Location Planner

1 week ago

Cape Town, South Africa Absolute Pets Full time

**Overview**

Absolute Pets is the leading pet care retailer in South Africa with over 160 stores nationwide. The Company caters to a high-end customer with premium products for pets ranging from pet food to health & wellness products and accessories. Absolute Pets is looking for a Location Planner to join their team. The successful will work within the planning team to ensure stock is efficiently allocated to our stores.

**Key Responsibilities**
- Utilize Qliksense, Netstock and Quant systems as well as customer and store feedback to evaluate and set optimal inventory stock levels and planning parameters based on historical demand variations/forecast and desired service levels.
- Set up appropriate system parameters, profiles, safety stocks, display minimums to achieve store/item in stock goals and objectives
- Partner with the buyers and demand planner to actively manage inventory levels by increasing and decreasing inventory,
- Work with buying team and stores to analyze business by door to maximize sales and stock opportunities
- Analyze historic performance and planned strategies to identify areas of opportunity or risk.
- Demonstrate detailed understanding of product sales behaviors such as seasonality, trend, price and promotional activity.
- Ensure the effective utilization of forecasting methods and software tools to deliver and monitor forecast accuracy.
- Assist in planning strategies for discontinued and redundant stock.
- Monitor and assess effectiveness of process and drive continuous improvement.
- Ensure timely reporting to ensure management remain up-to-date on category performance.
- Identify relevant market-related data and competitive intelligence.
- Analyse sales and profits by square metre and by category
- Develop and execute macro space plans by store
- Execute new store and store revamp macro space plans
- Analyze customer and store feedback and sales data to enhance in-store customer experience, adjusting product placements based on customer flow analyses, enhancing in-store navigation and layout
- Track and analyses promotion post mortems and provide recommendations to improve processes for the next activity.
- Be main point of contact in the planning team for the designated stores
- Manage sales and inventory plans at sub-department by store to optimize revenue and turnover
- Conduct a thorough weekly review of business with the merchant and distribution teams in order to monitor and react to business needs

**Requirements**:

- Grade 12/Matric with Mathematics
- Tertiary Qualification in Retail Management, Business, Finance, Logistics, Supply Chain, Mathematics, Statistics or similar field
- Advantageous
- Minimum 2 years' experience in Planning
- Computer literate in MS Word, MS Outlook, PowerPoint
- Intermediate to Advanced Excel Skills (complex formulae, pivot tables, modelling)
- Highly motivated, energetic, self-starter who has the ability to be proactive
- A high degree of numeracy and a detailed and accurate approach to work
- Able to effectively time manage

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