Merchandise Planner: Furniture

7 days ago


Southern Suburbs, South Africa Homechoice Full time

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.

You must have previous merchandise planning experience and be a visionary who enjoys collaborating with people and sharing insights to create positive impacts that will drive customer demand and experience.

We are looking for an experienced and driven Merchandise Planner who is digitally orientated, an agile thinker who is passionate, energetic, and optimistic. Are you curious with a love for learning and a willingness to try something new? We need a team player who will collaborate with the planning team to deliver on products that are in line with category strategies and compliant and cost-effective.

**Here’s what you can expect to be doing in the role**:
Margin Management:

- Plan price architecture for buyers' assortments and track to plan accurate weekly forecasts to manage offers and clearance in line with targets.

Achieve targeted sales plan:

- Set quarterly newness targets. Brief a balanced range plan to buy based on key assortment factors and range rationalization targets.
- Weekly reprojections to the trade area.
- On-time deliveries to support promo flow.

Stock efficiency:

- Work stocks to achieve targeted WOS.
- Achieve stock availability, sell-through, and stock health targets.

Digitally focused:

- Ensure all profit is briefed for online and all briefed product is online.
- Frequent website checks
- Monthly digital competitive shop.
- Build digital/tech knowledge incl. Google analytics

Improve customer experience:

- Ease of shopping: Curated range of quality products.
- Ensure we are innovative in product and approach.
- Solution-focused: Satisfy a customer's need.
- Make her life easier: Deliver competitive advantage - What differentiates us?

People and culture:

- Build entrepreneur spirit: Energy passion, optimism.
- Build courage and risk-taking.
- Build a culture of accountability and courage to fail fast.
- Cange & Innovation - reward and recognize.
- Focus on digital & tech, self-upskilling, and include a shift to agile.
- Career progression through exposure to projects/other departments

**A little about who you are**
- Tertiary qualification/degree in a relevant field
- Minimum of 3 years Merchandise Planning experience
- Experience in planning for Furniture or Cookware - Advantageous
- Strong trader instinct
- 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.


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