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About: Macy’s is proudly America’s Department Store. For more than 160 years, Macy’s has served generations at every stage of their lives. Customers come to us for fashion, value and celebration. Macy’s Merchandising curates the best national and private brands to support our customer’s self-expression from off-price to luxury. Merchandising ensures Macy's is the premier fashion authority using a high acumen for products and trends as well as strong relationships with vendors in the marketplace. Our team maximizes sales and gross margin for each product category by identifying, procuring, and assorting the products that our customers demand. Do you have an eye for products and trends? Join Macy’s Merchandising and create connections that surprise and delight our customers at every turn. Job Overview: The Director of Planning for Backstage will manage and execute the planning, placement, and fulfillment processes. This position will have responsibility for merchandise plans, location plans, inventory and productivity. Planners work in close collaboration with their buying counterpart to drive sales and achieve margin goals. Essential Functions:

Develop seasonal departmental and class pre-season plans for sales, margin and turn/wos to deliver company goals in collaboration with key business partners. Develop monthly departmental and class pre-season plans for sales, markdowns, receipts, markups, gross margin, stock, aur and all financial metrics, recommending actions to achieve targets. Convert retail plans into units. Develop store plans in units and dollars. Create unit need and feed into open to ship by location. Revise in-season operating plans through the official monthly rolling operating forecast process as well as the weekly open to buy process for all financial metrics. Manage and communicate risks to sales, stock and margin with recommended actions. Revise in-season store forecasts and update the open to ship unit needs. Manage the basic item replenishments. Perform historical business review including sales, gross margin, price, markdowns, turn/wos, aur, etc. Develop recommendations for Buyers based on historical analysis. Identify deficient or overstock stores’ inventories, provide solutions, and suggest actions for markdowns, cancels, additional or special buys and other changes to ongoing business needs. Build and Develop Talent to prepare for the next level

4 Year / Bachelors Degree 4 + Years Experience Practices open and continuous communication, values keeping others informed, effectively presenting information in a clear, concise manner. Excellent leadership, facilitation, and interpersonal skills, with the ability to work across functional lines and at many levels. Ability to think creatively, strategically and technically Ability to work a flexible schedule based on department and Company needs. Knowledge of MS Office computer programs are required This role involves performing essential job functions such as communication, collaboration, and use of office and computer systems. Responsibilities include the ability to access and review written and electronic information, and to move within the work environment and interact with workplace materials as needed to carry out job responsibilities.

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