Merchandising Planner Durban North

National Retailer - Retail / Merchandising Planner

National Retailer invites applications for Retail / Merchandising Planners, based in Durban North.

Duties & Responsibilities

• Partnered with the buyer to achieve a product strategy to gain maximum profitability.
• Manage alongside the buyer your given OTB.
• Analyze your product category sales weekly.
• Create product orders.
• Liaise with suppliers regarding new products and ordering of stock.
• Develop product strategy with the buyer to ensure targets are met.
• Identify new products in the industry and compile a costing for these products taking all cost sectors into account.
• Liaise with the shipping department closely to ensure shipments are received on time and to avoid any delays.
• Liaise with the warehouse departments to ensure that goods are received and there is an efficient flow of goods into and out of the warehouse into our stores in a timely manner.
• Review slow-moving stock and develop sales strategies.
• Extract & analyze financial KPIs & product performance against set plans by sub-department season, category & sub-category.
• Compile a draft report highlighting all issues that have impacted performance.
• Lead a discussion to develop an action plan that will maximize sales.
• Achieve product strategy plans to gain maximum profitability.
• Strategic management of stock within a portfolio while producing accurate figures for analysis.
• Review and analyze the work produced.
• Responsible for controlling the budget and managing the supply chain to timely and correctly deliver stock.
• Responsible for achieving 55% of Division Sales.
• Forecasting of Yearly Sales.
• Forecasting Quarterly of Product buys.
• Analysis of product category past sales as well as current market and customer profile to assist in future buying decisions.
• Build the initial assortment plan.
• Review product orders.
• Liaise with suppliers regarding new products and ordering of stock.
• Develop product strategy with the Buyer to ensure targets are met.
• Identify new products in the industry and compile a costing for those products taking all cost sectors into account.
• Review slow-moving stock and develop sales strategies.
• Liaise with the Area Managers regarding updates of products and solutions to general queries.
• Send out monthly stock cover and store performance reports to the product and operations team.
• Conduct Store Visits to review store performances as well as to ensure that merchandise is being displayed correctly.
• Reporting on new and existing stores to track performance and sales.

Desired Experience & Qualification

Living in Durban.

Own car and driver's license.

Package & Remuneration

Negotiable CTC.

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