About the Role

You will play a pivotal support role to the Planning team in maximising sales through effective planning, quantification, analysis, and proactive management of financials. This will include forecasting projections for ongoing ranges, achieving ongoing in stock targets and calculating size curves by product hierarchy. This role seeks to provide the Planning Team with insightful reporting & analysis to improve productivity at all levels.

Planning across a growing category means you need to be a robust and confident stakeholder manager who can network, engage with and foster relationships across the business. You are highly numerate and analytical and love to trade your business efficiently and effectively. Your manager will provide you with high levels of guidance and development opportunities that will allow you to hone your planning and analysis skills and build on your existing planning foundations.

Key Responsibilities Analysis of department, class, sub-class and product performance to identify trends, and what action needs to be taken Management of stock holdings to minimise inefficient stock

Develop exit strategies for slow moving lines

Ensure store and online performance is maximised through accurate stock levels and regular stock deliveries Raising and managing seasonal retail orders

Post-seasonal review and performance analysis Achieve business objectives through analysis, reporting & measurement of sales, margin and inventory Run key Monday reports,



analysing the data to give suggestions to the planning team. Collate promotion and markdown lists, communicate with wider team the plans and upload pricing to AP21 system. Review key essential and program styles regularly to ensure we achieve our in-stock targets.

Stock management using Allocation tool to select appropriate stores and weeks cover in line with department plans and business strategy

Liaising with key external and internal stakeholders to ensure all allocation deadlines are met

Maintain delivery schedules to drive intake and allocation decisions

Management of Core and Seasonal stock allocations

Work with Planner to produce appropriate sizing ratios for seasonal use

Manage targeted store stocks (models) of all products

Run replenishment twice weekly

Issue Consolidation Reports on styles when necessary Item registration and Purchase Order management Knowledge &

Experience A minimum of one to two years in either role to be considered. Tertiary qualifications in business / marketing / retail

Specific experience in a high SKU department is highly desirable

Data driven with a high attention to detail

Analytical capability - this role requires you to be able to support the Planner and adjacent teams with reporting and detailed analysis

Excel is your friend best friend! You must be comfortable navigating Excel and using it to manipulate data

You are passionate about our brand and products: Retail is what you love and where you want to be

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