Bombay Dyeing - AGM/DGM - Category & Merchandising - Bed Linen

Job Description

1. Merchandise Financial, Strategic and Assortment Planning

- Maximise Sales and profitability for the Concept.

- Detailed assortment planning (Range width Plan)

- Determine high-level financial goals including pre-season financial plans, in-season projections, open-to-buy management and new store budgets

- Prepare and monitor Concept merchandise MIS analytics based on actual sales, sales forecasts, company order parameters, inventory checks, forth coming events, replenishment needs etc

- Ensure creation of merchandise plans for all department/category based on insights gained from merchandise analytics, customer preference, historical trends and future outlook projected by the Channels

- Discuss, decide and freeze the concept merchandise strategic plans around the following factors - Financials, Store, Assortment

- Communicate the merchandise strategic plan to Sourcing team for necessary execution

- Ensure effective in season management across territories (stock balancing, markdown management,stock analysis, stock vs sales performance)

- 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

- Keep abreast of the latest trends in Merchandise Planning and discuss the same with the Sourcing & PD-Manager from time to time to assess alignment / realignment of existing processes

2. Inventory Stock Optimization

3.Category Promotions

- Provide inputs on the expected margins, possible price points and other parameters for promotions within the product category

- Analyse the effectiveness of the promotions in achieving the targeted levels of sales and margins

- Analyse the existing stock levels and liaise with the Marketing/VM/Buying team for timely roll out of promotional campaigns to maintain the territory / warehouse inventory holding norms as well to achieve targeted sales

Inseason Management

- Ensure effective inseason management through regular analysis and action planning across concept and territory based on the performance around the following anchors

- Sales vs Stock

- Inflows/OTB

- Stock analysis

- Stock balancing

- Margin analysis

- Communicate and facilitate action to be taken on out of line situations with Channel Heads/Territory/State Managers

- Visit territories and stores to be abreast with product performance and trends

- Monitor, Manage and Improvise Planning MIS

- Ensure adequate merchandise performance

4. People Management

Looking for candidates from Home textile/ Home furnishing/ Apparels background.