Merchandising & Planning

Overview The Merchandising & Planning position is responsible for developing, managing, and optimizing merchandise plans to achieve sales targets, maximize profitability, and ensure healthy inventory levels. This role plays a critical part in aligning sales performance, production planning, and inventory execution across stores, warehouses, and factories.

• Merchandise & Sales Planning:
  Analyze historical sales data and trends to forecast future product demand and identify risks and opportunities; develop comprehensive merchandise plans on a weekly, monthly, half‑yearly, and yearly basis; prepare and manage sales targets aligned with overall store sales objectives, initial allocation plans, and inventory plans including store‑level quantity distribution.
• Inventory & Store
  
  Collaboration:
  
  Collaborate with in‑store merchandising teams to ensure effective product display and store layout execution; plan and execute promotion, marketing, price actions, and inter‑branch transfers, particularly for slow‑moving items; create efficient and practical assortment boxes for stores, warehouses, and factories in accordance with production guidelines.
• Performance Monitoring & Business Control:
  Monitor sales performance, gross profit, and inventory conditions on an ongoing basis; make timely business decisions and corrective actions based on sales trends and market conditions.
• Cross‑Functional Coordination:
  Coordinate closely with production, factory, and logistics teams to ensure timely product delivery (targeting receipt 1–2 weeks before launch dates); continuously review and adjust production quantities and delivery schedules based on sales performance and demand trends.

• Bachelor’s degree in mathematics, Statistics, Finance, Business Studies, Geography, or related fields.
• Minimum 3 years of experience in the retail industry, preferably at a supervisory level.

• Strong analytical skills with a passion for data analysis, trend identification, and risk/opportunity assessment; comfortable working with basic statistics and large datasets.
• Excellent communication and presentation skills, with the ability to work confidently across teams, including senior management, factories, and store operations.
• Resilience under pressure, with the ability to remain calm and make sound decisions in fast‑changing, deadline‑driven environments.
• Quick thinking and decision‑making ability to respond effectively to shifting business conditions.
• High computer literacy, with the ability to work with internal systems for data analysis, reporting, and performance tracking.
• Strong commercial awareness, including understanding market trends, customer behavior, competitor activity, and broader economic conditions.