Store Planner

As a Store Planner, you will be responsible for planning and distributing seasonal and replenishment stock to maximise sales, supporting store performance analysis, visual merchandising, new store setups, and resolving stock-related queries. Our ideal candidate is self-motivated and passionate about performance and driven by solutions. You'll need to bring your high energy level to keep up with the excitement of our retail environment!

• Ensuring the accurate distribution of seasonal stock to optimise sales.

• Ensuring the optimal distribution of non-seasonal and seasonal replenishment stock to optimise sales.

• Delivering a location plan that allows for the clustering of stores at the required product level.

• Delivering seasonal and non-seasonal replenishment profiles at the required product level.

• Supplying inputs to the Seasonal look for the required visual merchandising.

• Analysing store performance and providing accurate and timeous information in order to optimise business decision making.

• Ensuring new stores are stocked to plan.

• Assisting stores in resolving any queries relating to stock.

A minimum of 2-3 years sound experience in store planning within a clothing retail environment is an important requirement.

The following additional experience would be ideal:

• Previous store management experience

• Previous exposure to general logistics and supply chain processes

• Experience working in planning systems such as Location Planning, JDA Allocation Planning and/or Just Enough

• Experience in planning high replenishment products and good understanding of cross-dock processes

• A working knowledge of the latest Microsoft packages (Word & Excel) is essential.

• Experience in working at an advanced level in Excel would be a definite advantage.

• Grade 12 Certificate/Matric is essential.

• A National Diploma or Degree in Business/Retail Management or Accounting/Finance would be beneficial.