<p>Manager, Company Planning</p> <p>About Us:</p> <p>vineyard vines is a highly successful, privately held, American clothing and accessory retailer founded in 1998 on Martha's Vineyard by brothers, Shep & Ian Murray. With Shep & Ian still at the helm today, vineyard vines has experienced exponential year over year growth and now operates over 120 retail locations including an outlet division, a successful e-commerce business, domestic distribution center, and expanding corporate headquarters. In addition, vineyard vines is carried in major department stores such as Nordstrom and Bloomingdales as well as numerous specialty boutiques across the US.</p> <p>vineyard vines was founded on a state of mind that Every day should feel this good. You don't need to be on a beach, by the ocean or on vacation to have Every day should feel this good moments. It's a state of mind that we all experience, and one where everyone is invited. At vineyard vines, we don't just live an #EDSFTG life away from our desks-we bring it to work with us, too.</p> <p>Whether in our stores, at our Harbor Drive headquarters, our company culture is fun, encouraging and welcoming to all. We work hard and play harder, and we never take ourselves too seriously. And while we have many company goals, our number one priority is making vineyard vines a great place to work for all employees.</p> <p>Our team is our family, and we'd never have grown to where we are today without them.</p> <p>We're committed to building an inclusive team across all channels, departments and stores within our community. We hope you'll join us and see what the smiling pink whale is all about.</p> <p>Key Responsibilities:</p> <ul> <li>Develop a daily forecast for the year for all channels, and company roll up including Sales, GM, KPIs, and Full Price (FP) vs Markdown (MD). </li><li>Daily updates to the forecast including updating the balance of the current month </li><li>Perform promotion analysis based on records of FP and MD promotions over the last three years, and a menu of how they perform in Sales, GM and metrics by channel </li><li>Identify Promo overlaps in the future forecast two quarters in advance </li><li>Estimate projections of planned promotions </li><li>Lead the hindsight on promotions at a sales, GM, and KPI level. </li><li>Perform Inventory projections (company planning will have an independent forecast of inventory levels, based on their forecast) </li><li>Set targets for EOQ inventory levels, both FP and NFP </li><li>Provide the preseason budget for Sales, GM, KPI's, BOP, Receipts, Available Inv, Cost, Units, AUC, IMU and Discount Rate. </li><li>Support the development of Long Range Planning. This includes the creation of Sales, GM, KPI's, and Inventory projections for the next 3 years. Work to develop multiple scenarios (High, Mid, Low) adjusting with various inputs (product growth factors, real estate changes, marketing impacts, promotional changes etc) </li><li>Scenario planning- support various scenario analysis as they arise (Tariff impacts, Port Strikes etc- macro impacts to the business as example) </li></ul> <p>What you bring:</p> <ul> <li>Possess a higher level understanding of financial measurements: sales, gross margin, weeks of supply, inventory turn, sell through, including all KPI's and how to impact them. </li><li>Forecast accuracy: experience in developing forecasts, improving accuracy, explaining variances </li><li>Cross functional partnership: ability to gather information, collaborate on solutions, align on targets, and provide recommendations to cross functional partners </li><li>Organizational skills are essential as well as the ability to multitask and work on multiple projects simultaneously to meet deadlines </li><li>Ability to negotiate with and influence peers, members of a cross-functional team, and management </li><li>Strong time management, prioritization, and organizational skills </li><li>Passion for the vineyard vines brand! </li></ul> <p>Every-day Will Feel This Good Because:</p> <ul> <li>We have a fun-spirited entrepreneurial culture filled with truly "good" people </li><li>We have flexible working hours and work from home days to accommodate your personal life </li><li>We offer a generous employee discount so you can rep our lifestyle on-and-off the boat </li><li>We offer a competitive salary package, 401-K, commuter benefits, and paid-family leave, health savings , flex spending accounts, life & disability insurance </li><li>We have an onsite gym as well as health & financial wellness programs to keep you active </li><li>We offer 2 summer Fridays to take off in addition to a competitive vacation policy & holiday calendar </li></ul>