Location Planning Manager Miladys at Mr Price Group

• To develop divisional capability for Location Planning in order to maximise location specific demand and to enable growth. Leadership of the planning teams to formulate, control and drive the portfolio performance, according to the company’s strategic objectives and seasonal financial strategies in order to drive sales and profitability by providing a delightful in store experience for the customer through ensuring the right product, at the right price is in the right place at the right time. Development of respective processes to align and enable merchandise functioning in line with support teams to foster working relations and successful achievement of strategic KPIs.

Responsibilities
what will you do?
 
Management:

• Management of the Location Planning function with regards to achieving team KPI's / targets by bringing alignment at a strategic level, ensuring workload is effectively distributed and individuals are engaged in line with the business' priorities in order to translate the planning strategy into an operational plan. 
• Enablement of international/location planning and merchandise teams to operate efficiently and in alignment with strategic and operational requirements. 

Strategic Alignment:

• Oversee the implementation of the divisional International and Location Planning strategy and provide SME recommendations to continually align actions to the completion of key projects and the overall business strategy success.

Trade Optimisation:

• Continuously identifying areas of opportunity and risk within the current execution of planned location specific stock and sales forecasted and the development/implementation of strategic actions to correct the projection in order to maintain the forecasted sales trajectory.

Location Planning:

• Maximising store specific business opportunities across all locations to increase company sales opportunities by non-comparative activity.

Stock Optimisation:

• Continuously managing and guiding the correct distribution of stock brought into the business across locations to achieve maximum return on investment.

Key Projects:

• Leading of continuous improvement projects within the International Retail and Location Planning function aimed to optimise business processes and achieve the execution of the business' strategic imperatives.

Qualifications
do you tick all the boxes?

Education:

• Degree or diploma in Commerce/Maths/Stats 

Experience:

• 5-7 years location/international/merchandise planning experience
• 2-3 years management experience

Specific Knowledge:

• MSOffice, Management, Value Chain, Import/Export Processes, Global Retail, Trend Analysis, Sales/Stock Forecasting, Communication, Strategy, Project Management, Profitability Metrics

Business Understanding:

• Merch processes, DC/SC/Shipping processes, Redworld MIS, Redworld, Efocus, Rpas, BI, High Jump