Role Specific Information

Job Description

About the Role

As Associate Planner you will directly influence your buying office’s ability to meet financial plans and ensure customer satisfaction. You will build brand category plans from the bottom up, analyze historical data to forecast trends and capture them through inventory deployment strategies. You will work in multiple seasons at a time, offer insights into current results and recommend future actions to drive profitable sales.

What You’ll Do

• Work collaboratively with the merchandising team for your category of business to provide financial plans and projections for your product assortments

• Build, update and maintain Enterprise Planning (EP), KP2 web-based application and Vendor Performance Summaries (VPS)

• Update Open-to-Buy (OTB) after the first pass is completed

• Vendor and Brand management

• Form and recap population

• Manage inventory flow; push, cancel and chase

• KPIs include: Sales, Margin and Turn

• Partner with teams such as merchants, product development, supply chain, space planning and digital to drive overall strategy and results 

• Coach others in more junior roles to evaluate weekly replenishment and inventory flow strategies

• Additional tasks may be assigned

What Skills You Have

Required

• Strategic thinker and creative problem solver 

• Effective communicator 

• Adept multitasking skills

• Experience creating and manipulating spreadsheets

Essential Functions

The requirements listed below are representative of functions you will be required to perform, however you may be required to perform additional functions. Kohl’s may revise this job description at any time. To perform this job successfully, you must be able to perform each essential function satisfactorily. Reasonable accommodations may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions, absent undue hardship.

• Ability to perform the accountabilities listed in the “What You’ll Do” Section

• Ability to comply with dress code requirements

• Basic math and reading skills, legible handwriting, and basic computer operation

• Ability to maintain prompt and regular attendance and meet scheduling requirements as set by the company

• Ability to learn and comply with all company policies, procedures, standards and guidelines

• Ability to receive, understand and proactively respond to direction from leadership and other company personnel

• Ability to work as part of a team and interact effectively and appropriately with others

• Ability to maintain composure and work in a fast paced environment while accomplishing multiple tasks within established timeframes

• Ability to satisfactorily complete company training programs

• Ability to use a personal computer for tasks such as communicating, preparing reports, etc.

• Ability to plan, prioritize and monitor activities across business units

• Ability to complete or oversee the completion of assigned projects in a timely manner