Senior Merchandise Planner

Why You Will Be Excited About This Role
Picture yourself walking into a creative New York SoHo-style office each morning, knowing that your strategic decisions will directly impact this eCommerce powerhouse. In this newly created Senior Merchandise Planner role, you'll be joining this label during one of the most exciting chapters in their growth story - where your expertise will shape their expansion and drive the label to soring heights.

Over the next 12 months, you'll transform from a skilled planner into a strategic business partner, working to drive top-line performance while building planning excellence from the ground up. You'll have the rare opportunity to establish planning processes and systems that will scale with our clients ambitious growth, making your mark on this ecommerce powerhouse.
What makes this opportunity extraordinary:

• Shape a growth trajectory - Your planning strategies will directly fuel an exciting expansion, with immediate visibility to senior leadership
• Build something meaningful - Every forecast you create and inventory decision you make helps ensure a seamless customer experience.
• Accelerated career development - Work closely with C-suite executives in a fast-paced environment where your insights drive real business outcomes

Why You Will Like Working Here
You'll thrive in this environment where innovation isn't just encouraged - it's essential, entrepreneurial spirit flows through everything our client delivers. You'll work alongside passionate colleagues who genuinely care about each other's success, where your voice will be heard and your ideas will make a difference. You'll gain exposure to all aspects of ecommerce fashion retail, from understanding customer behaviour through social media and marketing all with the view to optimising inventory across multiple channels. The collaborative culture means you'll work seamlessly across departments, building relationships that accelerate both the business and your career.

What You Will Be Working On
You'll own the strategic planning that fuels our clients growth, focusing on the high-impact activities that drive revenue and profitability. Your days will be spent analysing performance data to uncover opportunities, forecasting demand to ensure we never miss a sale, and collaborating with cross-functional teams to align our buying strategies with customer demand.
You'll contribute to business planning and top-line performance management, giving you exposure to strategic decision-making. You'll develop and refine Weekly Sales, Stock, and Intake planning tools, ensuring inventory investments maximise both sales potential and margin performance.
Your analytical insights will guide promotional strategies, help optimise product assortment across channels, and ensure the right stock levels are maintained to meet seasonal peaks while minimising markdown risk. You'll also play a key role in mentoring and developing planning capabilities as our client continues to scale.
Key areas of impact:

• Strategic inventory planning and allocation to maximise sales while protecting margins
• Advanced forecasting and demand planning using historical data and market insights
  Cross-functional collaboration with buying, marketing, and operations teams
• Financial planning partnership with the CFO on budgeting and performance management
• Team development and process improvement as we build our planning capabilities

What Type Of Person Will Be Successful
You're an experienced merchandise planner who thrives in fast-paced, entrepreneurial environments where adaptability and strategic thinking are essential. You bring strong analytical skills combined with commercial acumen, understanding that behind every number is a customer decision that impacts our clients mission.
Essential experience and skills:

• 3-5 years of merchandise planning experience, preferably in fashion retail or ecommerce
• Advanced Excel skills and experience with planning systems and forecasting tools
• Strong analytical abilities with experience in KPI analysis and performance reporting
• Proven collaboration skills working across buying, marketing, and operations functions

What will set you apart:

• Experience in high-growth or founder-led businesses where agility and innovation are valued Exposure to ecommerce planning, multi-channel inventory management, or promotional planning
• A proactive, solution-focused approach with the confidence to present insights to senior leadership
• Alignment with our values: collaborative spirit, customer obsession, financial accountability, and optimistic outlook
• If you've been curious about roles such as Merchandise Analyst, Buying Planner, Inventory Planner, or Demand Planner, we'd love to hear from you.

How To Apply
Ready to join a team that's passionate about building something extraordinary? We'd love to meet ambitious planning professionals who want to make their mark in a growing, innovative business.
Even if you don't tick every box above, we encourage you to apply - we value diverse experiences and fresh perspectives. We'll also consider you for other suitable opportunities that might arise as our client continues their exciting growth journey.

Assembly Talent Making belonging our business.
Assembly Talent pairs exceptional talent within exemplary businesses within the retail, eCommerce, beauty and lifestyle industries. Professional, personable and discreet, we're specialists in seeking, securing and supporting flourishing careers and company relationships. Our lived experience of over 20 years across the Retail, Fashion, eComm, tech, beauty, and FMCG landscape has helped us place sought-after candidates with leading and emerging brands both in Australia and abroad. Valuing culture-fit and chemistry on par with capabilities and credentials, our holistic recruitment strategy supports career aspirations and business acumen in equal measure.
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