Company Inventory Planner

Company Inventory Planner 

About us:   

vineyard vines is a highly successful, privately held, American clothing and accessory retailer founded in 1998 on Martha’s Vineyard by brothers, Shep & Ian Murray. With Shep & Ian still at the helm today, vineyard vines has experienced exponential year over year growth and now operates over 120 retail locations including an outlet division, a successful e-commerce business, domestic distribution center, and expanding corporate headquarters. In addition, vineyard vines is carried in major department stores such as Nordstrom and Bloomingdales as well as numerous specialty boutiques across the US.    

vineyard vines was founded on a state of mind that Every day should feel this good.   

You don’t need to be on a beach, by the ocean or on vacation to have Every day should feel this good moments. It’s a state of mind that we all experience, and one where everyone is invited. At vineyard vines, we don’t just live an #EDSFTG life away from our desks—we bring it to work with us, too.    

In our stores, at our Harbor Drive headquarters or working remotely, our company culture is fun, encouraging and welcoming to all. We work hard and play harder, and we never take ourselves too seriously. And while we have many company goals, our number one priority is making vineyard vines a great place to work for all employees.    

Our team is our family, and we’d never have grown to where we are today without them.   

We’re committed to building an inclusive team across all channels, departments and stores within our community. We hope you’ll join us and see what the smiling pink whale is all about 

Overview: 

The Company Inventory Planner is responsible for forecasting and managing our Global Platforming Core programs, managing our Company Available to Sell and internal divisional transfers, as well as our Sell off inventory.  Working cross functionally with Planning, Operations, and Finance this individual will play a key role in managing our shared inventory projects.

Key Responsibilities:

• Monthly Platforming Management
  • Present “rolling 12 month view” of Company Core Programs in Open to Buy
  • Create projections 22 months out @ a high level
  • Provide projections to Production to share with vendors for fabric and trim placement
  • Provide communication to panners or upcoming projections for Rolling Forecast
  • Tops down analysis to cross check bottoms up assumptions
  • Determine platforming opportunities and liabilities
  • Develop reporting to inform Executive Leadership on a monthly basis
• End of Season Liability Sell off
  • Manage end of season or liability forecasts
  • Produce quarterly recaps for Finance and accounting for quarterly accrual
  • Provide weekly analysis and recaps for Executive Leadership on Sell off inventory and disposition
  • Work cross functionally to execute sell off seamlessly
  • Drive Cross Functional meetings to guide process and capture hindsight within our scorecard each quarter to continuously improve our process
• Transfers
  • Manage our company Available to Sell inventory working with Wholesale planning and operations
  • Manage and project divisional transfers weekly to ensure we are maximizing our current opportunities
  • Execute end of season transfers to maximize our profits before we sell off liabilities

Every-day will feel this good because:

• We have a fun-spirited entrepreneurial culture filled with truly "good" people
• We have flexible working hours and work from home days to accommodate your personal life
• We offer a generous employee discount so you can rep our lifestyle on-and-off the boat
• We offer a competitive salary package, 401-K, commuter benefits, and paid-family leave, health savings, flex spending accounts, life & disability insurance
• We have an onsite gym as well as health & financial wellness programs to keep you active
• We offer 2 summer Fridays to take off in addition to a competitive vacation policy & holiday calendar