Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time

Position Overview

This role involves leading the education, maintenance, and evolution of forecast applications, maintaining attributes and default settings within these applications. The primary goal is to apply an understanding of customer needs to drive replenishment merchandising strategy. This includes collaborating with merchant partners to create optimal demand forecasts that maximize results through replenishment and align with the merchandise strategy. The position requires a deep understanding of the merchant strategy, product expectations, and the order generation process to ensure alignment with buyer outcomes. Proactive identification of opportunities to drive replenishment and improve item performance is key. The role also involves performing analysis and influencing decision-making to enhance replenishment sales and inventory results that complement the total assortment. Proficiency in applicable systems, including replenishment, item planning, reporting, and division-specific tools, is essential.

Responsibilities

• Lead forecast application education, maintenance, and evolution.
• Maintain attributes and default settings in forecasting applications.
• Apply customer needs and expectations to drive replenishment merchandising strategy.
• Collaborate with merchant partners to create optimal demand forecasts.
• Maximize results through replenishment and align with merchandise strategy.
• Demonstrate understanding of merchant strategy, product expectations, and order generation process.
• Ensure order results align with buyer's expected outcomes.
• Proactively seek opportunities to drive replenishment and improve item performance.
• Perform analysis and influence decision-making to improve replenishment sales and inventory results.
• Complement the total assortment with improved replenishment outcomes.
• Demonstrate proficiency in applicable systems (replenishment, item planning, reporting, division-specific tools).

Requirements

• Experience with retail forecasting tools and methods.
• Oracle merchandising foundation experience and/or Retail Demand Forecast (RDF) experience preferred.
• Minimum 1-3 years of experience in retail merchandise planning and analysis, inventory management, or equivalent required.
• Bachelor’s degree in Merchandising, Statistics, Management Information Systems, or related field preferred.
• Experience supporting a high sales volume category (high SKU count, heavy seasonality, high revenue ($20M+)) preferred.
• Basic statistics proficiency.
• Demonstrated understanding of retail and the service environment of Nordstrom required.
• Demonstrated ability to develop relationships with customers and coworkers.
• Proficiency in MS Office suite required.
• Clear and effective written and verbal communication skills required.
• Strong interpersonal skills required.

Company Information & Benefits

Nordstrom values its employees as its most important asset, reflected in its comprehensive benefits package.

Benefits include:

• Medical/Vision, Dental, Retirement, and Paid Time Away
• Life Insurance and Disability
• Merchandise Discount and EAP Resources

Eligibility requirements may apply based on location, job level, classification, and length of employment.

For more information on benefits, please visit: https://careers.nordstrom.com/pdfs/Ben_Overview_17-19.pdf

Pay Range

Annual Salary: $92,000.00 - $155,000.00

This position may be eligible for performance-based incentives/bonuses.

Application Instructions

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Additional Information

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