Grocery Outlet - Emeryville, CA
posted 2 months ago
As an Assistant Planner at Grocery Outlet, you will play a crucial role in managing the distribution of merchandise to support the company's strategic plans. This position is highly hands-on, requiring quick decision-making and effective management of key warehouse and planning relationships. You will be responsible for providing accurate inventory information for your assigned departments, ensuring that product inventories at all stores are optimized to facilitate optimum code life, minimize seasonal markdowns, and maximize inventory turns. Your role will involve recommending and executing changes as necessary to enhance profitability and productivity across the board. In this fast-paced environment, you will be expected to understand and execute the appropriate distribution of products to stores, thereby maximizing store turns and profitability. You will implement the company's "Treasure Hunt" philosophy and merchandise assortment strategy through effective execution of product allocation to stores. Analyzing store-level data to identify trends at the chain, region, and store levels will be a key part of your responsibilities, allowing you to recommend and implement changes as appropriate. You will also execute seasonal distributions in accordance with the direction provided by the planning and purchasing teams, manage items approaching expiration in the warehouse, and address slower-moving items on the Aged report. Your role will require you to build and maintain effective working relationships within a cross-functional team, including District Sales Managers, the Planning Department, the Purchasing Department, and store personnel. You will participate in cross-functional meetings, contributing to distribution strategies and reviewing in-stock positions with planners and buyers on a weekly basis. Your analytical skills will be essential as you present analytics and reports to various levels of management, demonstrating logical analysis and problem-solving skills through organization and prioritization. Additionally, you will assist buyers with updates on potential inventory or code date issues and execute profitable entrance and exit strategies for new, seasonal, and replacement programs. Store and warehouse visits may be necessary to ensure effective execution of your responsibilities.