Planner - Menswear

Essential Requirements:

- Are you currently (or very recently) a Ladieswear or Menswear Merchandise Planner WITHIN a Fashion Retail company/environment?
- Do you have 3 to 5 YEARS (or more) experience as a Merchandise Planner?
- Have you successfully completed a Degree or 3 Year Diploma in Retail or Finance or similar?
- Do you have a proven successful employment record?

Brief Job Outline:

- Drive sales and profitability (GP) through the category management of sales, stock, OTB and margin.
- Collate / Manipulate data for manual input into planning tool.
- Forecast sales and stock on the planning templates based on current trend, performance and opportunities.
- Ensure that category stock holding is in line with budget / forecast and manage the OTB accordingly.
- Make commercial recommendations based on current trade and propose actions.
- Assortment planning and assist 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 with 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.
- Strategically manage stock and produce accurate figures for analysis.
- Grading stores and calculating units 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.

Thank you.

Kourie Recruitment

**Job Types**: Full-time, Permanent