Merchandise Planner

At Pro Cook
, we do more than just cook up beautiful, high-quality kitchenware—we design for life. As we continue to grow, we’re looking for a Merchandise Planner who can bring strategic thinking, commercial savvy, and a passion for performance to our Merchandising team.

As our Merchandise Planner
, you’ll be responsible for defining and delivering the category strategy, delivering agreed stock requirements to all Pro Cook channels and determining promotional and pricing activities to drive sustainable growth through increased sales and profitability.

This is a full-time 37.5hrs/week role, working 3 days in the office and 2 days from home, therefore you MUST live within commutable distance to our offices in Gloucester.

• Working closely with Buying, responsible for accurate category forecasting and demand planning, creating and maintaining appropriate trackers and planners for full visibility of range architecture and performance
• Establish systematic methods and tools to monitor and analyse stock, availability and sales performance trend data to develop forecasts by product category, SKU, channel and location
• Lead and manage the category and promotional critical path and act as an ambassador across all functions for delivering Commercial activity on time and in full at times
• Ownership of maintaining accurate Range Plan, Trading Plan, Markdown Plan and line-level forecasts
• Working with the Buying team & suppliers to confirm stock requirements, production capacity and order management within the critical path
• Provide weekly, seasonal, and ad hoc analysis of range and promotional performance, including to senior stakeholders
• Incorporate company financial reporting and budget requirements into merchandise plans and recommendations
• Develop and communicate quarterly demand planning with suppliers to ensure stock requirements are managed within the critical path
• Establish a promotional and seasonal forecasting model and plan for implementing merchandise changes
• Coordinate product forecasts with Buying and communicate to Supply Chain
• Ensure that clearance products are managed and sold through at an appropriate rate, taking price action as required to achieve stock, sales and margin targets
• Manage open to buy options and stock plans to deliver to sales and stock targets
• Inner/Outer management coordinated with Buying and delivered in volumes suitable for warehouse requirements and retail execution

• Proven experience in retail merchandising environment
• Solid knowledge of range and category management
• Project management skills to facilitate and track cross-functional tasks, spotting potential risks and managing them
• Data driven with good analytical and forecasting skills
• Strong stakeholder management skills in order to work across multiple teams
• Excellent communication and people skills
• Drives the performance and growth of their area
• Provides support for the long-term strategies of the organisation
• Prioritises and balances immediate tasks to deliver objectives and results
  
  Proactively and decisively challenges the norm to drive performance
• Collaborates with other areas to drive the best results
• Has positive presence and impact on their team
• Develops high performing team and direct reports
• Sets clear objectives for themselves and others

• 💰Salary is up to £40,000 depending on experience and skills
• 🤩Total value of our perks is worth £3,000+ per year
• 🅿️ Free parkingon-site
• 💪 Free gym accesson-site
• ☕ Unlimited coffee and teathroughout the day
• 🍰 Free fresh fruit and cakedaily
• 🍴 Subsidised meals- breakfast and lunch
• 🏢 Hybrid Working: 3 days in our inspiring Pro Cook HQ, 2 days flexible remote
• 🏆 Opportunity to work with a passionate team
• 🎁 Generous colleague discount- 40% off to spend in store or online + 30% for friends and family
• 🌍 2 x Annual paid volunteering days
• 📞 Employee Assistance Programme
• 👥 Friends and Family Referral Scheme
• 🏖️33 Days Annual Leave (including bank holidays)
• 💰 Discretionary bonus scheme of up to 15%
• 🅱️ B Corp certified company committed to ethical practices and sustainability
• 🥇 A company recognised as a Great Place to Work for 4 consecutive years
• 🩼 Disability Confident…