Planner, Retail, Stocking

Job title:

Planner

Location:

London, UK Duration: 2 Months (24th Aug - 30th Oct)

Hours:

37.5 hours per week JOB PURPOSE A fantastic opportunity to join our EMEIA planning team based in our HQ. We currently have an opportunity within our Womenswear department for an experienced Planner looking to further their career within our regional planning function. As a planner your aim will be to drive the business through strategic seasonal merchandise planning, controlled inventory management, actionable reporting, and insightful commercial analysis.

By becoming a part of our team you will support in creating a world class, digitally enabled & integrated end-to-end planning & analysis team, which thinks commercially, connects across functions, and delivers efficient merchandise processes. RESPONSIBILITIES Complete critical category analysis to support pre-market/seasonal reviews including regional OTB, product exits, key product deep-dives and option productivity Input to seasonal floorset including recommending volume segmentations for options and working with Merchandising to ensure fashion buy is maintained.

Provide critical input/recommendation to in-season trading for fashion and replenishment. Provide critical input to end of season sales and implement where required, forecasting opening sale inventory based on de-list, proposing sale discounts, uploading sale prices/discounts to central template and managing price/upload communication to store teams. Complete critical category analysis and re-forecast on a weekly basis including replenishment, trade analysis, regional OTB, in-stock analysis and aged inventory for all channels.

Work effectively as a member of a cross- functional department team (Merchandising, Planning, & Allocation) by focusing on team objectives and communicating clearly PERSONAL PROFILE Experience as Planner Strong Planning and Forecasting Skills Decision making capability clearly driven by developing strategic product and business initiatives High level of proficiency in Excel, Word and PowerPoint SAP/BRRS skills preferred PLM Software skills preferred Guidant, Carbon
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