Native Shoes Looking for Senior Planner at Vancouver, BC Full Time

Remote within Canada

Native Shoes is a hybrid organization with a primarily remote team with the option to work from the office in Vancouver, when needed. This job will require the ability to work from home.

Why Native Shoes?

It seems the heavier the world gets, the more it needs lightness. At Native Shoes, we’ve made lightness our life’s work with our purpose: to make it easy for all to live lightly.

To achieve this, our team is an embodiment of our values:
Design: We consider aesthetics and functionality in all we do.

Possibility: We explore and achieve higher dreams by leaving constraints at the door.

Integrity: We do what we say we do.

Accountability: We take personal responsibility for our actions.

Love: Leading with kindness, we love those around us enough to have truthful conversations.

Light: Above all else, we choose to live lightly.

Native Shoes strives to embody each of these words in all aspects of our brand. We engage in a fast paced, ever-evolving working environment with plenty of room for innovative thinking — encouraging honesty and challenge in a comfortable workplace. If any of the above words resonate with you, this is the place to be.

Who is Native Shoes looking for?

We are on the lookout for Senior Planner to be a powerful voice in shaping, executing, and communicating on our strategic Ecommerce and Retail growth plans. Working alongside your partners in Product, Operations, Ecommerce, Retail, Finance and Sales, you will focus on maximizing sales and margin, while optimizing inventory plans. You are able to maintain a big picture point of view, while focusing on the details, supporting both long term and short term strategic thinking and execution.

Why should I apply?

You enjoy an innovative, fast paced, and dynamic culture, with a lot of opportunity for growth. You are passionate about business, and about creating a culture of creativity, fun, and excellence. Attention to detail is a strength, however you enjoy creating and collaborating on high level strategy in tandem.

What would I be responsible for?

Core Responsibilities

Create bottoms up plans at an item/category level, strategically highlighting opportunity and risk for each season that aligns with top-down financial plans

Partner with the head of planning to deliver a top-down sales plan on current and future seasons, highlighting areas of opportunity and aligning with the company’s 5-year growth plans

Build and maintain an optimized inventory plan to support sales plans across countries and channels

Create an Ecommerce and Retail buy plan during each buying cycle and partner with the Senior Supply Planner through execution

Collaborate with the product team, bringing analytics and product knowledge to support the creation of a merchandise plan for each season, balancing core demand with seasonal newness

Analyze and present weekly business recaps to leaders and cross functional partners, setting action plans and recommendations based on performance trends

Analyze size curve performance and adjust forecasts based on future demand

Strategic Cross Functional Responsibilities

Be a powerful voice in Ecommerce and Retail performance to cross functional partners such as Sales, Finance, Digital Marketing, and Operations, bringing analytical insights to support and drive decision making

Partner with Sales and Marketing to create seasonal strategic sale events, setting pricing and margin targets and staying on top of shifting demand

Team up with the Ecommerce and Retail sales teams to drive business KPI’s such as traffic, conversion, and AOV, being able to speak to the connection between financial sales goals and these metrics

Be a strategic thinking partner to the Digital Marketing team, combining our product strategy with marketing plans during in season execution and during pre-season planning

Preferred Experience

5+ years of Merchandise Planning in Ecommerce or Retail

Bachelor’s Degree in economics, business, finance or equivalent

Experience with e-commerce is a big asset

Proven ability to learn new processes, systems, and programs easily

Experience in working with multiple cross functional teams in executing unified strategic goals

Experienced in telling stories with data, being able to draw actionable insights

Preferred Skills

High level of Excel capability, especially in using large sets of data

Influential in strategic thinking approach

Strong financial business planning acumen with a high level of understanding and experience with retail math and retail financial analysis

Pro active and great at leading self and leading others

Effective communication skills