Merchandise Planning Analyst

3 days ago


Cape Town, Western Cape, South Africa Clicks Group Limited Full time
About the Role

This exciting opportunity has arisen for an experienced Assortment Optimisation Analyst to join our Merchandise team in Cape Town.

The successful candidate will have a proven track record in developing and implementing optimal product range strategies that drive sales growth and exceed customer expectations.

Key Responsibilities:

  • Develop and maintain assortment plans for the Category while investigating category trends of top and bottom performing products on a regular basis.
  • Drive new product line and assortment strategies with the buyers to ensure innovation and alignment with our customer profiles.
  • Consult with merchandise leadership on the right product mix and assortment related to what their customer cares about most and ensure that this is supported by current data.
  • Analyze actual business performance relative to plans and trends, reporting variances to plan.

Requirements:

  • At least 3 years of experience in retail or e-commerce, focusing on merchandising assortment and planning/analysis.
  • A background in business intelligence tools data mining techniques.
  • Aptitude to assess and analyze internal & external data points & insights, managing, facilitate & deliver focused opportunity targets and vendor negotiation opportunity.


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