Planner

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 decision making.
• Build and present the merchandise strategy and OTB for all brands and product groups including retail, distribution and digital, with forecast accuracy being of critical importance.
• Collaborate with Inventory Planning on the execution of the merchandise planning strategy through sound financial planning, OTB budgeting, forecasting, inventory allocation and procurement to optimize in-season inventory management for the area of responsibility throughout the planning period to drive profitable sales.
• 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.
• Deliver merchandise management policies, procedures and systems in line with relevant governance controls and oversight principles.
Functional Leadership
• Demonstrate management capability to lead the merchandise planning teams.
• Responsible for Forecast accuracy across all key OTB metrics.
• Deliver merchandise-planning teams to build quality merchandise assortment plans taking into account key KPI’s, trend, customer behaviour, 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.
• Develop monthly OTB Inventory flow and purchase plans from Inventory planning and present further actions required.
• Create 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.