Assistant Planner

Responsibilities

• Responsible for reviewing stock to sales ratios, responding to changing sales trends, and ensuring plan sales, plan markups, and plan markdowns are achieved by brands.
• Ensure achievement of budget and LFL growth for assigned department.
• Managing inventory levels of assigned department at the store.
• Ensure desired first price sell-thru for assigned department for each season.
• Assist planning manager in preparation of buying budget and assortment plan for assigned department.
• Ensure the realized margin target for the department are met.
• Ensure adequate mix of merchandise at the stores as per the set guidelines.
• Ensure all CORE products availability at all times.
• Launching of new products and categories at the stores and ensure timely replenishment.
• Regularly perform inter-store consolidations to maximize sell-thru.
• Coordination and liaising with retail team and buying team.
• Weekly preparation and review of reports with buying and retail team and plan out action plan to rectify concern areas.
• Flag any sort of inventory concern to planning manager and concerned buying department head so that the situation can be handled efficiently.