11 Oct
The HR
Durban
Reference: Dur000235-Kerry-1
Well established and fast-growing retailer is recruiting a Senior Retail Planner. The Planner's primary function is to drive sales and profitability (GP) through the category management of sales, stock, OTB and margin.
Key Requirements:
- Grade 12/ Matric
- Relevant 3-year Degree/ Diploma
- Min 3-5 years relevant Retail Planning experience accountable for own area and managing allocators / order clerks.
- Advanced knowledge of excel, retail systems and general computer skills
- Must be able to run pivot tables and do vlookup functions and create and maintain advanced reports
- Must understand forecasting aspect of planning and interaction of key KPI's.
- Good articulation with excellent English written & verbal communication skills
- Good numerical, analytical thinking & logical problem-solving skills
- Strong merchant, trader and commercial mentality
- Attention to detail
Job functions:
- Forecast sales and stock on the planning templates based on current trend, performance and opportunities.
- Ensure that category stock holding is in line with budget / forecast and manage the OTB accordingly.
- Make commercial recommendations based on current trade and propose actions.
- Assortment planning and assist in product ranging.
- Analyse size curves at store level as well as other key user defined attributes.
- Seasonal analysis and post mortem with corresponding strategy and range planning.
- Responsible for developing and translating departmental pre-season merchandise strategies into executable in-season merchandise plans.
- Establish pre-season sales and margin plans, together with the inventory levels required to support them.
- In season,
re-project sales and markdowns in consideration with the impact on margin.
- Manage the allocation teams to balance inventory and assortment across the stores to ensure the right stock is in the right store at the right time.
- Provide financial strategies for sales, markdowns, inventory and gross margin, and also responsible for accurate in-season forecasting, driving course corrections and improvements based on variances between actual results and the plan.
- Work closely in a team with buyers and allocators to make sure the range is executed.
- Liaise with buying departments regarding style performance.
- Control the budget and manage the supply chain of the different categories / departments.
- Strategically manage stock and produce accurate figures for analysis.
- Grade stores and calculate units buys for the buying team in order to support the strategy.
▶️ Senior Retail Planner
🖊️ The HR
📍 Durban