Associate Director, Merchandise Planning
Required skills
- Inventory Planning
- Sales Forecasting
- Open-to-Buy
- Financial Planning
- Demand Planning
- BI Tools
- System Implementation
- Team Leadership
- Retail Math
- Excel
Nice to have
- Attribute-Based Planning
- Commodity Inventory Planning
- AI-Assisted Tools
- Prompt Engineering
- NetSuite
- ERP
Role summary
Brilliant Earth seeks an Associate Director of Merchandise Planning to lead its Inventory Planning function. This role involves owning sales and inventory forecasts, open-to-buy processes, and inventory strategy across all categories. The position requires building and evolving planning capabilities, partnering with Technology and Merchandising on new tools, and enhancing analytical standards. Key responsibilities include setting inventory strategy for fine jewelry, leading planning for new showroom launches, and contributing to financial budgets. The role also entails driving the Inventory Planning roadmap, managing system implementations, and leveraging AI tools for automation. Team leadership, coaching, and mentoring are crucial, as is representing Planning to executive leadership. The ideal candidate has 10+ years of experience in merchandise/inventory planning, forecasting, or quantitative analysis within retail or e-commerce, with demonstrated team leadership success. Expertise in Excel, demand planning software, and BI tools is essential, as is experience with system implementations and AI-assisted tools.
Associate Director, Merchandise Planning
Brilliant Earth is searching for an Associate Director, Merchandise Planning to lead our Inventory Planning function and the team behind it. Reporting to the Senior Director of Merchandising, you'll own forecasting, open-to-buy, and inventory strategy across every category and function, as well as the roadmap that takes our planning capabilities to the next level. This is a builder's role as much as a planner's: our planning infrastructure is actively evolving, and you'll set the direction, partner with Technology and Merchandising to implement new tools, and raise the analytical bar for the whole team.
You'll build planning approaches that work for attribute-based, specification-driven assortments while holding the line on turn, in-stock, and margin. We have a social and environmental mission at the core of our company, and we're looking for someone excited to deliver exceptional business results while helping us advance it.
What You'll Do:
Inventory Strategy and Forecasting
Open-to-Buy and Financial Planning
Planning Systems and Process
Team Leadership and Partnership
What You Bring:
What We Offer:
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More About Us
At Brilliant Earth, our mission is to cultivate a more transparent, sustainable, compassionate, & inclusive jewelry industry. We believe in creating jewelry you can feel good about wearing, without ever compromising between quality and conscience. We are hard-working team players that welcome challenges and rise to any occasion. Our community of collaboration, respect and encouragement is fostered by frequent team events, cross-departmental meetings and celebrating our wins, big and small. As one of the fastest growing e-commerce jewelers in the world, we're searching for bright and passionate people who are excited to make an impact from day one and grow with the company to take on greater responsibility over time.
Brilliant Earth recognizes the value of diversity and inclusion on our team, as we work together to reinvent fine jewelry in a thoughtful and modern way. At Brilliant Earth, we celebrate each other – our successes, the lessons along the way, and the unique perspectives each individual brings to our team. It is our intent to maintain a work environment and hiring process which is free of harassment or discrimination because of sex, race, religion, color, national origin, physical or mental disability, genetic information, marital status, age, sexual orientation, gender identity, military service, veteran status, or any other status protected by Federal, State or local laws. We are committed to complying with all Federal, State and local laws providing Equal Employment Opportunities, and all other employment laws and regulations.
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