Sales Planner - Apparel Category/eCommerce

Responsibilities:

- Planning / Intake / OTB management - Monitor inventory situation & plan inwards based on the GMV/DOH/STR plan

- Selection - making season level buy plans / assortment plans, based on past performance & growth / revenue targets to ensure that the category is well represented

- Review style level performance based on metrics such as ROS, Sell thru, RPI, RGM & take corrective actions

- Identify gaps in product offerings & subsequently suggest brands/category expansion

- Managing pricing (SOR / OR) - follow up with category on securing timely control pricing internally as per planned STR/GM/RGM. Working closely on OR discounting based on profitability requirements

- Operational excellence: Should have prior experience or enough knowledge & confidence to manage merchandising operations, inbound planning, cataloguing & discount monitoring.

- Process Improvement - Should have a problem-solving approach for the issues faced in planning process & ideate/implement process improvement projects

Qualifications & Experience

- Degree from NIFT or other reputed institution

- 6+ Years (Graduate) of buying / planning / merchandising planning experience

- Understanding of planning & Inventory management (Understanding of E-comm will help)

- Willingness to learn, innovate, take initiatives

- Strong MS Excel skills & understanding of data analytics (SQL knowledge would be a plus)

- Customer centric, creative & analytical problem-solving mindset

- Ability to work as part of a team & collaborate with others

- Should be good at multitasking & time management

- Good interpersonal & negotiation skills