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  • Posted: May 31, 2024
    Deadline: Not specified
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  • Ares Holdings, a South African company, connects global brands with Southern African consumers through a multi-channel network encompassing 2500+ wholesale doors, 50+ retail stores, and e-commerce platforms. Our business model promotes long-term and sustainable brand growth within the footwear, apparel, and accessories sector.
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    Merchandising and Planning Manager – Fast Growing Premium Fashion Brand

    Roles and responsibilities

    Merchandising

    • Understand the business strategy and drive the development of product strategies by channel and range
    • Ensure optimal samples are ordered in accordance with planned merchandising strategies
    • Ensure that the buy-plans are well detailed and clearly understood by all relevant stakeholders
    • Evaluate customer sales through data and trading patterns
    • Manage a consumption tool to react early to effectively plan across channels
    • With the sales and marketing functions, manage the full GTM sales process from planning, co-ordinating and developing sales tools that directly support the sell-in process for both existing and new accounts (catalogues, pricelist lists, order forms, delivery dates, showroom prep, catering, trade marketing support)
    • Ensure segmentation of the product line to address account needs and to differentiate between WS and PTC channels

    Planning

    • Implement the integrated planning process that deals with customer demand, upselling opportunities, EOL and stock management
    • Manage planning tool to establish quantities to be purchased for the season per channel
    • Evaluate all order or cancellation opportunities
    • Ensure purchase orders are placed with company suppliers in line with companies OTB budgets
    • Ensure stock turn objectives and profit targets are met
    • Ensuring that Retail buy-plans are well detailed and clearly understood by team members and relevant stakeholders
    • Management of the Retail range assortments and replenishment
    • Analysis of Retail sell through with necessary systems (Excel, Cictech and SAP B1) to optimize seasonal orders and replenishment to stores.
    • Communicating with Stores where necessary to understand trading patterns
    • Monitoring in season trade and react accordingly
    • 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
    • Ensure space optimization per store in accordance with sell through information (Gender, Silhouette, colour etc.)
    • Providing accurate and timeous reporting to ensure the business can react to situations and management has the necessary information to minimise risk and optimise business opportunities. 

    Supply Chain

    • Meet range development deadlines in order to ensure supplier deadlines are met
    • Ensure accurate requested ship dates to ease cash flow pressures
    • Establish and maintain realistic supply-chain based performance deadlines, lead times etc.
    • Manage the reconciliation of OOR against purchase order identifying irregularities and highlighting this to the Planners
    • Manage the delivery of samples to Head Office as necessary maintaining responsibility for this inventory until signed over to the relevant merchant
    • Split Purchase Orders to reflect shipping inventory and communicate this to all parties
    • Establish shipment plan and identify consolidation opportunities for cost reduction based on OOR reconciliation

    Stockholder Management

    • Build relationships with key stakeholders (Group Planning Lead etc.), customers, supplier and partners

    Reporting

    • Develop and continually evaluate all reports in order to monitor stock arrival in SA, sales, history, seasonal sales analysis, aged inventory etc.
    • Provide monthly reports as required by management from time to time.

    People Management

    • Ensure role clarity and effective goal-setting
    • Mentor and coach the Planners, Junior Planner and Inventory Controller to ensure to ensure an optimal team strategy is achieved
    • Handle IR issues and performance management and discuss disciplinary requirements with HCM
    • Manage the GOLP process of for all team members
    • Monitor the application of the HR Value Chain and adherence to people-related SOP’s

    Requirements:

    • Relevant Degree (B-Com) or related Diploma in Retail Management/Planning/Supply Chain/Merchandise Management
    • 3 - 5 years’ experience in a similar role
    • 3 - 5 years’ Management experience
    • Knowledge of an ERP system
    • A strong understanding of fashion retail and the market opportunities within the retail, wholesale and e-commerce sector
    • Ability to dissect large/complex data into meaningful and easy to understand reports
    • Budgeting and forecasting
    • Capacity to collaborate, integrate & facilitate teamwork (ability to network, build and sustain stakeholder relationships internally as well as with external stakeholders is critical)
    • Business and commercial acumen
    • Excellent negotiation and communication skills
    • Highly organized and deadline driven
    • Advanced Report Writing
    • High attention to detail
    • Advanced Excel
    • Own vehicle

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