Assistant Planner, June 2025 Executive Development Program

Serving the needs of all families with young children, Carter’s Inc. is the largest North American apparel retailer exclusively for babies and young children, encompassing Carter’s, OshKosh B’gosh, Skip*Hop and Little Planet brands. Meaningful work, constant learning, genuine people, and a community guided by core values that promote inclusion and innovation is in everything we do. There are many reasons to build your career at Carter's.

HOW YOU'LL MAKE AN IMPACT:

The Carter’s Retail Planning team is responsible for developing short and mid-range merchandise strategies, buy quantification and financial plans, working cross-functionally with our Merchandising, Marketing, Pricing, Allocations and Location Planning teams to achieve key financial objectives for CRI.

The Assistant Planner role focuses on the day-to-day operations of the Planning office and supports the Planning team with relevant data to drive the business, provides critical administrative functions, and collaborates with cross-functional partners to ensure the key strategies and pricing are executed.

We are looking for a candidate who possesses strong organizational skills, is energized by multi-tasking in a fast-paced environment, and is agile in evaluating business trends/analytics, the customer experience and delivering results.

This role typically reports into a Senior Planner or Planning Manager and is based in our Atlanta office on-site work environment.

50% Pricing and Inventory Execution:   

• Manage pre-season and in-season pricing execution.  Includes partnering with Planner, Merchandising & Operations to develop and execute future pricing strategies, weekly campaign changes for stores and eComm, and adjusting as needed based on business trends  
• Execute price changes for permanent markdowns in order to maximize gross margin productivity aligning to topside financial goals. 
• Manage delivery reports and communicate major shifts to the team, adjust promotional cadence as needed. 
• Represent as one of the main points of contact for all questions, feedback, and concerns regarding Store and eComm pricing.  
• Demonstrate excellent organizational skills and accuracy regarding product setup and pricing to maintain our customer’s perception of value

50% In-season Business Management, Financial Plans and Marketing Support:  

• Generate and analyze daily sales/inventory/gross margin, productivity, best/worst selling, promos, and create any ad hoc requests as needed.   
• Partnering with Planner/Associate Planner, develop the fundamentals of Planning by building and managing ladder plans for replenishment styles by channel, style.  
• Support Financial planning & buy quantification for future seasons as needed. 
• Capture required changes to future promotional cadence based on topside retail event calendar and strategies for the season.   
• Complete periodic store visits to continually listen, learn, build relationships to better understand what our customer is looking for.  

We’d Love to hear from you if:

Must have:

• Strong organizational skills, ability to multi-task in fast-paced environment, and agility w/analytics
• Bachelor’s degree
• Minimum cumulative GPA of 3.0(3.2 GPA or higher strongly preferred)
• Required to have graduated within 6 months of class start date
• Must be able to start in the role full time by June 2025

Preferred skills and experience:

• A wide variety of past experiences (if applicable encourages diverse backgrounds)

OUR Team Members:

• Lead Courageously: Have a strong sense of personal values that align with our Company values
• Collaborates Broadly: Build cooperation, trust, and thrive in a consensus driven environment
• Customer Focus: Proactively seek opportunities to leverage data and fact-based insights to serve customers and/or internal clients
• Drive Growth: Set aggressive goals and implement plans precisely
• Cultivates Innovation:  Respectfully challenge the "we’ve always done it this way" mentality and explore new ways to achieve desired outcomes

Make a career at Carter’s:

• Career Development: Success starts from within, and we have several paths from which you can choose to enhance your career evolution. From Carter’s University to Toastmasters to mentorship programs and more, we encourage you to utilize these tools to elevate your professional prowess.

NOTE:  This job description is not intended to be all-inclusive. The duties described may be changed or reassigned at the discretion of management, and the employee may be required to perform duties that are not listed in the job description.

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In order for your application to be complete, you must complete an assessment. This assessment should take about 10-15 minutes to complete. Please note: Your application will not be fully submitted until the assessment is complete.

Carters is committed to creating a diverse environment and is proud to be an equal opportunity employer. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, religion, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, national origin, genetics, disability, age, veteran status, or any other status protected by federal, state, or local law.