Merchandise Planner

At HATCH, we design for every stage of womanhood—before, during, and after pregnancy—offering effortless clothing essentials and clean beauty solutions that put women first. What began as a modern answer to maternity style has grown into a full lifestyle brand. Beyond our collections, HATCH is a trusted resource and community, offering thoughtful services, inspiring events, and Babe—our content platform created to inform, inspire, and connect mothers everywhere. Please note that HATCH is not able to offer visa sponsorship or transfers currently. This is a hybrid position based in New York City. Overview At Hatch, we pride ourselves on delivering exceptional quality, thoughtful design, and a seamless customer experience. We are looking for a Merchandise Planner to join our team, bringing financial and strategic insights to life through merchandise and store-level planning. This role is central to driving profitable sales, optimizing inventory, and ensuring our product vision comes to life across all channels. The Planner will oversee both Direct-to-Consumer (DTC) and Wholesale businesses, ensuring alignment across channels. What You’ll Do Develop and execute top-down and bottom-up merchandise financial plans that support product and business strategies across DTC and Wholesale channels. Develop, manage, and communicate inventory management strategies to meet or exceed sales, margin, and turn goals across all channels of business. Own and execute store-level allocation and replenishment, acting as liaison to field teams regarding inventory needs. Manage Beauty replenishment forecast and placements. Recap and analyze weekly financial results, supporting decisions on margin and inventory optimization. Support Merch/Planning team in developing preseason sales, gross margin, and inventory strategies by channel, department, and subclass. Support Merch/Planning team in open-to-buy (OTB) preparation through analysis and scenario work. Partner with Merchandising to analyze historical data and current trends, recommending in-season tactics. Perform location-based market analysis to guide assortment and investment decisions. Develop pre-season store attributes and distribution strategies for new product releases. Collaborate cross-functionally with Merchandising, Production, Store Operations, and Finance to optimize inventory and store performance. Identify process improvement opportunities and support the implementation of new strategies. What You’ll Bring 3–5 years of experience in planning, allocation, or inventory management (multi-channel or specialty retail preferred). Experience managing DTC and Wholesale businesses. Strong analytical and problem-solving skills with proven ability to translate data into actionable strategies. Solid understanding of retail math, OTB, and inventory planning concepts. Advanced Microsoft Excel skills; ability to quickly learn new systems and tools. Excellent communication and presentation skills with the ability to synthesize complex information. Highly organized, detail-oriented, and able to manage multiple priorities in a fast-paced environment. Flexible, curious, and adaptive with a continuous improvement mindset. Why You’ll Love Working With Us The Product—so good, you’ll be using your employee discount more than you probably should. The People—ask anyone that works here…we have incredible people on our team. Employee discount across our portfolio of brands: Janie and Jack and HATCH Studios. Paid holidays and Flexible Time Off (unlimited vacation). Generous Health Savings Account (HSA) employer contributions for individuals and families. Flexible Spending Accounts and commuter benefits. Life insurance. Extensive 401(k) plan with company matching. Medical, dental, vision, and life insurance*. Employee Assistance Program with resources like financial and legal assistance, emotional work/life counseling, health, and wellness resources, travel assistance. Actual starting pay for this role is determined by a wide array of factors including but not limited to qualifications, experience, relevant skills, education, and geographic location. Employees are offered a variety of benefits to empower them with the resources and flexibility they need to enjoy success on the job and to live a healthy life. *Full-time employees are eligible for medical insurance, dental insurance, vision insurance, health and dependent care FSA, life/ad&d insurance, short term and long-term disability, commuter benefits, pet benefits, tuition reimbursement, paid time off and 401(k) including matching. All employees are eligible for employee discounts and EAP Resources. #J-18808-Ljbffr