Technical Skills Required: OTB Planning, Sell Thru, Range Planning
Key Deliverables (Essential functions & Responsibilities of the Job):
- To formulate a detailed plan on the products to be offered each quarter.
- Range presentation to sign off the BU plan with Buying and Merchandising Head
- Booking quantities of products to meet launch and respond to in season variables
- Generating analysis to be able to support buying decisions
- Reacting to sales Information and working with suppliers to revise production flows and maximize sales.
- Agreeing and reviewing targets for sales, margin, stock, commitment and availability.
- Assisting operating plan review and lessons learnt
- Completing catalogue intentions and IRP
- Managing the plans for all markdown periods
- Agreeing the range production plan with the manager and monitoring with suppliers
- Working with the supplier for the prompt input of flows to ensure alignment between production and commitment
- Production plans to manage MSI capacity
- Provide information to retail team to allow them to provide layout plans to stores
- Providing input into price point strategy for ranges
- Maintaining awareness of competition product offer
- Planning, optimizing and reviewing the catalogue by shape of the chain.
- implementing and exploiting new systems and process
Key Requirement:
- Local product development to address local requirements, gaps in the offer and margin opportunity
- Flow and phasing planning
- Product bought to plan
- Product delivered to critical path
- Managing the catalogue plan
- Plan to develop shorter lead time product in season
- Develop value fashion for tier 2 markets
- Work with VM and Marketing deliver and highlight the look.
- Maximize product opportunity in peak selling e.g. gifting in
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