Job Description

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Stio® is seeking a Director of Inventory Planning (DIP) to develop, communicate, and execute inventory strategies aimed at maximizing sales, optimizing inventory, and increasing margin. This role is responsible for pre-season planning, purchasing, and in-season inventory management across all categories and channels. The DIP will work collaboratively with cross-functional teams to achieve business objectives and will lead and coach the Planning team. This position is part of the Operations team and reports directly to the Vice President of Operations.

Responsibilities

Leadership

• Manages, coaches, and develops the Inventory Planning team, fostering a culture of collaboration, high performance, and continual process improvement.
• Prioritizes and balances the team’s workload across in-season and pre-season planning deadlines to ensure on-time and accurate execution.

Seasonal Inventory Planning Strategies

• Develops, communicates, and gains alignment on seasonal inventory strategies throughout the Go-To-Market (GTM) process, including Open-to-Buy (OTB) and Revenue meetings.
• Oversees pre-season, item-level sales and inventory plans that align with historical performance, merchandising strategies, and financial targets.
• Provides Category Planning Managers with category/channel-level strategy direction, including growth, margin, safety stock, and delivery targets.
• Ensures the alignment of bottoms-up sales and buy plans to the top-down targets.

Inventory Management and Optimization

• Manages in-season pricing and markdown strategies to maximize sales and margin while meeting sell-through targets.
• Oversees an omni-channel approach to inventory planning, ensuring optimization across sales channels.
• Partners with key stakeholders to provide visibility to slow-moving inventory and works cross-functionally on action plans to hit target inventory levels.
• Identifies and implements tools, KPIs, processes, and best practices to optimize inventory performance.

Cross-Functional Collaboration & Process Improvements

• Actively partners cross-functionally to drive shared business goals and key outcomes.
• Identifies and leads projects to continuously improve current processes, tools, and meetings.
• Manages weekly and monthly inventory reporting and insights, highlighting opportunities and risks.
• Looks for opportunities to standardize reports and streamline processes.
• Leads the implementation of new workflows to maximize inventory planning software across the planning team.

Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree in finance, business, engineering, economics, operations management, or equivalent.
• 8+ years of experience in inventory planning, including forecasting, purchasing, allocation, and inventory management.
• 3+ years of supervisory experience managing people, with a proven ability to build relationships and lead and develop a high-performing team.

About Us

Stio® is an omni-channel mountain brand that designs, develops, and sells beautiful, functional, and innovative apparel, footwear, and other accessories infused with the soul of the mountain lifestyle. With headquarters in Jackson, Wyoming, Stio draws inspiration from the surrounding Teton Range and offers product via Stio.com, catalog, B2B, and its Mountain Studio® retail locations.

We live and love mountain life, and as such see ourselves as caretakers of the resources that provide it. We are proud partners of Protect Our Winters and the Conservation Alliance, among many other organizations. We have a strong preferred materials platform, use Bluesign® approved textiles wherever possible, audit our supply chains for best practices, and operate our workplaces responsibly.

We believe that outside is the best side and that you can’t improve on nature. It’s good for mind, body, and soul, and it’s our responsibility to help enable access for all people, regardless of race, gender, beliefs, background, or ability. We strive for inclusion at Stio and in our local and national communities.