Associate Inventory Planner - Business to Business

About the Role

As an Associate Inventory Planner, you will support the WSI Business-To-Business division across all WSI brands and product categories. You will partner with the B2B Sales and Operations team to win new B2B projects: analyzing inventory availability, pricing, and margin. This position is in San Francisco.

Responsibilities

Project bids:

• Work closely with cross-functional teams on large scale B2B project bids from inception to order placement.
• Provide inventory levels, lead time, costing, and product info for project assortment.
• Analyze inventory and margin position to provide strategic bid packages for large projects.
• Identify process opportunities and points of friction to create more scalable processes and keep up with B2B growth.

Reporting:

• Analyze B2B sales trends, publish select reporting to the B2B and brand teams.
• Communicate to brand planning team trends to the department, collection, item level.
• Analyze regional territory performance for the business sales team to reach their weekly and annual goals.

Cross-functional tasks:

• Partner with sales, stores, and operations to provide the best B2B discounting to win a project.

• Partner with manager and brand planning to approve large orders pulling from brand inventory.

• Partner with brand planning on overstock SKU lists, publish lists to contract sales team to drive brand volume.

Success factors important for this role:

• Communications: "Clear, simple, effective verbal and written"
• Planning and Prioritization: "Look ahead and plan. Balance urgent versus important" Continuously prioritizes efforts to balance short and long-term goals. Quickly redirects efforts when business needs require re-prioritization.

Criteria

• You have a passion for our business and retail
• You are a data driven individual with a curious, entrepreneurial mindset
• You can thrive and adapt to a constantly changing environment
• Have a desire and willingness to work collaboratively in a group
• Possess strong organizational skills and ability to prioritize workload to meet deadlines
• Naturally challenge yourself to learn and grow
• You have strong computer skills including business applications such as MS Windows and MS Office, especially Excel

• This role requires being onsite in the San Francisco office

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Our Culture & Values

We believe that taking care of our people is vital to our success and we strive to offer equitable and transparent practices for all. We prioritize connection, growth, and wellbeing.

People First

Putting People First means investing in overall well-being and opportunities to grow and advance within the organization. Depending on the position and location, here are a few highlights of what benefits may be available:

Benefits

• A generous discount on all WSI brands

• A 401(k) plan and other investment opportunities

• Paid vacations, holidays, and time off to volunteer

• Health benefits, dental and vision insurance, including same-sex domestic partner benefits

• Tax-free commuter benefits

• A wellness program that supports your physical, financial and emotional health

Continued Learning

• In-person and online learning opportunities through WSI University

• Cross-brand and cross-function career opportunities

• Resources for self-development

• Advisor (Mentor) program

• Career development workshops, learning programs, and speaker series

WSI will not now or in the future commence an immigration case or "sponsor" an individual for this position (for example, H-1B or other employment-based immigration).

This role is not eligible for relocation assistance.

Williams-Sonoma, Inc. is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Williams-Sonoma, Inc. will consider for employment qualified applicants with criminal histories in a manner consistent with the requirements of the San Francisco Fair Chance Ordinance, or other applicable state or local laws and ordinances.

The expected starting pay range for this position is $68,000 - $72,000. Applicable pay ranges may differ across markets. Actual pay will be determined based on experience and other job-related factors permitted by law. In addition to competitive pay, compensation may include a variety of other components like benefits, paid time off, merit, and bonus opportunities.