Merchandise Planner - Kitchen at Yuppiechef

Yuppiechef is looking for a goal-driven and self-motivated Merchandise Planner to join our Planning team. We want you because you have a strong eye for quality product, backed with a solid flair for numbers and analysing. Your understanding of what drives the bottom line and what actions to take to truly make an impact makes you the game-changer we’re looking for.

Our team started as two good friends and only 32 products in a lounge in Cape Town, and now we stock a range of over 10 000 curated products from over 500 leading brands and our omni-channel business is growing faster than ever!

We help people find more moments of joy in their homes, through products that make daily life more delicious, more comfortable, more innovative and more beautiful. We offer a world-class service to our customers both in our stores and online - wherever it suits them best.

Who you are

You have the ability to grow and adapt to an ever-changing environment where new processes and technologies are part of the norm. Your passion for retail, knowledge of Appliances, affiliation for figures, organisational skills and efficiency makes you indispensable to the team. It excites you to continually look for ways to work better, faster and more efficiently that benefit the business and maximise each hour of the day.

What you’ll do

You will be responsible for getting the right stock at the right store at the right time for both retail and e-commerce store locations. This will involve collaborating across multiple business units to showcase and manage stock levels of our extensive product range.

Your areas of responsibility 

• Calculate stock needed for successful marketing campaigns (online and in stores)
• Optimizing flow of stock and inventory turn in your category 
• Work closely with category buyers on season strategy incorporating reviews of past category/concept performance, agree on investment for the future
• Forecasting and ordering stock needed for expected sales and managing overstocks, should sales not happen as planned
• Build and maintain collaborative partnerships and communicate effectively with suppliers  and internal team members
• Compiling and analysing reports on product performance.  Recommending actions based on data reported. 
• Ensure SLA’s are confirmed with internal and key suppliers

What experience and skills you need for the role

This role is best suited for an innovative, organised, proactive problem-solver with the following skills;

• 3-5 years working in an Inventory or Merchandise Planning role
• A high degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed and strategic approach to work
• Excellent attention to detail
• Strong business acumen and entrepreneurial thinking
• Strong affiliation to systems and utilising them to increase productivity in line with the  Planning Strategy
• Good organisational and interpersonal skills
• Excellent communication and negotiation skills
• Enjoy working with people to resolve problems with a focus on finding workable solutions within often tight deadlines
• Driven by improving processes and finding new effective ways to do things
• Experience in a complex, data-driven, high-volume and fast-paced environment where agility is key
• General operational problem-solving experience 

 Environment

• Fully equipped, communal kitchen where you can use the tools we sell

• A fully-stocked coffee station where you can hone your barista skills

• Monthly company-wide meetings where we celebrate the month gone by and chat about the future

• Parking available