FULLBEAUTY Brands™ is the premier fashion and lifestyle destination for the plus size customer. We are an online and catalog marketplace offering a curated collection of the finest family of plus size brands and thousands of products.

POSITION SUMMARY:

At Eloquii, our vision is to be the most innovative, culturally impactful, and best known cult-status brand in the world. We inspire positive change through the transformative power of fashion. We commit to a workplace and culture where diversity is valued, where all associates have a voice that matters equally and have equal opportunities to succeed. Eloquii is a brand that serves customers sizes 14 and above; inclusivity is central to our identity and requires the investment and commitment of every member of the Eloquii team. As the Planning Manager, you will be the strategist to help leverage the scale and access of the Eloquii brand to truly impact our business growth, profitability, and efficiencies.

PRIMARY RESPONSIBILITIES:

• Category/Item Forecasting: Performs all financial forecasting at the department/category/item level where needed using data-driven analytics, trend insights, and business intelligence to project future results. Partners with cross-functional team on inputs to forecast and shares output to drive alignment on sales expectations and inventory flow. Understands implications of trend to each metric and can guide teammates on actions to improve results.Fully owns end-to-end forecasts for Core/Reorder items, including sales, inventory flows and size breaks for purchase orders.
• Business Management Decision Support: Assess the health of the business and seek root-cause of opportunities. Generate data-driven recommendations to improve customer and financial outcomes. Socialize findings and ideas to cross-functional team to steer decisions that impact the P&L.
• Budgeting: Develops and makes recommendations on department, category and subcategory financial targets quarterly. Notate and convey business intelligence pertaining to future category performance. Plans receipts and sku count recommendations to cross-functional team in order to support the financial targets.
• Financial Updates and Reporting: Own and build weekly, monthly and ad-hoc financial reporting for all channels, highlighting business drivers, opportunities, key action plans, and timelines. Provides key event analysis and quarterly hindsight to frame go-forward strategies.Leads cross-functional business strategy discussions on a bi-weekly basis.
• Inventory Management: Build and maintain bottoms-up sell-through forecasts by collection, partnering with the merchant team to evaluate the productivity of carryover and new choices on a weekly basis, recommending promotional and markdown strategies to effectively managing inventory turn. Manage the open-to-buy process to drive business productivity and profitability.

You’ll make an impact through…

• Omni Channel Customer Focus: Consistently makes customer-centric recommendations and business decisions across scope of responsibility. Understands customer behavior across channels, or within relevant channels (for example, demand trends, buying behaviors, consumption patterns around SKUs). Anticipates customer trends and influences demand through deep understanding of customer needs and depth of category vision.
• Data and Digital Acumen: Leverages data analysis tools to explore multi-faceted financial data. Develops and tests hypotheses. Builds and presents insights using visualization tools to influence decisions and steer financial performance.
• Strategic Perspective: Leverages insights sourced from data, business intelligence and customer trends to influence strategic direction of categories. Establish a connection between qualitative strategy and quantitative impact. Share findings and perspective to relevant stakeholders to ensure informed decisions within scope of ownership

MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 5-7 years of experience in a similar role in either Inventory Planning, Merchandise Planning or Demand Planning
• Strong analytical skills and business acumen; ability to use data to derive critical and meaningful insights into business performance and opportunities
• Self-starter with experience applying business results and metrics to drive action plans that encourage growth and mitigate risks
• Ability to develop collaborative relationships with key partners to drive quality decisions

WHY JOIN FULLBEAUTY?

• Competitive Health Benefits (Medical, Dental & Vision)
• Employer HSA Contribution
• 401K Match
• Employee Assistance Program
• Hybrid Work Schedule (Corporate)
• Business Casual Attire
• Wellness Initiatives
• 30% Associate Merchandise Discount Across our Family of Brands
• Employee Discount on Travel, Cell Phone Plans and More
• Generous Paid Time Off Program
• Promote From Within Culture
• Commitment to Being an Equal Opportunity Employer
• Life Insurance Benefits
• Internal charity that supports FULLBEAUTY Brands’ associates and their immediate family members during times of extreme hardship

FULLBEAUTY Brands™ is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, age, national origin, sexual orientation, gender identity, disability or protected veteran status.