Remote Associate Merchandise Planner Jobs
Remote associate merchandise planner jobs are open across retail, e-commerce, and consumer goods at companies ranging from digitally native brands to large omnichannel retailers running distributed planning teams. Employers hiring remotely right now include Deckers Brands, Crocs, and Carhartt. See the openings below and apply to the ones that match your experience.
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Overview
Crocs, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Planner, Amazon & eTail, a high-impact role responsible for driving demand and inventory planning across one of the company's key digital businesses. This individual will lead the planning process for Amazon while supporting key eTail accounts, ensuring the right forecasts, inventory investments, and in-season actions are in place to deliver profitable growth, strong in-stock performance, and healthy inventory productivity. This role sits at the center of Sales, Finance, Merchandising, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Digital Marketplace teams, translating customer strategies and market opportunities into actionable revenue, unit, and inventory plans. The ideal candidate is energized by data-driven decision making, thrives in a fast-moving digital environment, and enjoys influencing cross-functional teams to solve complex business challenges and unlock growth opportunities.
What You'll Do
- Create, maintain, and communicate product/account forecast by generate a detailed sales plan by material for each key account.
- Collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Merchandising teams to achieve revenue goals.
- Support and execute the collaborative account planning process for North America’s key accounts with Sales.
- Partner with the sales team to ensure the material level forecast supports the account targets.
- Responsible for routine reporting to sales representatives including ATP, channel excess, bookings by season, shipments by month, open orders, etc.
- Prepare sales meeting materials and forecast templates for sales representatives to input seasonal plans by assisting the channel team in developing seasonal financial targets.
- Roll up data to validate top-down targets.
- Manage reconciliation between bottom-up plans and targets in order to monitor and evaluate the performance of account plans.
- Analyze POS data to assist Accounts in managing their business—ensuring margin and turn goals are met by identifying opportunities and liabilities in customer inventory.
- Monthly and seasonal analysis of account consumption against plan (pre-books and at-once) to then leverage forecast accuracy metrics and customer metrics to drive forecast improvements.
- Utilize and measure key category, marketing/merchandising, and customer information as inputs to the planning process.
- Conduct quantitative analysis and insights to optimize pre-season planning and manage demand shifts in-season.
- Provide input to the development of wholesale planning reporting and analytics activities to ensure account productivity and optimal inventory investment.
- Acquire a deep understanding of demand drivers and ensure that plans are calibrated accordingly.
- Compile quarterly hindsight reports by account for use in future assortment planning and replenishment forecasting.
- Develop, maintain, and assess the financial health of the account plan (season/monthly levels).
- Work closely with Demand Planning to understand inventory risks and opportunities.
- Ensure that Supply Planning constraints are appropriately accounted for in the Sales Forecast.
- Provide an executive overview of the plans to the merchandising, planning, and management teams, identifying deviations, potential risks, or opportunities in the business.
- Develop and update seasonal account profiles collaboratively with internal and external teams.
What You'll Bring to the Table
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Analytics, or a related field preferred.
- At least 5+ years in planning OTB / Demand within a digital environment; highly desirable to be within an Omni Channel setting particularly in the apparel / footwear business. Direct-to-consumer experience preferred, preferably in ecommerce.
- Understanding of Digital Customer experience and key players (Amazon, Zappos, eBay, etc.)
- Understanding of demand, supply, service, and other S&OP / IBP principals.
- Strong analytical capabilities using both systemic and Excel based tools.
- Validated experience communicating highly involved analytical work to less analytical problem solvers.
- Strong social skills shown in a highly collaborative setting.
- Extensive experience using Excel, Power BI a plus.
- Candidates can be based in either Boston or Broomfield HQ
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The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We accept applications on an ongoing basis.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability, or any other classification protected by law.
Title: Sr. Merchandise Planner (Remote)
Salary or Pay Range: $98,000 - $110,000
Pay offered will vary based on job-related factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities.
At Crocs, Inc. we believe in the power of a blend of in-person and virtual collaboration to drive creativity and strengthen relationships. Your participation in this flexible schedule plays a key role in building a connected and successful team. In-office requirements vary by our work personas: Resident (5 days), Collaborator (4 days), Connector (2-3 days), Explorer (fully remote). This role has been aligned to the Collaborator persona.
