Babylist is the trusted platform for millions of growing families. For over a decade, Babylist has been the technology solution for expecting parents and the community that supports them, expanding from baby registry into a full-service platform that helps parents make decisions with confidence, stay connected, and build happy and healthy families. Every year Babylist helps over 9M people make purchases through its registry, app, ecommerce shop, and comprehensive product guides. The Babylist ecosystem now includes Babylist Health, which provides access to products and services including insurance-covered breast pumps, Expectful, a new voice in health and wellness for pre-pregnancy through postpartum care, and The Push, a branded content studio that works with the biggest companies in the baby space. With over 59M monthly pageviews and 1.2M TikTok followers, Babylist is a generational brand leading the $88 billion baby product industry. To learn about Babylist’s registry options, editorial content, and more, visit www.babylist.com
Our Ways of Working
We have team members located across the United States spanning multiple time zones. This means we put in extra effort to make sure we connect and collaborate in ways that make sense for us. We know how valuable the flexibility of remote work is for our employees.
We know that personal connection is the foundation for the great work we do together. In order to build those relationships with team members in other cities, we meet with coworkers in person two times a year at a full company offsite and a departmental offsite. These offsites are expected of employees and are great opportunities to meet the people you work with every day and to do some of the work that is much more difficult to do virtually.
What the Role Is
Babylist is seeking a Merchandise Planner, Owned Brands to join our growing E-Commerce team. As the Merchandise Planner, you will ensure our Babylist store inventory is available and assist with the planning of a highly curated assortment of baby apparel and gear. You are an analytical thinker who is passionate and excited about joining a fast-growing e-commerce business.
Who You Are
You have 2-4 years in an inventory planning role
You have been a key player in driving, defining, and executing to pre-season strategy
You are able to navigate complex issues where analysis of situations requires data and an in-depth evaluation of multiple variable factors
You have strong analytical skills and can interpret meaningful themes and trends from quantitative data
You are a pro with inventory planning concepts, retail math, and best practices
You are an Excel wizard, who can manipulate and analyze data to come up with actionable insights
You are flexible and can adapt to changing priorities. You are able to find efficiencies and improvements to make existing processes more successful.
You have strong communication skills and can work effectively with the entire team including merchandising, operations, and customer service
You have a passion for e-commerce. You can be scrappy and are comfortable wearing many hats
You thrive in a fast-paced high growth environment
You have a four-year college degree or equivalent
How You Will Make An Impact
Responsible for sales, gross margin, stock, and inventory turn goals for multiple categories within a division
Review weekly sales performance, produce actionable insights, and pivot priorities as necessary
Recap weekly/monthly performance with data and insights to present in team meetings.\
Participate in monthly vendor meetings-either one on one or as part of the team.
Responsible for all replenishment planning & merchandise planning
Forecast category/brand/SKU demand and optimize inventory and flow plans to maintain desired stock levels
Create comprehensive quarterly hindsight reporting and recommend go-forward business strategies
Suggest sku rationalizationand any assortment edits
Lead pre-season inventory strategy for your categories to create tops down and bottoms up plans based on assortment strategies
Partner with Merchandising team to develop future product and inventory strategies
Partner with key suppliers to ensure optimal inventory levels and provide forecasts as needed
Focus on top volume/top registered SKUs to maximize revenue, in-stocks, and ensure a great experience for our users and customers
Manage beginning to end order pipeline of goods and negotiate flow requirements with vendors
Coordinate with the Operations team to ensure prompt deliveries and appropriate inbound flow planning
Track out-of-stock or discontinued items with vendors and communicate to internal stakeholders
Partner with Finance to reconcile vendor payments and invoicing as needed
Recommend system, tool, and process improvement to drive efficiency
Strategize new business process to drive financial goals and strategies
Why You Will Love Working At Babylist
We invest in the infrastructure you’ll need to be supported and successful: tools, opportunities to connect with colleagues, and a stipend to help you set up your office
We build products that have a positive impact on millions of people’s lives
We work at a sustainable pace which means work/life balance is a real thing here
We believe technology and data can solve hard problems
We believe in exceptional management
We are an antiracist organization and doing the work to support differences of all kinds
We offer competitive pay and meaningful opportunities for career advancement
We have great benefits like company paid medical, dental, and vision, a generous paid parental leave policy, and 401k with company match
We care about employee wellbeing with perks for physical, mental and emotional health, parenting, childcare, and financial planning
Babylist takes a market-based approach to pay, and pay may vary depending on your location. Your actual base salary will depend on factors such as your skills, qualifications, experience, and work location.
The estimated pay range for this role is $72,417.00 - $108,522.00
In addition, Babylist offers equity, bonus, and benefits, including company paid health, dental and vision insurance, 401(k) matching, flexible spending account, and paid leave (including PTO and parental leave) in accordance with our applicable plans and policies.
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Seniority level
Associate
Employment type
Full-time
Job function
Marketing, Other, and Sales
Industries
Retail
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