About the role
What You’ll Do
- Partner with suppliers (and senior planners) to support exclusivity plans for your SKU portfolio, including volume thresholds, feasibility checks, and milestone tracking.
- Where full exclusivity is not achievable, help identify product‑level differentiation or next‑best supplier options in alignment with Merchants.
- Monitor pricing, availability (CG and DS), merchandising quality, and performance marketing signals across your portfolio.
- Surface issues (e.g., uncompetitive pricing, low availability, PLA gaps, unfindable status) and follow through with suppliers and cross‑functional partners to resolve them.
- Track and maintain SKU health metrics including violations, reviews, incidents, speed, and returns.
- Use customer feedback and incident data to identify root causes and propose corrective actions.
- Execute against Merchandising Vault requests on your SKUs, ensuring changes are intentional, aligned to strategy, and performance‑driving.
- Run and lead supplier business reviews
- Lead regular supplier assortment reviews to ensure supplier alignment across Verified, SRB & Foundational brand priorities.
- Ensure pre‑launch requirements (e.g., WSC, imagery, reviews pipeline, advertising commitments) are captured and tracked.
- Monitor early performance and inventory signals and escalate risks quickly.
- Work closely with Merchants, SRMs, SIMs, and Retail Planning & Allocation to ensure items in your portfolio hit agreed goals.
- Contribute to continuous improvement of tools, processes, and reporting used by the Curation Planning team.
What You’ll Need
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Economics, Supply Chain, Mathematics, or related field, or equivalent practical experience.
- 0–3 years of experience in retail, e‑commerce, buying, merchandising, planning, analytics, or supplier management.
- Strong analytical skills and comfort working with data to identify trends, issues, and opportunities.
- High ownership and attention to detail, with the ability to manage a portfolio of SKUs and keep metrics, documentation, and supplier data accurate.
- Clear, concise communication skills (written and verbal) and comfort presenting data‑driven insights to internal stakeholders and suppliers.
- Demonstrated ability to follow through in ambiguity, re‑prioritize as new information emerges, and maintain momentum toward goals.
- Collaborative mindset; motivated by building something new and contributing to a small, high‑impact team.
- Willingness to quickly adopt new AI tools and implement in workstreams
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