Category Planning Manager

🕒 May 29

⛰️ Colorado, Utah, +1 more states – Remote

⛰️ Colorado – Remote ⛷️ Utah – Remote 🦬 Wyoming – Remote

💵 $70k - $85k / year

⏰ Full Time

🟡 Mid-level

🟠 Senior

👔 Manager

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Stio

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51 - 200 employees

Founded 2011

👥 B2C

👗 Fashion

🛒 Retail

B2C • Fashion • Retail

Stio is a brand that designs and sells high-performance outdoor apparel for men, women, and kids. Founded by Stephen Sullivan, the company offers a wide range of clothing, footwear, and accessories suitable for various outdoor activities such as skiing, snowboarding, hiking, running, biking, fishing, and paddling. Based in the mountains, their collections focus on both functionality and style, catering to lifestyle needs and challenging outdoor environments. Stio also engages in collaborative projects with other brands and prioritizes environmental stewardship and the renewal of used apparel through its Stio Second Turn initiative.

📋 Description

• Develops and drives pre-season, item-level sales and inventory plans that align with historical performance, merchandising strategies and financial targets. • Re-Forecast item level plans in season and perform ad hoc analysis to identify inventory risks or opportunities. Ensure alignment with tops-down, monthly forecast and channel level goals • Recap and analyze monthly actuals to plan and LY. Present key takeaways and recommended action plans monthly to cross-functional team • Prepare the deck and present category strategies in OTB meetings • Partner with Product on the line creation and provide analytics as needed to ensure seasonal line will hit financial and KPI targets • Build and execute style, color, size purchasing for categories to support all channels • Develop pricing and markdown strategies to maximize sales and margin, while meeting sell through targets. Partner with Inventory Planner to execute • Manage inventory availability across sales channels for their categories. Coordinate with marketing and channel owners for inventory optimization • Maintain SKU Master including new SKU creation and lifecycle management • Look for ways to continuously improve current processes, tools and meetings • Actively partner cross functionally to drive shared business goals and key outcomes • Commitment to our company Mission, Vision, and Values

🎯 Requirements

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, engineering, economics, operations management, or equivalent. • 4+ years of experience in planning, finance, or supply chain analysis • Possess a clear understanding of financial measurements including sales, gross margin, return rate, months on hand, sell through, turn rate, and how to positively impact these metrics • Excellent analytical skills and the ability to translate analytical findings into actionable recommendations and processes. • Excellent computer skills, including advanced Excel (pivot tables, charts, logical functions (sumif, vlookup, etc.) • Experience with planning software is required; Toolio preferred • Strong critical thinking and problem-solving skills along with curiosity to continually drive for results and process improvement. • Must be dependable, team player, organized, self-motivated and detail oriented. • High energy and results oriented. Looking to make improvements and change. • Willingness and ability to take on a wide array of ad-hoc reporting and analysis requests. • Proven ability to prioritize and focus to deliver timely work. • Outstanding communication and interpersonal abilities.

🏖️ Benefits

• Medical, Dental Vision plans • Company Paid Long Term Disability • Employee Assistance Programs • 401k with Match • Generous paid time off policies • Gear test, perks and more