Remote Merchandise Planner Jobs
Remote Merchandise Planner jobs are in active demand across the U.S., with remote-first retailers, e-commerce brands, and distributed wholesale teams posting openings for planners who can manage inventory and buying cycles without an on-site presence. Employers hiring remotely right now include Deckers Brands, Crocs, and Carhartt. Scan the live roles below and apply to whichever ones fit.
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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 merchandise planner jobs.
- Bachelor's degree in merchandising, business, supply chain, or a related field
- Proficiency in retail planning and inventory management software
- Experience building and managing open-to-buy budgets
- Strong Excel or spreadsheet modeling skills for financial and assortment analysis
- Demonstrated ability to analyze sell-through, inventory turn, and margin data
- Familiarity with cross-functional collaboration between buying, allocation, and logistics teams
Tips for Your Remote Merchandise Planner Job Search
Apply early to remote roles that fit
Migrate Mate lists remote merchandise planner openings from across the U.S. in one place. Check it regularly and apply to roles that match your planning background and tools experience as soon as they post, since remote openings often close faster than on-site ones.
Show async communication skills upfront
Remote merchandise planner roles depend on clear written handoffs with buyers, vendors, and cross-functional teams. Use your resume and cover letter to show you can communicate inventory decisions, assortment changes, and reorder triggers in writing without ambiguity or back-and-forth.
Prove your planning tools fluency
Remote hiring managers for merchandise planner roles screen heavily for tool proficiency. Call out specific platforms you use, whether that's Excel-based open-to-buy models, Anaplan, Blue Yonder, or a retailer's proprietary planning system, and name the actual tasks you perform in each.
Prepare for a data-driven remote interview
Remote merchandise planner interviews often include scenario questions around sell-through shortfalls, overstock decisions, or seasonal buys. Have two or three concrete examples ready where you used data to adjust a plan, and be specific about the outcome and the tools you used.
Remote Merchandise Planner Jobs: Frequently Asked Questions
How do I get a remote merchandise planner job?
Target remote-first e-commerce brands, direct-to-consumer retailers, and distributed wholesale companies, since those are the employers most likely to hire merchandise planners off-site. Remote hiring managers screen hard for self-direction, clear written communication, and proficiency in planning tools like Excel, Smartsheet, or retail planning software. Candidates who can show concrete results, like improved sell-through rates or reduced overstock, stand out more than those who rely on in-person relationship-building to demonstrate value.
Which companies hire remote merchandise planners?
Remote 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 tend to be remote-first retailers, e-commerce companies, and multi-channel brands that run distributed buying and planning teams without requiring planners to be on-site.
Can you get a remote merchandise planner job with no experience?
Yes, but remote entry-level roles are harder to land because employers expect you to manage planning workflows independently from day one with little in-person oversight. Your strongest assets are demonstrated proficiency with planning or inventory tools, completed coursework in retail buying or supply chain, and any project, internship, or freelance work that shows you can analyze sell-through data and make decisions without someone looking over your shoulder.
Do you need a degree for remote merchandise planner jobs?
Not always. Many remote employers care more about hands-on planning experience, strong Excel or ERP skills, and a demonstrated ability to hit sell-through and margin targets than they do about a specific degree. A portfolio of real planning work, relevant certifications, and evidence that you can operate independently in a distributed team often carries more weight than your educational background alone.
Which industries hire the most remote merchandise planners?
Most remote merchandise planner openings sit in Retail and Fashion & Apparel, per current remote listings on Migrate Mate as of November 2026. These sectors hire merchandise planners remotely because their buying and inventory decisions are data-driven and system-dependent, making the role well-suited to distributed teams that coordinate through shared planning platforms rather than on-site meetings.
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