Our Clothing Retail Client is currently looking for a Merchandise Planner based in Durban North .
Remuneration:
- Basic Salary of R25k/R30k – R60k
- This amount will be a total CTC (no pension or medical aid – candidate 100% responsible for their own so must factor this into the salary).
- Working Hours either 07:00 – 16:00 or 08:00 – 17:00 (Close earlier on a Friday).
Preferred Qualification and Experience:
- Grade 12/Matric
- Relevant 3-year Degree/Diploma
- Min 3-5 years relevant Retail Planning experience accountable for own area and managing allocators/order clerks.
- Apparel/Accessories/Footwear experience is a preference.
Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required:
- Advanced knowledge of Excel, retail systems, and general computer skills.
- Must be able to run pivot tables and do VLOOKUP functions and create and maintain advanced reports.
- Must understand the forecasting aspect of planning and interaction of key KPI’s.
- Strong merchant, trader, and commercial mentality.
- Team collaborator who is strategic and forward-thinking.
- Strong planning, organizing, administrating, and coordinating skills.
Job Spec:
- To drive sales and profitability (GP) through the category management of sales, stock, OTB, and margin.
- Collate/manipulate data for manual input into the planning tool.
- Forecast sales and stock on the planning templates based on current trends, performance, and opportunities.
- Ensure that category stock holding is in line with the budget/forecast and manage the OTB accordingly.
- Make commercial recommendations based on current trade and propose actions.
- Assortment planning and assisting in product ranging.
- Analyse size curves at store level as well as other key user-defined attributes.
- Seasonal analysis and post-mortem with corresponding strategy and range planning.
- Responsible for developing and translating departmental pre-season merchandise strategies into executable in-season merchandise plans.
- Establish pre-season sales and margin plans, together with the inventory levels required to support them.
- In season, re-project sales and markdowns in consideration of the impact on margin.
- Manage the allocation teams to balance inventory and assortment across the stores to ensure the right stock is in the right store at the right time.
- Provide financial strategies for sales, markdowns, inventory, and gross margin, and also responsible for accurate in-season forecasting, driving course corrections and improvements based on variances between actual results and the plan.
- Working closely in a team with buyers and allocators to make sure the range is executed.
- Liaise with buying departments regarding style performance.
- Controlling the budget and managing the supply chain of the different categories/departments.
- Strategically manage stock and produce accurate figures for analysis.
- Grading stores and calculating unit buys for the buying team in order to support the strategy.
- Oversee and work with Allocators to correctly distribute stock to stores through allocations, consolidations, and stock movements.
- Maintaining store stock levels for core merchandise.
- Other ad hoc reporting.
Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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