Senior Store Merchandise Planning Financial Analyst (114549) - Full-time

Are you ready to explore the corporate side of retail? The TJX Companies, Inc. is the leading off-price apparel and home fashions retailer in the U.S. and worldwide. Our brands include T.J. Maxx, Marshalls, HomeGoods and Sierra Trading Post, as well as tjmaxx.com and sierratradingpost.com in the United States; Winners, HomeSense and Marshalls in Canada; T.K. Maxx in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, Poland, Austria and the Netherlands, as well as HomeSense and tkmaxx.com in the U.K.; and Trade Secret in Australia. With nearly $31 billion in revenues in 2015, more than 3,600 stores, and approximately 216,000 Associates, success is always in style at TJX. We at TJX understand that both our customers and the talent pool from which our Associates come are increasingly diverse. Our core values of respect, integrity and fairness are inherent in the relationships we build with each other, our vendors and our customers. We are committed to leveraging the differences among our Associates and customers to create both a diversified mix of talent within TJX and a diversified mix of merchandise within our stores. We consider the unique views and opinions of our Associates to be key to our growth and success in the future.

Senior Financial Store Merchandise Planning Analyst

HomeGoods Store Merchandise Analysis Team:

HomeGoods Merchandise Planning and Analysis (MP&A) is responsible for in depth and complex preparation, analysis, and development of numerous reports which identify merchandising trends and opportunities. MP&A provides Senior Management, Planning & Allocation, and Merchandising information for use in decision making, and partners with these stakeholders to provide recommendations as a result of analysis.

In this role the Senior Analyst develops thought processes to improve ranking philosophies, methods and systems to support business strategies. They will develop and maintain store capacity thresholds and travel to stores to evaluate and develop action plans to drive sales.

Responsibilities include:

(Pre-season)

• Partners with Planning & Allocation and Systems to develop the thought processes for ways in which ranking philosophies and methods can be improved.
• Partners with Planning & Allocation to ensure store ranking continues to support the business objectives and philosophy.
• Simulates any proposed ranking process changes to assess their impact.
• Creates the Ranking Calendar and Pre-Season memo published to Planning & Allocation to explain and outline the ranking process with key action dates.
• Determines special attention store and develops a strategy for ranking these stores whether it be systemically with the balance of the chain or off line through detailed analysis. This could include creating special criteria for the systems group to use systemically rank these stores.
• Reviews the ranking logic step by step with Systems to ensure that the most current logic requested is programmed correctly and ranking is ready to run.

(In-season)

• Evaluates field (Regional VPs/DMs) and Planning & Allocation call-outs on inventory levels and/or business opportunities and initiatives.
• Creates exception reporting to evaluate ranks in initiative stores. Goal is to ensure ranking supports all business development initiatives.
• Performs independent store analysis, determining potential opportunities to drive profitable sales.
• Develops and maintains store capacity thresholds. Ensures appropriate inventory management in stores with high/low volume, initiative stores, expanded home stores, etc.
• Makes recommendations to lower level planning to PMs to support better profile analysis and/or opportunities to rank at a lower level within a business (urban vs non).

(Regional)

• Manages OTS weeks, sales trending, and patterning for stores
• Performs special projects as necessary.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree
• 2-4 years of business analysis experience
• Strong conception and analytical skills
• Strong communication skills to all levels of management
• Proficient technical skills: Microsoft Office Excel (pivot tables), MS Access and PowerPoint a plus
• Proactive, detailed-oriented, and results-driven
• Knowledge of TJX Planning and Allocation systems and procedures a plus

What's In It For You?

At the TJX Companies, Inc., conveniently located directly off both the Mass Pike and Route 9, you'll not only enjoy the security of working for a stable and profitable industry leader, but you'll also enjoy the benefits that go along with it, such as: Medical/Dental/Life insurance, Associate Discounts and a Savings/Profit Sharing 401(k) Plan.

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TJX is an equal opportunity employer committed to workplace diversity.

Posting Notes: Framingham || Massachusetts