Assortment Planner, Apparel & Accessories, Champs

(This hybrid position will be located at our Champs Office in St. Petersburg, FL (570 Carillon Pkwy, St. Petersburg, FL 33716). Expectations for hybrid in-office schedule is three days a week, typically Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday) Great brands reflect culture. The best ones help shape it. At Foot Locker, we’re rooted in sport, powered by style, and driven by the communities that move both. From Foot Locker and Kids Foot Locker to Champs Sports, WSS, and atmos, our brands sit at the intersection of sport, style, and self-expression. As part of the DICK’S Sporting Goods family, you’re backed by the resources, reach, and career opportunities of a world-class sports company. That unleashes Foot Locker to keep pushing forward with the agility and edge that define the brand. We’re looking for great people who want to influence culture and the generation that is shaping what’s next. Whether you’re building strategy, shaping innovations, or creating unforgettable customer moments, you’ll contribute to decisions and experiences that define our brands’ impact in the communities we serve. Come change the game with us. Apply today! Foot Locker, Inc. is hiring a Senior Manager of Assortment Planning to join our Champs Division for Apparel and Accessories! The Assortment Planner, Sr Manager is responsible for the development, delivery and on-going management of a profitable and productive clustered assortment that is aligned to our consumer preferences. By assorting with intent, the Assortment Planner will ensure the customer has a balance of brands, franchises, and mix of basics & fashion choices. In close partnership with buying, allocation, and financial planning, the assortment planning team is responsible for: Development of store assortments informed by business strategy and customer preference to determine the optimal assortment in each store location Providing customer choice count targets by brand/franchise using productivity metrics aligned to in-store merchandising guidelines Ensuring depth by style-color needed to achieve sales utilizing Rate of Sale plan and door tiering and clustering Adjusting assortment strategy in-season based on changes in business performance or inventory productivity, fashion trend, and store assortment capacity Driving customer experience in store and increasing NPS, while maximizing sales, margin, and sell-through rates The ideal candidate will have the following skills and abilities: Change Agent: enthusiastic about improving processes and ways of working and can champion change among the organization Strategic Thinker: connect the dots between functions, understand upstream and downstream implications of decisions, and intellectually curious Collaborative and Connected: know how to navigate the organization and can quickly follow up or escalate decisions to the right people and drive alignment Trusted: Others respect their decision-making and will trust they have made the right decisions in guiding assortments Detail Oriented: have no problem rolling up their sleeves and digging into the details of how things work or how decisions should be made Data Savvy: solid understanding of historical performance data as well as the pitfalls of relying too much on data alone Applicants must be currently authorized to work in the United States on a full-time basis. At this time, Foot Locker will not sponsor a new applicant for employment authorization or offer any immigration related support for this position (i.e. H1B, F-1 OPT, F-1 STEM OPT, F-1 CPT, J-1, TN, or another type of work authorization).

Build Optimized Assortments Lead end-to-end Assortment Planning process for area of responsibility from initial brand/franchise forecasting to go-to-market Develop pre-season assortment plan to support the merchandise strategy Apply assortment analytics, including rate-of-sale and door tiering, to the planning process Conduct analysis to support the creation of sku