Planner - Menswear - Durban North, South Africa - Kourie Recruitment cc

Kourie Recruitment cc

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Durban North, South Africa

1 week ago

Posted by:

Thabo Mthembu

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Description

Essential Requirements:

Are you currently (or very recently) a Ladieswear or Menswear Merchandise Planner WITHIN a Fashion Retail company/environment?
Do you have 3 to 5 YEARS (or more) experience as a Merchandise Planner?
Have you successfully completed a Degree or 3 Year Diploma in Retail or Finance or similar?
Do you have a proven successful employment record?

Brief Job Outline:

Drive sales and profitability (GP) through the category management of sales, stock, OTB and margin.
Collate / Manipulate data for manual input into planning tool.
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 preseason merchandise strategies into executable inseason merchandise plans.
Establish preseason sales and margin plans, together with the inventory levels required to support them.
In season, reproject 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 inseason forecasting, driving course corrections and improvements based on variances between actual results and the plan.
Working closely in a team with buyers and allocators to make sure the range is executed.
Strategically manage stock and produce accurate figures for analysis.
Grading stores and calculating units buys for the buying team in order to support the strategy.
Oversee and work with Allocators to correctly distribute stock to stores through allocations, consolidations and stock movements.