Meeting/Event Planner jobs in Trenton, NJ

SNIPES Planner

Hybrid

Bensalem, PA

We live sneakers, streetwear, and neighborhood culture! All Day! Every Day!

With more than 750 stores in Europe and the USA, SNIPES is one of the leading sneaker and streetwear retailers worldwide. Since opening its first store in Essen, Germany in 1998, SNIPES has been an integral part of street culture and is constantly growing thanks to its proximity to the community and regular openings worldwide.

At SNIPES, everything revolves around youth culture. In stores and online at snipes.com and snipesusa.com, our community finds a wide range of internationally renowned sneakers and apparel brands for the latest fits from head to toe. We dive deep into subcultures, sponsor some of the biggest hip-hop festivals, events, and sports teams throughout the world to stay close to our community and keep our deep roots in the global street culture community. Therefore, we work closely with key figures from the scene like DJ Khaled our Chief Creative Officer. But whether it’s sponsorships or developing grassroots projects – we prioritize giving back to the community in everything we do.

SNIPES has always kept an ear to the streets to create a meaningful impact in the communities we serve. Through our community program “SNIPES serves” and its localized approach we support the needs of our communities, empower, and celebrate our dynamic culture.

Overview: As a Planner you will be responsible for creating and managing sales and inventory financial plans at a department, class, brand, and style level. Planners are responsible for analyzing, identifying, and communicating sales opportunities and providing risk-mitigating recommendations. You will partner with the Buying team to develop and execute business strategies and seasonal plans to maximize sales and profits in accordance with corporate goals.

Responsibilities:

• Pre-Season Financial Planning
  • Develop sales and inventory plans that meet target KPIs.
  • Plan units – sales, receipts, inventory.
  • Create vendor plans that align with divisional targets.
  • Create ladders.
  • Assist with key analysis to improve the assortment planning decision-making process through collaboration with buying/planning/allocation.
• In-Season Annual/Monthly/Weekly Financial Planning

• Forecast sales, markdowns, receipts, IMU, gross margin using established sales trends/targets.
• Manage the financial success of the department by meeting sales, margin and turn objectives.

• Summarize performance vs plan at class, vendor, and style level. Collaborate with Buyer to create an action plan.
• Collaborate with Buyers and Allocators to determine and manage exit strategies by recommending styles for markdowns and controlling aged inventory.
• Open-to-Buy management.
• Quarterly hindsight’s.
• Lead the weekly Cross Functional team meeting.