Remote Replenishment Planner

Summary

Join Babylist's growing E-Commerce team as a Replenishment Planner to ensure optimal inventory levels and products are in stock when our users need it. As the Replenishment Planner, you will manage inventory replenishment of a highly curated assortment and collaborate with planning counterparts and operational partners in forecasting and inventory optimization to support divisional business strategies.

Requirements

• At least 2 years of experience with Replenishment Planning
• Strong analytical skills and can interpret meaningful themes and trends from quantitative data
• Pro with inventory planning concepts, retail math, and best practices
• Able to navigate complex issues where analysis of situations requires data and an in-depth evaluation of multiple variable factors
• Excel wizard, who can manipulate and analyze data to come up with actionable insights
• Flexible and able to adapt to changing priorities. Able to find efficiencies and improvements to make existing processes more successful
• Organized and able to handle a large volume of communication between vendors and the Babylist teams
• Passion for e-commerce. Able to be scrappy and comfortable wearing many hats
• Thrive in a fast-paced, high-growth environment
• Four-year college degree or equivalent

Responsibilities

• Responsible for driving sales and profits through replenishment strategies and stock level optimization
• Determine order quantities by SKU based on historical sales, current inventory levels, and go forward plan to maintain optimal weeks of supply
• Work closely with the Merchant and Planning teams on strategy and inventory levels
• Review and report on weekly/monthly/quarterly performance and KPIs (WOS, In-Stock Rates, fill rates), produce actionable insights, and pivot priorities as necessary
• Proactively communicate inventory/supply chain concerns as related to forecasted sales
• Create seasonal profiles to inform future forecasting and replenishment strategies
• Partner with vendors to ensure optimal inventory levels and PO fill rates
• Participate and contribute to monthly OTB - communicate inventory forecasts as a contribution to the divisional and overall OTB, identify and communicate inventory risks
• Execute seasonal and promotional buys as needed
• Communicate effectively between vendors, merchants, and planners on all purchase order issues and inventory out of stocks or concerns
• Recommend assortment edits based on inventory productivity and/or challenges
• Partner with Supply Chain Operations on purchase order concerns and freight optimization
• Recommend tool and process improvements to drive efficiency
• Partner with Finance to reconcile vendor payments and invoicing as needed

Benefits

• Company paid medical, dental, and vision insurance
• Generous paid parental leave policy
• 401k with company match