Senior Location Planner Miladys
5 months ago
Under general direction create the department's astute pre-season & in-season store sales plans that meet the store's needs in terms of the correct buy shape per store profile & maximize store sales, clearance and space.
Qualifications: 1. Education:
2. Experience:
- At least 3 years' experience as a Location planner (excluding time as a Trainee/Junior)
- Experience mentoring and coaching in Location
- Proven track record with the success in development of Trainees & Juniors within Location
- Completed all available planner classroom training
- Deep functional expertise in Location planning
- Proven performance and experience in variety of products
3. Knowledge/ Skills:
- Knowledge on Current Trade.
- Skills pertaining to Post Mortem reports.
- Skills and ability to build a Seasonal Strategy & Assortment.
Responsibilities: 1. Current Trade:
- Extract & analyse store KPI's by sub department season.
- Complete a draft report highlighting all issues impacting performance.
- Lead a discussion to develop an action plan that will maximize store sales, clearance & space.
- Collaborating with the merchant planner re-forecast in-season store sales to adjust for the current trade variances.
- Convert the store sales plan to a stock plan in OTS (Open to Ship) in order to adjust SAS (Strategic Allocation System) allocations.
- Report variances & action plan in store size service levels & store cover ratios.
2. Post Mortem:
- Collaborating with the merchant planner to review the previous season's zero-based plan (ZBP) in order to conclude the previous seasons missed opportunities.
- Summarize in a post-mortem the previous seasons performance (sub department. store season KPI's, grade & portfolio) based off current trade reports & compile key lessons learnt.
- Complete store grading in APS (Assortment Planning System) in order to provide the merchant planning team with unit buy recommendations which will inform their strategy.
3. Seasonal Strategy:
- Collaborating with the merchant planner develop a seasonal strategy for the sub department which will include strategic objectives & a top line financial plan which is aligned to the previous seasons post mortem & growth opportunities in comparable, new, enhanced stores as well as reduced & discontinued stores.
- Contribute to the strategy discussion & aggregate the seasonal strategy to be presented to the management team ensuring it is aligned to key company growth initiatives.
4. Building an Assortment:
- Collaborating with the merchant planner build the assortment plan in order to balance the assortment back to key strategic store requirements.
- Amend where required store grading & unit buys in order to finalize assortment to buy.
- Contribute to the preparation of the required presentation documents in order to articulate variances to strategy in respect of profiles, grades & stores.
5. Product Allocation/Stock Allocation:
- Collaborate with Trainee Location Planner &/or Junior Location Planner to ensure all store performance deviations are actioned prior to final allocation finalization.
- Adjust & balance the forward allocations checking that required units per store are met & that the strategic assortment shape is executed as per the OTS (Open to Ship) plan.
- Monitor units being accrued for new store openings & report on variances.
- Perform store consolidations in order to optimize store stock levels.
6. Coaching & Development:
- Provide direction & mentorship to Trainee's, Juniors and Location planners
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