Assistant Manager - Retail Planning - Apparel

Assistant Manager | Retail Planning | Luxury Apparel

- The role involves end-to-end merchandise management, inventory planning, and supply chain coordination to support front-end retail operations and ensure profitability.

- Responsibilities include preparing annual stock and sales plans, monitoring product movement, managing aged inventory, and optimizing merchandise mix at store level. The role also focuses on analyzing sales trends, minimizing markdowns, and achieving sales targets by taking corrective actions based on performance data.

- Involvement in Open-to-Buy (OTB) planning, store layout design using planograms, and ensuring high sell-through across product lifecycles is key.

- The candidate will work closely with cross-functional teams such as retail operations, supply chain, marketing, visual merchandising, design, IT, and regional managers.

- Regular interactions will focus on enhancing store performance, implementing seasonal strategies, managing product flow, and improving inventory turnover. Strong analytical skills, attention to detail, and the ability to manage multiple internal relationships are essential to succeed in this role.