Senior Merchandise Planner at Superbalist.com

Job description

The Role:

• Profit Maximisation
• Preparation of budgets, sales, stock and profit targets.
• Monitor performance against plan, taking appropriate action to maximise sales and profit and reduce stockholding whilst increasing stock turn.
• Identify new business opportunities to grow sales and profitability.
• Review, propose and implement mark-down activity to reduce terminal stock whilst analysing action taken on mark-downs to maximise profit.
• Communicate trading issues and forecasts with proposed actions to management and buyer.
• Implement promotional plans to optimise sales and profit.
• Measure brand/supplier performance against targets and make recommendations to grow or exit.

Range Building and Planning

• Develop and agree plans in partnership with the buyer that achieve sales and profit targets and implement the agreed departmental strategy.
• In conjunction with the buyer, build balanced and profitable seasonal range plans.
• Evaluate market and customer information together with historical data to develop the department’s phased stock plans and pricing strategy.

Inventory/Commitment Management

• Manage and forecast the intake of stock in line with agreed OTB stock levels.
• Plan and implement replenishment volumes for continuity product.
• Monitor and manage the availability of stock.
• Promote stock efficiency through in season trading whilst managing forward covers.
• Collaborate with Supply chain to ensure planned launch and replenishment dates are met.
• Manage terminal stock.
• Manage volume buys and optimal size ratio’s.

Key Skills and Experience

• Bachelor’s degree with at least 2 quantitative subjects.
• Proven work experience of at least 5 years in the Clothing/Footwear/Homeware retail market
• At least 2 years operating as a Senior Planner.
• A high degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed and strategic approach to work.
• Advanced computer literacy in excel and planning systems.

Key Competencies and Attributes

• Strong business acumen and merchant thinking.
• Good organisational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven decision-making ability.