Merchandise Planner

**Job purpose**: The job holder will be responsible for merchandise planning process to achieve department /category sales, margin, stockholding, and flow objectives under the guidance of Planning Manager. Responsible for maximizing sales and profitability in the business by providing effective merchandise strategies to achieve the strategic and financial objectives of the concept.
**Minimum Requirement**:
Graduate degree in commerce or business administration/ Post Graduate degree in Business Administration / Diploma in Retail discipline
Minimum 6 years of experience out of which 3 years should be in a similar role and similar industry.
Specialized Training in MS Office
Hands on experience of Pre-season merchandise financial planning & in-season demand planning
Knowledge on MFP, AP & LP
**Key Accountabilities**:
Merchandise Financial, Strategic and Assortment Planning
Maximize Sales and profitability for the department/category
Support in determining high-level financial goals including pre-season financial plans, in-season projections, open-to-buy management and new store budgets
Prepare and maintain department/category merchandise MIS analytics based on actual sales, sales forecasts, company order parameters, inventory checks, forth coming events, replenishment needs etc.
Assist in the creation of merchandise plans for the category based on insights gained from merchandise analytics, customer preference, historical trends and future outlook projected by the buyer
Assist in discussing, deciding and freezing the department/category merchandise strategic plans around financial, store and assortment factors
Communicate the merchandise strategic plan to buying team for necessary execution
Ensure effective in season management across territories (stock balancing, markdown management, stock analysis, stock vs sales performance)
Help review the merchandise plans on a periodic basis to ensure profit is maximized and maintained to reach target levels
Ensure that the standards of Merchandise procedures and Methodologies are maintained and kept Uniform
Inventory Stock Optimization
Ensure optimum category inventory levels are maintained at Concept/Territory keeping in mind store requirements as well as working capital constraints
Ensure that no instances of category stock outs occur on account of any discrepancy on part of merchandise planning
Ensure excess category inventory is not maintained at the warehouses or the stores and there is proper adherence to the concept/territory ageing policy
In season Management
Ensure performance is monitored against plan for the assigned category/department, regularly supported by exception reporting
Ensure effective in season management of the assigned category/department through regular analysis and action planning across concept and territory, based on the performance around Sales vs. Stock, inflows, OTB etc.
Category Promotions
Provide inputs on the expected margins, possible price points and other parameters for promotions within the product category
Help analyze the effectiveness of the promotions in achieving the targeted levels of sales and margins
Help analyze the existing stock levels and liaise with the Buying/VM/Marketing team for timely roll out of promotional campaigns to maintain the territory / warehouse inventory holding norms as well to achieve targeted sales

**Qualifications**:

- **Primary Location**: United Arab Emirates
**Job**: Merchandise Planning
**Organization**: Shoemart Concept
**Schedule label /الجدول الزمني**: Regular
**Shift**: Standard

**Job Type**: Full-time
Day Job
**Job Posting/نشر تسمية الوظيفة**: Sep 3, 2024, 8:43:24 AM