Assistant Merchandise Planner

ASSISTANT MERCHANDISE PLANNER Our Values:At Morris Furniture Company, our values represent our distinctive core beliefs-the Morris way of doing business. Our Mission is "Making Homes Great" and we bring our mission to life through our values of: Professionalism, Quality, Ownership, Collaboration, Integrity and Fun. Purpose: The Assistant Merchandise Planner works directly with the Merchandise Planner to support inventory management and execute accurate, timely stock and custom purchase orders for stores. This role contributes to sales and profit objectives by driving product availability and maintaining balanced, healthy inventory levels across assigned categories. General Description of duties: This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. Employees may perform other related duties to meet the ongoing needs of the organization. Assist the Merchandise Planner with day-to-day activities to support the merchandising department.Maintain appropriate stock levels and place weekly purchase orders for assigned categories and vendors.Place daily purchase orders for oversold products within assigned categories and vendors.Partner with the Buying Team on advertised products to ensure sufficient inventory is available to support promotions.Manage custom orders by reviewing internal system updates, placing purchase orders, and communicating missing information, delays, or exceptions.Review and balance aged or dispositioned inventory to support healthy inventory levels.Communicate with vendors regarding purchase order updates, including cost changes, delivery dates, and discontinued items.Provide coverage for the Merchandising Assistant and Merchandise Planner as needed.Partner cross functionally with Buying, Distribution, and Store teams to align on inventory needs, order timing, and issue resolution.Follow established policies and procedures to ensure vendor purchase orders are processed according to best practices.Adhere to strict deadlines and demonstrate strong attention to detail in execution of assigned responsibilities. Qualifications:Manage multiple and high priority assignments in an organized and accurate mannerWork as part of a collaborative teamDetailed oriented and good written and verbal communicatorStrong analytical and problem-solving skills with the ability to interpret data and help make recommendationsAbility to take ownership of assigned categories and execute with a high level of accountability Requirements:High school or general education diploma or equivalent combination of education, experience and trainingAssociate's degree preferredExperience in Purchasing preferredExperience in Merchandising preferredProficiency in Microsoft Excel (basic formulas, data organization, and reporting) preferred Work Requirements:The physical demands described here are representative of those that must be met by an employee to successfully perform the essential functions of this job. Reasonable accommodation may be made to enable individuals with disabilities to perform the essential functions. While performing the duties of this job, the employee is regularly required to stand, sit, bend, twist, crouch, crawl, climb, use hands to finger, talk and hear. Specific visual abilities required by this job include close vision, distance vision, color vision, and the ability to adjust focus. Employee is occasionally required to lift, push, pull and/or move up to 100 pounds. This job description is not a comprehensive listing of activities, duties, or responsibilities that are required of the employees. The company reserves the right to revise or update this job description at any time without advance notice.