UK, Spain, Ireland and Belgium. Birchbox is headquartered in New York City.

Position Overview

Birchbox is looking for an Associate Planner to join the Merchandising & Planning team. You will work within a category of business supporting a Planner by analyzing sales trends and identifying business opportunities in a highly complex and dynamic environment. We are looking for someone willing to dive in and provide insights about all of the different categories within beauty and grooming. You will also collaborate with many other cross-functional teams in this role including Merchandising, Data, Operations, and Marketing.

Specifically you will:

  • Support the Merchandising & Planning team with data reporting and analysis
  • Assist Planners with forecasting sales, samples and inventory
  • Ensure receipts are rolling up against open to buy forecast for the month
  • Maintain internal systems with order related information (case packs, availability dates, etc)
  • Generate weekly reports for business review meetings with Merchants
  • Flag out of stock items to Planners and work with operations to resolve
  • Coordinate priority projects across the Planning team
  • Support international planning and retail as needed
  • Suggest best practices, and ways to make the role and department even better

A successful Associate Planner candidate has:

  • Bachelor’s Degree
  • 2-4 years experience in a quantitative role (planning, finance, etc)
  • Retail planning or merchandising experience preferred
  • Advanced Excel skills
  • Strong communication skills
  • Detail oriented
  • The drive to "Google it" when you don't know
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16 Madison Sq W, New York, NY 10010

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