BI Transformation Merchandiser Planner - Luxury Brand!

Our client, a luxury brand based in NYC, is looking for a BI Transformation Merchandiser Planner to join their team on a temp basis!

RESPONSIBILITIES

• Act as a key business delivery partner for the implementation and launch of new Anaplan Planning Apps for US Fashion Merchandise Planning.
• Partner closely with Merchandise Planning, Finance, Retail, Supply Chain, Technology, global teams, and external implementation resources to drive alignment, delivery progress, and business readiness.
• Translate business needs into clear functional requirements, user stories, process flows, planning hierarchies, reporting specifications, business rules, and acceptance criteria.
• Support validation of solution design and outputs to ensure planning tools are practical, intuitive, and aligned to US business processes, planning calendars, metrics, workflows, and decision-making routines.
• Coordinate business-side launch readiness activities, including UAT, data validation, defect triage, business sign-off, user access, training, communications, cutover planning, and post-launch hyper care.
• Maintain visibility to launch criteria, critical dependencies, open risks, decisions, and defects; escalate promptly and constructively when delivery or readiness is at risk.
• Support change-management activities for new tools, enhancements, and process changes

Qualifications

• 6–8+ years of relevant experience in business solutions, merchandise planning, buying, forecasting, retail analytics, business intelligence, technology project delivery, process transformation, or a related field.
• Bachelor’s degree required.
• Demonstrated experience supporting an enterprise technology, planning, reporting, analytics, or data initiative from requirements and design through testing, launch, and post-launch stabilization.
• Experience supporting business-side delivery activities, including requirements gathering, process mapping, user stories, acceptance criteria, UAT, defect management, launch readiness, cutover coordination, and business sign-off.
• Experience with data validation, reconciliation, quality assurance, reporting validation, data migration, BI modernization, or source-system re-platforming.

Please submit your resume for consideration.

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