Merchandise Planner: Textiles

HomeChoice is a leading omni-channel retailer, delighting our customers with an innovative range of curated products on personalized terms. Our aim is to provide multiple, convenient and easy retail shopping channels to guarantee that we meet all our customer expectations.

The purpose of the Merchandise Planner is to ensure the business presents the best product offering to the right customers to maximize profitability.

**Here's what you expect to be doing in the role**
- Conduct competitor research and understand and interpret trends in the market and our customer base.
- Develop pre-season sales, gross margin, and inventory plans rooted in deep knowledge of our customer behavior.
- Use analytics to drive efficient inventory planning in order to maximize sales and bottom line profitability.
- Collaborate with Marketing to ensure most effective profits are marketed to the right customers.
- Partner with the product owner to drive automation and system development delivering on the merchandise digitization strategy.
- Partner in developing data strategies and managing product data to enable precision customer thinking.

**A little about who you are**
- Tertiary qualification/degree in a relevant field
- Minimum of 3 years of Merchandise Planning experience
- Experience in planning têxtiles - Advantageous

**Competencies**
- Strong trader instinct
- Digital Fluency
- Adaptability
- Excellent analytical, numeracy, and problem-solving skills
- Have the ability to build strong supplier relationships
- Strong organization, planning, and time management skills
- Proficient capabilities in Microsoft Outlook, Word, and Excel

**Our Values**
- Keep Innovating - we have the courage to contribute new ideas and turn those ideas into reality.
- Think like an entrepreneur - we treat the business like it's our own.
- Keep it real - we are mindful of the impact of our words and actions.\
- Raise the bar - we strive to deliver excellence in everything that we do.