Top Benefits
About the role
Golf Town is a proudly Canadian golf superstore.
From drivers and irons to apparel, footwear, and accessories, we offer the best gear and custom fitting services to help golfers play their best since 1999.
As part of Sporting Life Group, alongside Sporting Life and Team Town, we are dedicated to sharing our passion and growing the game.
Why Work Here;
- Employee discounts at Golf Town, Sporting Life, and Team Town Sports that are shareable with friends and family.
- Team-first culture committed to sharing our passion and growing the game.
- Fun, fast-paced environment where learning about the latest golf gear is part of the job.
- Personal Use Discounts and expert product training to stay sharp and play your best.
- Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision), and opportunities to grow your career in the sports lifestyle.
What You’ll Do;
As a Planner with Golf Town, you’ll build merchandise financial plans that influence sales, profits, and inventory performance at the category level across Canada’s premier golf retailer.
You’ll partner closely with Buyers and senior leaders in providing analysis, forecasting insights, and clear recommendations that guide seasonal buys, Open-to-Buy (OTB) decisions, markdown strategies, and stock movement.
Within this role you'll be connecting numbers to action and keeping teams aligned to financial goals, putting you at the centre of the business.
- Manage and maintain merchandise financial plans by category, supplying summaries, forecasts, and allocation recommendations for merchants, Buyers, and the executive team, including bi-annual and mid-month reviews.
- Develop, analyse, and present a wide range of sales, inventory, stock-movement, and pre-season reports (daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal) to support assortment planning, replenishment strategies, and seasonal sign-offs.
- Review Open-to-Buy performance weekly, monthly, and year-to-date; recommend inventory requirements; support rolling 12-month forecasts; review open orders; and help manage core SKUs by store.
- Lead markdown analysis and execution, including summary reporting, recommending next steps, approving markdown manifests, and managing releases to stores.
- Provide key financial and business insights, including slow seller and aging analysis, season-end performance packages, and vendor three-year plan preparation, to support merchant planning and market meetings.
- Advise cross-functional partners by identifying actions, tracking progress against goals, and helping ensure all financial targets are met.
What You’ll Bring;
- Post-secondary education (University preferred) with a focus on retail, marketing or finance.
- 5+ years’ work experience in retail planning, buying or merchandising.
- Business knowledge of retail inventory management, merchandising concepts and operations.
- Proficient in retail math in a retail multi-brand environment with advanced Excel skills.
- Proven track record in inventory, sales and margin management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, working in a fast-paced team environment while multitasking and adapting to current business trends.
- Knowledge and passion for Golf!
Golf Town Limited is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, please advise the Golf Town Human Resources team of any accommodations required to ensure fair and equitable access through the recruitment and selection process.
About Golf Town
Recognized as Canada’s Home of Golf, we have everything customers need to play their very best, including teams of talented associates from coast to coast who are devoted to the game and in-store experience. Since 1999, we’ve been inspiring golf fans from far and wide to learn, try, buy, and experience everything they need to play and improve their game.
Our big box stores, which average 18,000 square feet, carry a wide selection of all the top brand names in clubs, bags and balls, to footwear, apparel, and accessories.
We don’t only welcome our customers to shop our best brands, but we encourage them to experience the brands we carry too. Our experienced staff and golf simulators provide an experience our customers crave and why golfers love to visit any one of 47 stores. As a Golf Town team member and expert in golf, you’ll live and breathe our vision in elevating our brand and customer experience, and you'll get to be a part of growing the game in our communities. You’ll enjoy working in a fun, fast paced environment and keeping up with the latest and greatest in golf. Inspiring and connecting with our customers through our shared passion for the game is the fun part, and why we all love contributing to a great place to shop and a great place to work.
Top Benefits
About the role
Golf Town is a proudly Canadian golf superstore.
From drivers and irons to apparel, footwear, and accessories, we offer the best gear and custom fitting services to help golfers play their best since 1999.
As part of Sporting Life Group, alongside Sporting Life and Team Town, we are dedicated to sharing our passion and growing the game.
Why Work Here;
- Employee discounts at Golf Town, Sporting Life, and Team Town Sports that are shareable with friends and family.
- Team-first culture committed to sharing our passion and growing the game.
- Fun, fast-paced environment where learning about the latest golf gear is part of the job.
- Personal Use Discounts and expert product training to stay sharp and play your best.
- Competitive pay, comprehensive benefits (health, dental, vision), and opportunities to grow your career in the sports lifestyle.
What You’ll Do;
As a Planner with Golf Town, you’ll build merchandise financial plans that influence sales, profits, and inventory performance at the category level across Canada’s premier golf retailer.
You’ll partner closely with Buyers and senior leaders in providing analysis, forecasting insights, and clear recommendations that guide seasonal buys, Open-to-Buy (OTB) decisions, markdown strategies, and stock movement.
Within this role you'll be connecting numbers to action and keeping teams aligned to financial goals, putting you at the centre of the business.
- Manage and maintain merchandise financial plans by category, supplying summaries, forecasts, and allocation recommendations for merchants, Buyers, and the executive team, including bi-annual and mid-month reviews.
- Develop, analyse, and present a wide range of sales, inventory, stock-movement, and pre-season reports (daily, weekly, monthly, seasonal) to support assortment planning, replenishment strategies, and seasonal sign-offs.
- Review Open-to-Buy performance weekly, monthly, and year-to-date; recommend inventory requirements; support rolling 12-month forecasts; review open orders; and help manage core SKUs by store.
- Lead markdown analysis and execution, including summary reporting, recommending next steps, approving markdown manifests, and managing releases to stores.
- Provide key financial and business insights, including slow seller and aging analysis, season-end performance packages, and vendor three-year plan preparation, to support merchant planning and market meetings.
- Advise cross-functional partners by identifying actions, tracking progress against goals, and helping ensure all financial targets are met.
What You’ll Bring;
- Post-secondary education (University preferred) with a focus on retail, marketing or finance.
- 5+ years’ work experience in retail planning, buying or merchandising.
- Business knowledge of retail inventory management, merchandising concepts and operations.
- Proficient in retail math in a retail multi-brand environment with advanced Excel skills.
- Proven track record in inventory, sales and margin management.
- Excellent written and verbal communication skills in English.
- Strong organizational and time management skills, working in a fast-paced team environment while multitasking and adapting to current business trends.
- Knowledge and passion for Golf!
Golf Town Limited is an equal opportunity employer and committed to providing accommodations for persons with disabilities. In accordance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act, please advise the Golf Town Human Resources team of any accommodations required to ensure fair and equitable access through the recruitment and selection process.
About Golf Town
Recognized as Canada’s Home of Golf, we have everything customers need to play their very best, including teams of talented associates from coast to coast who are devoted to the game and in-store experience. Since 1999, we’ve been inspiring golf fans from far and wide to learn, try, buy, and experience everything they need to play and improve their game.
Our big box stores, which average 18,000 square feet, carry a wide selection of all the top brand names in clubs, bags and balls, to footwear, apparel, and accessories.
We don’t only welcome our customers to shop our best brands, but we encourage them to experience the brands we carry too. Our experienced staff and golf simulators provide an experience our customers crave and why golfers love to visit any one of 47 stores. As a Golf Town team member and expert in golf, you’ll live and breathe our vision in elevating our brand and customer experience, and you'll get to be a part of growing the game in our communities. You’ll enjoy working in a fun, fast paced environment and keeping up with the latest and greatest in golf. Inspiring and connecting with our customers through our shared passion for the game is the fun part, and why we all love contributing to a great place to shop and a great place to work.