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As a Divisional Senior Planning Manager at Babylist, you'll own the financial and inventory strategy for a full division of the e-commerce business, directly shaping investment decisions, risk-taking, and delivery for millions of families. This is a leadership role where you're accountable not just for hitting numbers, but for how decisions get made. You'll set the standard for how planning operates as a strategic partner to Merchandising and a driver of company performance.
Your day-to-day sits at the intersection of analytics, judgment, and influence. You'll lead your team through forecasting, OTB (Open-to-Buy), and in-season management, while personally engaging in the highest-leverage decisions—where to lean in, where to pull back, and how to respond when the business shifts. You'll operate in close partnership with Merchandising, bringing a clear point of view and engaging in real debate to get to better outcomes. You'll also work across Finance, Supply Chain, and Operations to ensure plans hold up in execution.
This role requires strong perspective and comfort with ambiguity. You'll be expected to step in, raise the level of thinking, and influence beyond your direct scope—even when the answer isn't obvious. You need 8+ years in merchandise planning, inventory planning, or retail finance, with direct ownership of a department or division-level P&L. You must have 3+ years managing planners, including hiring and developing high-performing teams with at least 2 direct reports.
You'll bring deep expertise in retail math, forecasting, and inventory management, including OTB ownership, in-season reforecasting, and inventory turn optimization. You have a proven ability to influence Merchandising leaders on assortment, pricing, and investment decisions, bringing data-backed points of view. Experience leading cross-functional, cross-divisional initiatives that changed how planning operates is essential. You command planning tools and data environments (advanced Excel, Anaplan, Netsuite, SAP, or similar) and can independently diagnose performance and translate it into decisions.
You're comfortable operating across multiple inventory models (owned and drop-ship) and adjusting strategy based on category dynamics. You thrive in high-growth, evolving e-commerce or omnichannel environments where you build while operating and make decisions without perfect data. You're genuinely excited about AI—not just as a concept, but as something you want to get your hands on.
