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General Summary:

Plan Administrators provide assortment and financial planning systems support and training. They build and maintain the tools required to achieve successful execution of assortment planning. This includes managing a multitude of business processes and working with a diverse team of business partners.

Plan Administrators serve as subject matter experts on issues pertaining to merchandise planning applications within Family Dollar, including the SAS assortment planning toolset and Blue Yonder Enterprise Planning. Plan Administrators ensure the assortment planning and financial planning processes are executed consistently and in accordance with established processes.

Plan Administrators are responsible for creating and maintaining SAS Planning worksheets and related reporting, as well as administering the Enterprise Planning solution on behalf of the Financial Planning organization.

Principal Duties & Responsibilities:

1. Maintain and enhance the SAS Planning solution as needed to support Assortment Planning processes

2. Maintain and enhance the Blue Yonder Enterprise Planning solution in support of the Merchandise Financial Planning process

3. Support the successful, on-time delivery of Financial Planning deliverables, including future financial plans that feed into Assortment Planning, the MMR, and other deliverables as needed

4. Performs forecasting and SKU eligibility validation activities for assortment execution

5. Maintain Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) documents to ensure continuity and minimize disruption due to future organizational and business changes

6. Provide the user community with training and support on all aspects of processes and systems used within the context of Assortment Planning and Financial Planning

7. Support the execution of history and plan reclassification

8. Serve as the primary point of contact for planning tools and processes. Resolve customer concerns in a timely manner

9. Accountable to the compliance of data quality sent from SAS AP to downstream systems, on-time delivery of new items to stores by the set date (Basics) or in-store date (Seasonal/Fashion), and customer service

10. Provide support for merchandising and planning activities as needed

Minimum Requirements:

Education: Bachelor’s Degree from a four-year college or university or equivalent experience

Experience: Related experience in an analyst, merchandising, or planner role. This should include prior experience in the retail industry as well as supply chain/logistics experience.

Technical Skills: Must possess strong organizational and computation skills, and have the ability to read and analyze financial reports. Knowledge of retail planning processes and data management is required. Exposure to MicroStrategy or other enterprise data warehouse applications preferred

Other Skills: Possess strong communication and presentation skills.

Dollar Tree and Family Dollar are Equal Opportunity employers.