Merchandise Planner - Al Mana

Role Objectice:

The Merchandiser planner is responsible for maintaining and managing stock inventory activities, analyzing sales, stock forecasting and budget planning .Manage the stock consolidation. Review the end to end buy planning, stock allocation and replenishment process.

Core Responsibilities:

• Reporting and analytics for senior management team
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• Sales, stock forecasting and budget planning at a departmental and supplier level
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• Supporting buyers with forecasting, budgeting and assortment planning
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• Liaising with finance team on retail sales forecasting and budgeting to support financial planning of P&L’s, stock levels, cash flow etc…
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• Support senior management to set and monitor KPI performance including stock turn, margin, cover, %age sell-thru, option counts and SKU efficiency
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• Supporting buyers through the sell-in and ordering process to ensure that buys are aligned to KPI’s, on budget and supported with data when required
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• Report and analyze to support key strategic brand partners including suppliers – working with account management team on data sharing and business planning
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• Manage branch grading and assortment planning to ensure branch level ‘consumer right’ assortments and inventory
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• Manage the stock consolidation process to maximize sell-thru and maintain margin
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• Review the end-to-end buy planning, stock allocation and replenishment processes to ensure best practices and efficiencies
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• Analyzing past sales figures/trends to anticipate future product
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• Allocating certain amounts of stock to each outlet throughout the season, to minimize unnecessary stock holdings for maximum budgetary
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• Working with Planning Manager to create open to buy forecasts, re-forecast sales and managing inventory for all basic styles to meet department financial
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• Recapping and analyzing actual sales results to plan and forecasting in-season sales and inventories on a weekly, monthly, and quarterly basis
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Job Details

Preferred Candidate