Wholesale Planner

Founded in 1984, Free People (www.FreePeople.com) is a boutique women’s fashion label that operates ecommerce, retail, and wholesale businesses.  Free People is the fastest growing URBN brand and has a vibrant ecommerce platform including web, mobile and a newly released iPhone app.  Free People is frequently recognized as an industry leader from a technical, creative and innovative perspective.   Free People’s retail business includes over 100 boutique stores and its Wholesale business includes over 1,400 specialty boutiques and department stores across the globe. Free People is an inspiring shopping experience for the stylish, confident, and curious young woman who appreciates our distinctive assortment of apparel and accessories.

• Manage all planning for the following Accounts/Areas, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale's, Shopbop, International, and Specialty
• Responsible for creating and maintaining six month flows
• Obtain and enter weekly sales and stock data as well as monthly sales and stock by door
• Compile and create competitive market share reports based on sales
• Responsible for suggesting reccomendations to increase store performance based on sales to stock ratios by account
• Produce reports on an as needed basis using both financial data and unit selling data to analyze the business
• Manage Department Store recaps; selling by classification, style, color, and highlight best sellers
• Reccomend percentage breakouts to be used by merchandise team to aid in achieving increased sales and sell through % and to drive profit
• Assist in the process of maintaining the receipt flow working with Account Executives to manage receipts, product pull ups and push outs
• Make weekly reccomendations to Account Executives
• Manage monthly markdown cadence
• Furnish inventory reports by style to the sales team for use as a tool in achieving profit expectations
• Responsible for running profitability on the season