Merchandise Planner

3 weeks ago

Southern Suburbs, South Africa Homechoice Full time

homechoice is a leading South African homeware retailer. For over 35 years we’ve helped our customers create beautiful homes they love with an innovative range of quality products they can afford.

**What you will love doing in this role**
- You love insight-led solutions and analyse sales and other metrics to create realistic sales and buy plans that will delight our customers who are looking for quality and value
- You love wowing customers and are always looking for sales opportunities to create products and offers that meet their needs and expectations
- You love playing as a team and working with buyers to deliver products that are aligned with category strategies and meet price point, sales and margin targets
- You love exploring opportunities and with your ‘trader’ mentality forecasts and reproject sales, margin and stock to maximise sales and profitability
- You love taking accountability and dealing with our suppliers, maintaining beneficial relationships according to strict SLAs
- You love delivering on your promises and work closely and effectively with teams across the business to deliver on big ideas that align with our DNA and delight our customers

**What we will love about you**
- We love your strong analytical, numeracy and problem-solving skills
- We love your entrepreneurial and innovative mindset
- We love your ability to build long-lasting supplier (internal and external) relationships
- We love your digital fluency and understanding of the online retail world and how this drives sales
- We love that you put our customers as the heart of everything when you source and design products

**What you'll need to do this role**
- Bachelor’s degree (Business Science/BCom/BSc)
- 3-5 years of retail experience (e-commerce is preferable but not a requirement)
- Competency in MS Office packages, particularly Excel

**Behaviours we love**
- Wow my **customer**
- Walk in my customers’ shoes
- Deliver on my promises
- Deliver insight-led solutions my customers need
- treat the business as **my own**
- Take accountability
- Be curious, creative & explore opportunities
- Do it right & at the right time
- play as a **team**
- Be helpful
- Be inclusive
- Find the fun

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