This position is eligible to participate in a company incentive program.
This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
The application window is 45 days, but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible after the posting date in order to ensure optimal consideration. The posting will be removed if the job is filled before the application window deadline.
Job Category: Corporate
Overview
Crocs, Inc. is seeking a Sr. Planner, Amazon & eTail, a high-impact role responsible for driving demand and inventory planning across one of the company's key digital businesses. This individual will lead the planning process for Amazon while supporting key eTail accounts, ensuring the right forecasts, inventory investments, and in-season actions are in place to deliver profitable growth, strong in-stock performance, and healthy inventory productivity. This role sits at the center of Sales, Finance, Merchandising, Demand Planning, Supply Planning, and Digital Marketplace teams, translating customer strategies and market opportunities into actionable revenue, unit, and inventory plans. The ideal candidate is energized by data-driven decision making, thrives in a fast-moving digital environment, and enjoys influencing cross-functional teams to solve complex business challenges and unlock growth opportunities.
What You'll Do
- Create, maintain, and communicate product/account forecast by generate a detailed sales plan by material for each key account.
- Collaborate with Sales, Finance, and Merchandising teams to achieve revenue goals.
- Support and execute the collaborative account planning process for North America’s key accounts with Sales.
- Partner with the sales team to ensure the material level forecast supports the account targets.
- Responsible for routine reporting to sales representatives including ATP, channel excess, bookings by season, shipments by month, open orders, etc.
- Prepare sales meeting materials and forecast templates for sales representatives to input seasonal plans by assisting the channel team in developing seasonal financial targets.
- Roll up data to validate top-down targets.
- Manage reconciliation between bottom-up plans and targets in order to monitor and evaluate the performance of account plans.
- Analyze POS data to assist Accounts in managing their business—ensuring margin and turn goals are met by identifying opportunities and liabilities in customer inventory.
- Monthly and seasonal analysis of account consumption against plan (pre-books and at-once) to then leverage forecast accuracy metrics and customer metrics to drive forecast improvements.
- Utilize and measure key category, marketing/merchandising, and customer information as inputs to the planning process.
- Conduct quantitative analysis and insights to optimize pre-season planning and manage demand shifts in-season.
- Provide input to the development of wholesale planning reporting and analytics activities to ensure account productivity and optimal inventory investment.
- Acquire a deep understanding of demand drivers and ensure that plans are calibrated accordingly.
- Compile quarterly hindsight reports by account for use in future assortment planning and replenishment forecasting.
- Develop, maintain, and assess the financial health of the account plan (season/monthly levels).
- Work closely with Demand Planning to understand inventory risks and opportunities.
- Ensure that Supply Planning constraints are appropriately accounted for in the Sales Forecast.
- Provide an executive overview of the plans to the merchandising, planning, and management teams, identifying deviations, potential risks, or opportunities in the business.
- Develop and update seasonal account profiles collaboratively with internal and external teams.
What You'll Bring to the Table
- Bachelor’s degree in Business, Supply Chain, Analytics, or a related field preferred.
- At least 5+ years in planning OTB / Demand within a digital environment; highly desirable to be within an Omni Channel setting particularly in the apparel / footwear business. Direct-to-consumer experience preferred, preferably in ecommerce.
- Understanding of Digital Customer experience and key players (Amazon, Zappos, eBay, etc.)
- Understanding of demand, supply, service, and other S&OP / IBP principals.
- Strong analytical capabilities using both systemic and Excel based tools.
- Validated experience communicating highly involved analytical work to less analytical problem solvers.
- Strong social skills shown in a highly collaborative setting.
- Extensive experience using Excel, Power BI a plus.
- Candidates can be based in either Boston or Broomfield HQ
#LI-Onsite
#LI-AF1
The Company is an Equal Opportunity Employer committed to a diverse and inclusive work environment. We accept applications on an ongoing basis.
All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity, national origin, or disability, or any other classification protected by law.
