Sr. Manager, Retail Inventory Planning

Employment Type: Full-time Location Type: Remote

Position Overview

Stio® is seeking a Sr. Manager, Retail Inventory Planning to manage and optimize in-store inventory to drive sales, margin, and store performance. This role is responsible for developing pre-season assortment plans and inventory strategies by store, ensuring effective management of retail inventory and driving sales through improved availability and forecasts. It is a highly collaborative role that partners with a variety of cross-functional teams.

Responsibilities

Pre-Season Planning

• Develop and drive pre-season, item-level sales and inventory plans aligned with historical performance, merchandising strategies, and financial targets.
• Partner with Merchandising teams on the seasonal assortment by style for retail.
• Provide analytics to ensure the seasonal line meets financial and KPI targets.
• Curate retail product assortment by store (style & color) using store clustering and merchandise input on style and color rank.
• Develop and implement retail-specific initiatives, partnering with cross-functional teams to execute seasonal plans effectively.
• Prepare presentations and present channel strategies and forecasts in OTB meetings.
• Plan and execute new store inventory, including merchandising plans and initial store inventory levels.
• Build seasonal outlet store inventory requirements for the following season’s assortment, ensuring alignment with Outlet strategy and financial targets.

Allocation and Inventory Management

• Develop and implement allocation strategies to ensure optimal product distribution across Stio’s retail and outlet locations.
• Manage the timing of seasonal products and send-backs to optimize inventory flow.
• Maximize sales by ensuring the right inventory is in the right stores at the right time.
• Manage in-season forecasting to optimize allocation and omni-channel inventory management.
• Ensure alignment with top-down, monthly forecasts and channel goals.
• Adjust seasonal assortments in-season.
• Support inventory management between retail, e-commerce, and wholesale channels.
• Manage outlet store pricing updates according to inventory sell-through strategy.

Reporting

• Participate in weekly meetings focused on Merch performance and alignment between Central Retail, Retail Marketing, and Planning on retail strategies for in-season sales.
• Assess the performance of retail planning initiatives and identify improvement opportunities for continuous optimization.
• Establish and monitor revenue KPIs for the retail channel, tracking and reporting on performance metrics.
• Create seasonal hindsight reporting for next season review.
• Partner with the Retail Central team to gather store feedback for next season.
• Recap and analyze monthly actuals against plan and last year.
• Present key takeaways from performance analysis.

Company Information

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.

Stio is committed to environmental stewardship and is a proud partner of Protect Our Winters and the Conservation Alliance. The company utilizes a strong preferred materials platform, Bluesign® approved textiles wherever possible, audits its supply chains for best practices, and operates its workplaces responsibly.

Stio believes that "outside is the best side" and is dedicated to enabling access for all people, regardless of race, gender, beliefs, background, or ability, striving for inclusion in its company and communities.