Junior E-commerce Planner at Ares Holdings

Job Description

Job Summary

• This position is required to work closely with the Planner to analyse customer activity, forecast sales, select forward-trending merchandise and replenish stores optimally to maximise trading opportunities and minimise stock holdings in store. 

Key Performance Area

 Stock Management

• Implementing stock plans to ensure that strategic objectives are executed
• Monitoring customer orders
• Order Tracking as required
• Execute allocations to Ecom both seasonal and refill
• Ensuring product plan meets location plan targets and correct stock allocations meet sales targets
• Ensuring sufficient inflows of product to meet acceptable in stock percentages in order to maintaining agreed replenishment service levels and agreed planograms for locations
• Management of the seasonal flow of range assortments
• Ensure this meets the agreed seasonal selection as per ranges selected
• Ensure that stock percentages are maintained
• Ensure that trading pattern analysis are communicated to the team regularly

Product Analytics 

• Analysis of sell through with necessary systems (Excel, Shopify and SAP B1) to optimize replenishment.
• Analyse where necessary to understand trading patterns
• Assist in monitoring in season trade and react accordingly 
• Ensure end uses (Categories) are given the best possible space optimization to ensure sales efficiencies
• Analyse sells through weekly and monthly
• Ensure that trading pattern analysis are communicated to the team regularly
• Feedback on what are the overstocks and understocks, and which categories are over and underperforming
• Sales analysis on categories to show efficient sales

General

• Assist with any adhoc duties
• Maintaining a professional imagine whilst in the office e or travelling.

Qualifications and Skills:

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Degree in Retail, Business or any other related field
• 3+ years’ experience in merchandise planning and allocating in a retail environment
• Strategic agility and able to articulate a vision and purpose.
• Advanced Excel skills

Perks & Benefits

• You get to work for a rapidly expanding distributor with aspirational brands
• Gym & Shower facilities
• Personal Trainer
• Yoga
• Pension Fund
• Medical aid with Gap cover
• Staff Allocation (R10 000 Retail Value per annum).
• Staff discount (50% off for you and your family across all the brands within the group)
• Healthy Lunch subsidy
• Company performance incentive scheme
• Long-service incentives
• Holistic Employee Wellness programme
• The group prides itself in its effort to drive continuous employee engagement activities to enable a connected culture.

Closing Date 03 September 2025