Title: Sr. Merchandise Planner (Remote)
Salary or Pay Range: $98,000 - $110,000
Pay offered will vary based on job-related factors such as location, experience, training, skills, and abilities.
At Crocs, Inc. we believe in the power of a blend of in-person and virtual collaboration to drive creativity and strengthen relationships. Your participation in this flexible schedule plays a key role in building a connected and successful team. In-office requirements vary by our work personas: Resident (5 days), Collaborator (4 days), Connector (2-3 days), Explorer (fully remote). This role has been aligned to the Collaborator persona.
This position is eligible to participate in a company incentive program.
This position is eligible for company benefits including but not limited to medical, dental, and vision coverage, life and AD&D, short and long-term disability coverage, paid time off, employee assistance, participation in a 401k program that includes company match, and many other additional voluntary benefits.
The application window is 45 days, but applicants are encouraged to apply as soon as possible after the posting date in order to ensure optimal consideration. The posting will be removed if the job is filled before the application window deadline.
Job Category: Corporate
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Who's Hiring
Top Industries Hiring
- Retail
- Fashion & Apparel
What Employers Look For
The qualifications that appear most often in remote associate merchandise planner jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in merchandising, business, supply chain, or a related field
- Proficiency in Microsoft Excel including pivot tables and advanced formulas
- Experience with retail planning or merchandise management software
- Understanding of open-to-buy planning and inventory management principles
- Strong analytical skills with the ability to interpret sales and inventory data
- Effective written and verbal communication skills for cross-functional collaboration
Tips for Your Remote Associate Merchandise Planner Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote associate merchandise planner openings from across the U.S. in one place, so you can find roles that match your background and apply directly without sorting through unrelated postings.
Prove your async communication skills upfront
Remote planning teams rely on written updates and shared documents instead of hallway conversations. Lead your cover letter and interview answers with examples of how you've communicated inventory analysis or assortment recommendations clearly in writing or in recorded presentations.
Highlight your planning tool proficiency specifically
Remote associate merchandise planner roles expect you to work independently in Excel, Google Sheets, or retail planning platforms from day one. Name the tools and functions you use, whether pivot tables, open-to-buy models, or demand planning software, so hiring managers don't have to guess.
Prepare for remote-specific interview questions
Expect questions about how you structure your workday without direct supervision, how you flag inventory issues when you can't walk over to a manager, and what tools you use to stay aligned with cross-functional partners. Have specific examples ready for each.
Remote Associate Merchandise Planner Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote associate merchandise planner job?
Target e-commerce brands, direct-to-consumer retailers, and omnichannel companies that run distributed planning teams, since these employers are most likely to hire associate merchandise planners remotely. Remote hiring managers screen for proficiency in planning tools like Excel or Tableau, comfort working asynchronously across time zones, and the ability to communicate inventory and assortment recommendations clearly in writing. Candidates who can demonstrate self-direction and proactive communication stand out most.
Which companies hire remote associate merchandise planners?
Remote associate merchandise planner roles are posted by Deckers Brands, Crocs, and Carhartt and others right now, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These include remote-first retailers, digitally native consumer brands, and large omnichannel companies that run planning functions across distributed teams.
Can you get a remote associate merchandise planner job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level associate merchandise planner roles are harder to land because employers expect you to work independently from day one with minimal in-person coaching. Your best path in is through internships at e-commerce or retail brands, coursework in merchandising or supply chain, and demonstrated fluency with spreadsheet-based planning tools. Showing concrete results from academic or freelance projects can substitute for direct work history.
Do you need a degree for remote associate merchandise planner jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers prefer a bachelor's degree in merchandising, business, or a related field, but they weigh practical skills heavily alongside education. Proficiency in planning and analytics tools, demonstrated ability to manage open-to-buy figures, and a portfolio showing real assortment or inventory decisions can open doors even if your degree is in an unrelated area.
Which industries hire the most remote associate merchandise planners?
The sectors hiring the most remote associate merchandise planners are Retail and Fashion & Apparel, based on current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These industries rely on distributed planning teams to manage assortment and inventory decisions across multiple channels without requiring planners to be on-site.
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