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Merchandise Planner

CSC Generation· Backcountry – Planning
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Hybrid (Cottonwood Heights, UT)Full-timePosted 4w ago

About the role

Merchandise Planner to own open-to-buy planning, demand forecasting, and inventory management across multiple product categories. Partner with Merchandising, manage inventory levels, and deliver financial analysis to drive sales, margin, and inventory turn goals.

Responsibilities

  • Develop comprehensive merchandise plans that align with company goals, sales targets, and market trends for multiple product categories
  • Manage Open-to-Buy meetings and monthly reviews with senior leadership
  • Forecast demand using historical data, market trends, and customer insights to determine sales projections, inventory needs, and replenishment strategies
  • Monitor inventory levels, analyze sell-through rates, and recommend actions to optimize on-order quantities, maximizing sales and inventory turnover while minimizing stock-outs and overstock
  • Conduct regular financial analysis of sales performance, margin trends, and product profitability to identify opportunities and risks with actionable recommendations
  • Manage the financial success of assigned division(s) by meeting sales, margin, and inventory turn goals
  • Ensure structured reporting deliverables are met with accuracy, performance efficiency, and standardized best practices
  • Analyze business data to surface actionable insights and present findings clearly to cross-functional stakeholders

Qualifications

  • 3+ years of assortment, demand, or merchandise planning experience, including 2+ years in a retail ecommerce environment
  • Bachelor's degree or equivalent work experience
  • Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with exceptional aptitude for numbers and retail math
  • High proficiency with Microsoft Excel (pivot tables, vlookups, or more advanced)
  • Exceptional communication and presentation skills with the ability to distill complex information for various audiences
  • Ability to build and maintain strong working relationships across cross-functional teams and influence key stakeholders
  • Demonstrated daily use of AI tools (Claude, ChatGPT, Copilot, Gemini, or similar) for real work — you iterate on prompts, evaluate outputs critically, and know when AI is the right tool
  • Flexible and adaptive to changing priorities with the ability to organize and prioritize workload under pressure

Skills

Required:Open-to-Buy planningDemand forecastingExcelCommunication and presentation跨-functional collaborationAI tooling

Benefits

  • Cross-Functional Impact: Your work directly shapes buying decisions, inventory strategy, and financial outcomes across multiple product categories — partnering with merchandising, finance, and operations teams.
  • AI-First Skill Building: Get hands-on with advanced AI tools for analysis, forecasting, and automation — building a modern skill set that accelerates your career.
  • Ownership from Day One: Own your division(s) end-to-end, from building the merchandise plan to presenting recommendations and managing financial outcomes.
  • Competitive Benefits: Paid time off policies, 401(k) match, medical/dental/vision and a variety of supplemental policies, and employee discounts across our portfolio of brands.
Last updated Oct 21, 2026. Interested? Apply on the company site.
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AI Native Retail Future: Commerce AGI

CSC Generation is the AI-native retail holding company. We modernize iconic brands with data, automation and our Genesis platform to build the future of Commerce AGI.

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