About The Role
The Planner – Online Department stores is responsible for delivering the division/brand merchandise strategy through development of the seasonal and yearly product and location sales plans, including forecasting and allocation of product; with a view to maximizing sales and gross margin.

What You’ll Be Doing
Functional Roles and Responsibilities:

• Communicate trading issues and forecasts with proposed actions to senior management and Buying team

• Build and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers

• Manage all aspects relating to shipments, logistical processing and allocation function

• Analyze Suppliers’ delivery performance and, in conjunction with the Buying team, take appropriate actions

• Contribute to future supplier strategies

• Measure products’ performance against agreed quality standards and take necessary action with suppliers

• Assist in the decision-making and problem solving on supplier / brand / partner issues

• Ensure team results, relationships and processes are aligned with the Company‘s mission, values and policies.

• Deliver category sales, gross margin and sell-through performance to plan

• Participate in the development of annual sales budgets and forecasts for specific brands by analyzing data on seasonal/ yearly trends

• Identify and evaluate sales and gross margin opportunities at department level

• Review, propose and implement mark-down activity to reduce terminal stock, whilst analyzing action taken on mark-downs to maximize profit

• Monitor performance against plan, taking appropriate action to maximize sales and margins

• Develop and maintain effective working partnership with divisions particularly Retail Managers / Store Managers / Logistics and Operations

• Drive decision-making and problem solving relating to merchandise issues at division and location level

• Ensure efficiency and effectiveness of merchandising business processes

• Implement the agreed departmental strategy, in conjunction with the Buying team

• Implement the agreed markdown strategy and communicate to stakeholders

• Maintain OTB to manage forward buys in-line with department inventory targets

• Manage communication and coordination with stores regarding price changes, product discontinuation, and brand / item focus

• Evaluate market and customer information together with historical data and forward trends to develop the merchandise plans

• Work with relevant stakeholders to monitor overall inventory levels to plan and forecast

• Manage and review replenishment orders for the relevant products base

About You

You need to have the below skills, qualification and experience to qualify for the role:

• University Degree in any discipline
• 5-7 years experience successfully implementing planning function of large scale retail operations.
• Strong strategy and budgeting experience in Omni channels.
• Computer literacy, super user in MS Office like Excel, Power point and major ERP systems
• Strong analytical skills and in depth knowledge of the industry
• Able to communicate effectively at Management Level
• Excellent in prioritizing and meeting deadlines
• Strong interpersonal skills.

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