Assistant Planner

1 week ago


Gauteng, South Africa The Foschini Group Full time

**Key Responsibilities**:

- Understand the property plan, its impact on your functional area, and communicate to team
- Ensure that all location plans within functional area are aligned to the master location plan, driven by the property plan
- Maintain a 12-month rolling location forecast, and drive appropriate measures to improve forecast accuracy
- Collaborate with Product Planning peers to ensure that location forecasts and product forecasts are aligned
- Develop and implement methodologies to enhance product availability through managing store segmentation, width and depth and space planning effectively
- Develop and implement location strategies
- Monitor store stock levels, product performance and react accordingly to achieve a balanced assortment in each store
- Conduct ongoing research of local stores and markets, trends, competitor activities to drive innovation and best practice methodologies to create and maintain competitive advantage
- Use appropriate tools and systems to finalise and implement agreed alocation plans
- Analyse and evaluate past store / product performance and consider trends, supplier lead times, logistic lead times and store profiles and communicate insights to product planning to influence future buying patterns / plans
- Ensure teams are monitoring critical path and supply lead times for replenishment lines

**Qualifications and Experience**:

- A certificate or diploma in Business administration or equivalent or at least 3 years’ experience in a similar role
- Location Planning experience would be advantageous

**Skills**:

- A high degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed, and strategic approach to work
- Computer literacy in Excel, Power Point and Outlook
- Strong business acumen and merchant thinking
- Good organisational and interpersonal skillsProven decision-making ability

**Behaviours**:

- Demonstrates Self-awareness - accurately perceives and reflects on personal strengths and areas of development
- Drives Results - sets ambitious goals and takes focused action to achieve desired outcomes to deliver measurable results
- Ensures Accountability - takes accountability and ensures others are held to account on agreed upon performance targets
- Manages Complexity - interprets and simplifies complex and contradictory information when resolving organisational problems
- Nimble learning - quickly adapts and acquires new knowledge, skills, and competencies in a rapidly changing environment
- Plans and Aligns - develops plans and prioritises initiatives that align to the organisational goals and objectivesSituational Adaptability - effectively adjusts their behaviour, approach, and decision-making based on the situation

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