Associate Planner

3 days ago


Bengaluru, Karnataka, India Target Full time ₹ 9,00,000 - ₹ 12,00,000 per year

About us:
Target is an iconic brand, a Fortune 50 company and one of America's leading retailers.

Target Merchandising is evolving at an incredible pace. We are constantly reimagining how this $100 billion retailer offers the innovative, guest-inspiring items that Target is known and loved for. Our goal is to deliver exceptional value, quality and style to elevate Target as the premier retailer in a competitive global marketplace. Through intelligent and progressive business strategies that make the most of Target's resources and partnerships worldwide, merchandising works across product categories to create a localized shopping experience online and in our 1900 stores. Are you a creative problem solver who loves to see your work translate into real results? Can you collaborate effectively, execute a plan efficiently and positively influence how Target chooses and presents the right product in the right place at the right price? If so, you will have success on one of our dynamic teams.

A role in Planning means being in charge of the financials and forecasting for one of Target's businesses. Here, you will conduct comparative analysis of business results and trends to provide insights that inform the Inventory team's work to ensure that product supports projected sales. Acting as the hub between Merchandising and Supply Chain, you will create a financial link between these two essential groups and have a voice in some of the most important decisions from a financial strategy standpoint.

As an Associate Planner, you will develop the business strategies that ensure product availability and profitable sales. Your work will make a positive impact by analyzing category results and identifying insights and opportunities across key financial metric including sales, margin and ROI. You will determine item-level investments to support category financial plans as a part of pre-season vendor commitments. Through business analysis and clustering, you will help identify segmentation opportunities to drive localization strategies. Previous experience in planning/ FP&A (in retail) & inventory management Your skills will support strategic decisions about how we forecast sales and inventory needs to deliver guests with the products they want most.

Core responsibilities are described within this job description. Job duties may change at any time due to business needs.
 

About you:

  • Three/Four-year degree or MBA(Operations) or CA(partial / completed)
  • 2-5 years of relevant experience
  • Ability to communicate clearly and effectively
  • Excellent verbal and communication skills & analytical and problem-solving skills
  • Strong planning and organizational skills
  • Ability to work well within varying degrees of ambiguity.
  • Proficiency with excel and VBA.
  • Work experience with SQL for data extraction.
  • Working experience with Python Or R is good to have.

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