Job Summary
| Position Title | Associate Planner |
|---|---|
| Hiring Organization | Al Tayer Group |
| Base Salary | AED |
| Job Schedule | Full Time |
| Required Degree | Bachelor's Degree in Business, Finance or Supply Chain |
| Required Skills | Ability To Decipher Highly Complex Reports, MS Office And Financial Analysis And Planning Tools, Retail Business |
| Joining | Immediately |
| Nationality | Any |
| Languages | English |
Position Details
- We have an exciting new sports lifestyle brand that will be exclusively joining our portfolio in the region this year. The Associate Planner is directly responsible for using a data-driven approach and collaborating with buying partners to maximize return on investment via OTB ownership. Focus on driving profitable sales and margin through development of seasonal and yearly product sales plans, including financial planning, budgeting,
- forecasting driven through a focus on consumer demand, in order to maximize sales and gross margin opportunity across an initial brand/category ownership.
Responsibilities
- Partner with Inventory Planning, Buying, Finance, Commercial, and Digital business to develop the merchandise and OTB strategy, using data-driven input from sales trends, customer analytics, market conditions and supplier demands to drive profitable business decision making.
- Build and present the merchandise strategy and OTB for all brands and product groups as assigned including retail, distribution and digital channels, with forecast accuracy being of critical importance.
- Demonstrate sound OTB and financial planning to optimize in season inventory management as well as seasonal flow.
- Align with buying and execute the strategic direction for all aspects of product pricing including Sale/Promotions/Full Price/Indexing impacts in order to drive profitable sales and value to the customer.
- Ensure the Merchandise Planning team partners with the Inventory Planning Team in order to drive Sell Through and maximize yield management.
- Assess merchandise management policies, procedures and systems in line with relevant governance controls and oversight principles
- Develop management skills to lead the merchandise planning teams.
- Responsible for Forecast accuracy across all key OTB metrics.
- Develop monthly OTB Inventory flow and purchase plans from Inventory planning and present further actions required.
- Deliver quality merchandise and assortment plans taking into account key KPI s, trend, customer behavior, and omni-channel landscape and brand strategies.
- Drive accurate buy planning and projections through regular sales monitoring and identification of merchandise turnover risks along with Inventory Team.
- Analyze Reporting and suggested action plans of all the key metrics, to review performance over key periods of Full Price, Markdown and Key Events in order to provide insightful actions required to deliver profitable sales.
- Support the Senior Planner/DPM (Merchandising) on Portfolio Summaries and business analytics.
Requirements
- A bachelor s degree preferably in a relevant field such as Business, Finance or Supply Chain is a requirement.
- Minimum of 5+ years merchandise planning experience within a multi-channel retail organization.
- Highly numerical, analytical and data driven with an ability to decipher highly complex reports and quantitative figures.
- Strong financial modeling & analysis skills.
- Advanced knowledge of excel and MS office and financial analysis and planning tools.
- Commercially minded problem-solver with proven track-record of delivering financial targets.
- Ability to build and maintain productive cross-functional relationships to deliver business results.
- Ability to negotiate and influence effectively.
- Strong stakeholder management, communication and presentation skills.
- Knowledge of retail business.
- Product and market knowledge relevant to the area of responsibility.
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