Senior Planner

Role Description

Babylist is hiring a Senior Planner to run the day-to-day execution of merchandise planning for our growing e-commerce business. You'll own Open-to-Buy and inventory planning for your departments, making sure the right products are available at the right time to hit customer demand and business targets. This is a highly tactical, execution-focused role: you'll spend most of your time working directly in our planning systems, managing forecasts, inventory flow, and vendor projections, while partnering closely with Merchandising and Supply Chain on the daily and weekly running of the business.

Qualifications

• Owned Open-to-Buy at the department or category level.
• Comfortable managing day-to-day tradeoffs across sales, inventory, and margin.
• Proficient in retail math, forecasting, and inventory planning concepts and best practices.
• Excel power user who can analyze data, spot trends, and translate insights into clear actions.
• Understanding of vendor dynamics and comfortable owning vendor forecasts, projections, and ongoing communication.
• 6-8 years of experience in inventory or merchandise planning, ideally in e-commerce or retail.
• Comfortable spending ~80% of your time working directly in planning systems.
• Highly tactical and execution-focused, able to juggle multiple moving pieces and priorities at once.
• Strong communicator who partners effectively with Merchandising and Supply Chain on day-to-day execution.
• Adaptable, organized, and proactive, able to pivot quickly as the business changes.
• Thrives in a fast-paced, high-growth environment and enjoys being close to the business.
• Uses AI in work and stays curious about advancements.

Requirements

• Own Open-to-Buy for your departments, managing sales, inventory, margin, and turn targets through disciplined execution.
• Maintain and update forecasts in the planning system, keeping them accurate and aligned with current trends and business needs.
• Execute replenishment and order writing for your categories, managing the end-to-end order pipeline.
• Partner with Merchandising on day-to-day business decisions, supporting assortment execution and inventory strategies.
• Own vendor forecasting and projections, leading regular planning meetings with vendors.
• Collaborate closely with Supply Chain on inbound timing, inventory flow, and near-term execution needs.
• Monitor weekly sales and inventory performance, flag risks and opportunities, and adjust plans as needed.
• Support pre-season planning by building bottom-up forecasts aligned to assortment strategies and budget goals.
• Prioritize top-volume and top-registered SKUs to maximize revenue, in-stock performance, and customer experience.
• Use data and AI-enabled tools to improve forecast accuracy, streamline execution, and cut manual work.
• Identify opportunities for process, system, or workflow improvements and bring recommendations to Planning leadership.

Benefits

• Company-paid medical, dental, and vision insurance.
• Retirement savings plan with company matching and flexible spending accounts.
• Generous paid parental leave and PTO.
• Winter Wonder Week: the whole company takes a paid week off at the end of the year.
• Remote work stipend to set up your office.
• Perks for physical, mental, and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning.