Merchandise Planner I, Owned Brands

Who We Are

Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected, and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop, and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectful, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com

Our Ways of Working

We have team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees. 

We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships with team members in other cities, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.

What the Role Is

Babylist is seeking a Merchandise Planner, Owned Brands to join our growing E-Commerce team. As the Merchandise Planner, you will ensure our Babylist store inventory is available and assist with the planning of a highly curated assortment of baby apparel and gear. You are an analytical thinker who is passionate and excited about joining a fast-growing e-commerce business.

Who You Are

• You have 2-4 years in an inventory planning role
• You have been a key player in driving, defining, and executing to pre-season strategy
• You are able to navigate complex issues where analysis of situations requires data and an in-depth evaluation of multiple variable factors
• You have strong analytical skills and can interpret meaningful themes and trends from quantitative data
• You are a pro with inventory planning concepts, retail math, and best practices
• You are an Excel wizard, who can manipulate and analyze data to come up with actionable insights
• You are flexible and can adapt to changing priorities. You are able to find efficiencies and improvements to make existing processes more successful.
• You have strong communication skills and can work effectively with the entire team including merchandising, operations, and customer service
• You have a passion for e-commerce. You can be scrappy and are comfortable wearing many hats
• You thrive in a fast-paced high growth environment
• You have a four-year college degree or equivalent

How You Will Make An Impact

• Responsible for sales, gross margin, stock, and inventory turn goals for multiple categories within a division
• Review weekly sales performance, produce actionable insights, and pivot priorities as necessary
• Recap weekly/monthly performance with data and insights to present in team  meetings.\
• Participate in monthly vendor meetings-either one on one or as part of the team.
• Responsible for all replenishment planning & merchandise planning
• Forecast category/brand/SKU demand and optimize inventory and flow plans to maintain desired stock levels
• Create comprehensive quarterly hindsight reporting and recommend go-forward business strategies
• Suggest sku rationalization and any assortment edits
• Lead pre-season inventory strategy for your categories to create tops down and bottoms up plans based on assortment strategies
• Partner with Merchandising team to develop future product and inventory strategies
• Partner with key suppliers to ensure optimal inventory levels and provide forecasts as needed
• Focus on top volume/top registered SKUs to maximize revenue, in-stocks, and ensure a great experience for our users and customers
• Manage beginning to end order pipeline of goods and negotiate flow requirements with vendors
• Coordinate with the Operations team to ensure prompt deliveries and appropriate inbound flow planning
• Track out-of-stock or discontinued items with vendors and communicate to internal stakeholders
• Partner with Finance to reconcile vendor payments and invoicing as needed
• Recommend system, tool, and process improvement to drive efficiency
• Strategize new business process to drive financial goals and strategies

Why You Will Love Working At Babylist

• We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
• We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
• We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
• We believe technology and data can solve hard problems 
• We believe in exceptional management 
• We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
• We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
• We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
• We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning

Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location.