Senior Inventory Planner (Hybrid)

We are looking for a Senior Inventory Planner to join our Planning team at Fingerhut, a market-leading FinTech whose mission is to help its customers establish, build, or rebuild their credit! This role will be based out of our Eden Prairie office which operates in a hybrid work setting.

 Fingerhut has set becoming an ‘Employer of Choice’ as one of its four ‘Transformation’ goals to kick-off in 2022. After two years of pandemic, the ‘great resignation’, highly competitive Minneapolis and national labor market given the ability to work remotely leadership recognizes that the employee experience has to be greatly enhanced from acquisition through development to lead to retention.

As a Senior Inventory Planner, you will work closely with the buying team to support merchandising strategies. In this role, you will build and manage partnerships with internal and external customers to control inventory levels. You will be responsible for forecasting and planning inventory, analyzing data, predicting trends, while managing product lifecycles, lead times, warehouse capacity, and more.  As a people leader, you will also guide your team to manage these touch points in their businesses.  If you are someone who enjoys the challenge of leading people and maintaining optimal inventory levels and timing within a face-paced company, this is an ideal position for you.

DUTIES AND RESPONSIBILITIES

• Lead and mentor a team of Inventory Planners and Coordinators by communicating a clear set of expectations, coaching, implementing strategic plans, managing priorities, and driving business results to meet corporate objectives

• Develop and implement strategies to deliver and exceed inventory goals including in stocks, inventory turnover, and weeks of supply while driving sales and profit
• Collaborate with the Buying Team to build categorical strategies and manage the monthly forecast, the dropship/warehouse mix, and open to buy process for your business areas
• Manage product level forecasts; analyzing and revising the data and managing alerts to deliver accurate projections in anticipation of customer needs
• Optimize replenishment settings to balance inventory flow while delivering expected in stock results
• Lead and execute Seasonal planning strategies as needed
• Drive effective product life cycle management through recommending appropriate marketing and promotional action
• Partner with supply chain and fulfillment teams to reconcile issues
• Foster productive vendor relationships to support department and company goals

REQUIRED QUALIFICATIONS

• • Minimum 3 years of experience in Merchandising, Inventory Planning, Supply Chain, or similar
  • Experience managing and motivating teams of 3 or more
  • Strong communication (both written and verbal) and presentation skills
  • Solid problem-solving and analytic skills
  • Ability to build strong partnerships across organizations
  • Self-starter with a high level of flexibility and commitment, and a strong drive to win
  • Adept at working cross-functionally to achieve desired results
  • Proven knowledge and skill in MS Office (Excel, PowerPoint, Word, etc.)
  • Welcomes a diverse and inclusive work environment

PREFERRED QUALIFICATIONS

• Experience with Oracle Retail Planning software (AP/IP, MFP, RDF)

ABOUT BLUESTEM BRANDS

BLST Operating Company (Bluestem Brands) is a group of FinTech, and eCommerce Retail businesses (www.bluestem.com) led by our Fingerhut and Orchard Portfolios. This position falls under the Fingerhut – a long-standing fintech company. Check out www.fingerhut.com to see who we are and what we do for our customers. Fingerhut fuses our extensive years of data modeling and real-time analytics through machine learning to provide flexible payment options for our valued customers looking to establish, build, or rebuild credit. Qualifying customers use their accounts for e-Commerce purchases at fingerhut.com for everything they and their family need across a broad selection of national brands.

At Fingerhut, you’ll enter a culture that encourages team members to be bold and courageous. A culture that is zealous in pursuit of our mission to help our customers live a better financial life. In this culture, our team members find opportunities to stretch themselves, have a voice that is valued and is listened to, have a sizeable impact on the business, work cross-functionally and collaboratively. We are continually innovating and improving, challenging ourselves to take risks, learn from mistakes, and celebrate success as a team. We also grow careers, giving employees on-the-job stretch assignments, lateral moves to expand knowledge bases, and promotional opportunities that help to accelerate development.

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