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Merchandising and Planning Manager – Fast Growing Premium Fashion Brand

4 months ago

Cape Town, Western Cape, Saudi Arabia Ares Holdings Full time

Roles and responsibilities

Merchandising

  • Understand the business strategy and drive the development of product strategies by channel and range
  • Ensure optimal samples are ordered in accordance with planned merchandising strategies
  • Ensure that the buy-plans are well detailed and clearly understood by all relevant stakeholders
  • Evaluate customer sales through data and trading patterns
  • Manage a consumption tool to react early to effectively plan across channels
  • With the sales and marketing functions, manage the full GTM sales process from planning, co-ordinating and developing sales tools that directly support the sell-in process for both existing and new accounts catalogues, pricelist lists, order forms, delivery dates, showroom prep, catering, trade marketing support
  • Ensure segmentation of the product line to address account needs and to differentiate between WS and PTC channels

Planning

  • Implement the integrated planning process that deals with customer demand, upselling opportunities, EOL and stock management
  • Manage planning tool to establish quantities to be purchased for the season per channel
  • Evaluate all order or cancellation opportunities
  • Ensure purchase orders are placed with company suppliers in line with companies OTB budgets
  • Ensure stock turn objectives and profit targets are met
  • Ensuring that Retail buy-plans are well detailed and clearly understood by team members and relevant stakeholders
  • Management of the Retail range assortments and replenishment
  • Analysis of Retail sell through with necessary systems Excel, Cictech and SAP B1 to optimize seasonal orders and replenishment to stores.
  • Communicating with Stores where necessary to understand trading patterns
  • Monitoring in season trade and react accordingly
  • Ensuring product plan meets location plan targets and correct stock allocations meet sales targets
  • Ensuring sufficient inflows of product to meet acceptable in stock percentages in order to maintaining agreed replenishment service levels
  • Ensure space optimization per store in accordance with sell through information Gender, Silhouette, colour etc.
  • Providing accurate and timeous reporting to ensure the business can react to situations and management has the necessary information to minimise risk and optimise business opportunities.

Supply Chain

  • Meet range development deadlines in order to ensure supplier deadlines are met
  • Ensure accurate requested ship dates to ease cash flow pressures
  • Establish and maintain realistic supply-chain based performance deadlines, lead times etc.
  • Manage the reconciliation of OOR against purchase order identifying irregularities and highlighting this to the Planners
  • Manage the delivery of samples to Head Office as necessary maintaining responsibility for this inventory until signed over to the relevant merchant
  • Split Purchase Orders to reflect shipping inventory and communicate this to all parties
  • Establish shipment plan and identify consolidation opportunities for cost reduction based on OOR reconciliation

Stockholder Management

  • Build relationships with key stakeholders Group Planning Lead etc., customers, supplier and partners

Reporting

  • Develop and continually evaluate all reports in order to monitor stock arrival in SA, sales, history, seasonal sales analysis, aged inventory etc.
  • Provide monthly reports as required by management from time to time.

People Management

  • Ensure role clarity and effective goal-setting
  • Mentor and coach the Planners, Junior Planner and Inventory Controller to ensure to ensure an optimal team strategy is achieved
  • Handle IR issues and performance management and discuss disciplinary requirements with HCM
  • Manage the GOLP process of for all team members
  • Monitor the application of the HR Value Chain and adherence to people-related SOP's

Requirements:

  • Relevant Degree B-Com or related Diploma in Retail Management/Planning/Supply Chain/Merchandise Management
  • 3 - 5 years' experience in a similar role
  • 3 - 5 years' Management experience
  • Knowledge of an ERP system
  • A strong understanding of fashion retail and the market opportunities within the retail, wholesale and e-commerce sector
  • Ability to dissect large/complex data into meaningful and easy to understand reports
  • Budgeting and forecasting
  • Capacity to collaborate, integrate & facilitate teamwork ability to network, build and sustain stakeholder relationships internally as well as with external stakeholders is critical
  • Business and commercial acumen
  • Excellent negotiation and communication skills
  • Highly organized and deadline driven
  • Advanced Report Writing
  • High attention to detail
  • Advanced Excel
  • Own vehicle