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Gap Inc. has opening in San Francisco, CA for: 

Job Title: Merchandise Planner 

Job ID:R194757

Salary Range: $87,420/year - $131,700/year

Job Description: Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities with short- and long-term business results across the division and department. Monitors performance vs. plan and forecast to executes prudent exceptions outside of plan analytics and forecast logic.  Makes flexible and responsive inventory recommendations and executes swiftly based on insights from customer, product, market, and financial data. Utilize various tops-down and bottoms-up forecasts, inventory rebalancing, and pricing processes to act on hits and misses to maximize business results.  Create monthly Financial Forecast to reposition sales trend and inventory actions. Recommend pricing strategies to maximize yield management to exceed set goals. Identify Marketing opportunities based on inventory ownership. Manage Vendor Manage Inventory Product thru strong collaboration across multiple functions. Create preseason sales, gross margin, and inventory for category and identify opportunity in every style and channel. Presents financial strategies to drive sales growth. Develop and maintain effective working relationships with members of cross functional team (Merchandising, Visual, Production, Distribution, Planning and Company Planning), setting expectations around prioritization and best practices around key deliverables.

REQUIREMENTS: Bachelor’s degree in Business, Analytics, Finance, Supply Chain, or related field and three (3) years of experience in retail merchandise planning.  

SKILLS: Experience and/or education must include:

1. Data Analytics: Analyze historical data and current trends to identify risks and opportunities by division and department;

2. Asset Management: Reconciliation of Receipts, Tops/Down Bottoms Up Plans, and assistance in Vendor Managed Inventory; and

3. Checkbook, Planning and Forecasting Tools, Krypton, PETE GPR

4. Retail math, business acumen and understanding of supply chain management;

5. Financial Forecast to build Long Range Budget Plans using MFP in Anaplan;

6. Forecasting skills with ability to connect inventory needs, historical sales, and market trends;

7. Organization skills to manage multiple deliverables; 

8. Microsoft Excel and NOVA with ability to analyze large data sets and draw presentable conclusions

9. Knowledge of the following systems: Anaplan, Enterprise Planning, PETE Applications (Assortment, Planning, Pricing and Forecasting), PowerBi, MicroStrategy, Adobe Analytics, PowerReviews, EDW, Essbase, E2Open, MIRO and other web-based data services. 

OTHER: Job Site: 2 Folsom Street, San Francisco, California 94105; 40 hours per week; $87,420/year - $131,700/year 

CONTACT:Please reference job R194757 and apply online at

https://www.gapinc.com/en-us/careers/gap-careers