Retail Planner

Responsibilities:

• Analyze data or insights to determine industry and consumer trends.
• Foster trust relationships with vendors to achieve better pricing and quality of services.
• Place appropriate orders to ensure product availability that meets consumer demands.
• Liaise with marketing teams to determine competitive pricing and promotional activities of a product category.
• Provide high-level coordination and technical expertise to ensure effective
• Management of the strategic planning process to ensure effective implementationof the new strategy.
• Designing and implementing a business planning framework to support the
• Implementation of our Strategic Plan.
• Managing the development of a new business and financial model aligned to thenew strategy.
• Managing the design, monitoring and reporting of key organizational performance
• Measures including financial performance.
• Devising a merchandising plan using the above
• Devising a contract for the suppliers, including quality control, accuracy and flexibility, which is done throughout the season.
• Allocating certain amounts of stock to each outlet throughout the season, to minimize unnecessary stock holdings for maximum budgetary
• Helping build, reconcile and aligning sales and inventory plans to achieve financial objectives
• Preparing and updating monthly open-to-buy forecasts
• Maximizing sales, turn and profitability
• Helping assess and identifying brand opportunities
• Developing and maintaining effective relationships with members of cross-functional teams
• Collaborating with team to ensure consistency of information, share best practices and develop systems knowledge
• Assisting in planning/forecasting markdown activity.
• Support the department’s weekly reporting needs
• Maintain and update the open-to-buy daily, weekly and monthly, as needed
• Participate in a cross-functional team

Skills:

• Excellent listening, verbal and written communication skills.
• Excellent logical analysis, problem-solving and decision making skills.
• Strong planning and organizational skills.
• Experience in Excel other Microsoft applications, including Outlook, Power Point and Word.