Senior Merchandiser Planner - Retail

Job Description

Branch Merchandising Manager

Objective - 

- The job holder will be responsible for maximising sales and profitability in the business by potentialising trading of all stores across regions and territories.

- Maximising profit and sales densities.

- Managing a team of Branch Merchandisers to tailor assortments to local trading conditions and coordinating new launches.

- Managing the effective communication with stores, product planning buying and the distribution centres

Key Responsibilities - 

- Work closely with product Planning Managers to ensure that the central strategy is fully implemented in stores

- Manage the location planning and re-forecasting process to ensure that all locations have accurate and up to date forecasts

- Management of a team of Branch Merchandisers

- Potentialis esales and profit opportunities in stores on your region /territory

- Liaise with Buying, Planning, Retail, Retail Finance, and Area Visual Merchandisers

- Present weekly overview of Store Performance, identifying 'fashion" priorities and proposed activity to address any concerns or opportunities

- Spotting trends to feeding back to Planning, Buying and Territories

- Managing store grading and clustering

- Manage the store profiling and bias para meters and align with Planning and Buying

- Broker space allocation within the concept to facilitate Concept product strategy

- Manage the overall Concept space planning to ensure the store option counts are accurate and tailored to space

- Manage the overall Concept allocations and replenishment

- Manage the product input to optimise flow through DC

- Liaison with territories to identify local opportunities

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

- Working closely with Territory

- Managers to build up profiles of stores to help tailor stock packages to meet local customers

- Managing branch openings, closures, & space changes

- Attending area meetings and Range Reviews, providing feedback

- Ensure effective in

- Season 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

- Promotional activity

- Maximising full price sell through

- Minimising store terminal stock

- Manage "sale" sell through including creation and management of - sale- grading Manage and facilitate action to be taken on out of stock situation