Our Clothing Retail Client is currently looking for a Merchandise Planner based in Durban North.Remuneration:Basic Salary of R25k/R30k – R60kThis amount will be a total CTC (no pension or medical aid – candidate 100% responsible for their own so must factor this into the salary).Working Hours either 07:00 – 16:00 or 08:00 – 17:00 (Close earlier on a Friday).Preferred Qualification and Experience:Grade 12/MatricRelevant 3-year Degree/DiplomaMin 3-5 years relevant Retail Planning experience accountable for own area and managing allocators/order clerks.Apparel/Accessories/Footwear experience is a preference.Knowledge, Skills and Abilities Required: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 the forecasting aspect of planning and interaction of key KPI's.Strong merchant, trader, and commercial mentality.Team collaborator who is strategic and forward-thinking.Strong planning, organizing, administrating, and coordinating skills.Job Spec:To drive sales and profitability (GP) through the category management of sales, stock, OTB, and margin.Collate/manipulate data for manual input into the planning tool.Forecast sales and stock on the planning templates based on current trends, performance, and opportunities.Ensure that category stock holding is in line with the budget/forecast and manage the OTB accordingly.Make commercial recommendations based on current trade and propose actions.Assortment planning and assisting 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 of 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.Working closely in a team with buyers and allocators to make sure the range is executed.Liaise with buying departments regarding style performance.Controlling the budget and managing the supply chain of the different categories/departments.Strategically manage stock and produce accurate figures for analysis.Grading stores and calculating unit 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.Maintaining store stock levels for core merchandise.Other ad hoc reporting.Please take note: if you have not been contacted within 14 days, please consider your application unsuccessful.
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