Merchandise Planner

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To be the Merchandise Planner, working alongside the buying team, reporting into and working with the Head of Merchandising, and responsible for managing a team of direct reports across merchandising and allocations. Working with the Buyer on the delivery of planning, numerical analysis and interpretation.

Client Details

My client is a large international, fast-paced fashion retailer, a key player on the high street, with a fashionable product offer to men, women and kids. Well-established, they launched over two hundred years ago and now operate with almost 2,000 stores across Europe.

This leading fashion retailer’s head quarters are based in a vibrant, multi-cultural city, easily accessible to much of Europe with numerous travelling options.

Description

The key accountabilities for the Merchandise Planner based in Brussels are to:

• Deliver departmental financial plans based on budgets, forecasted and planned


• Analyse and determine options for stores based on size of store and region in order to deliver the optimum volumes of merchandise per store


• Establish and adjust the profit, turnover, stocks, markdowns by department in order to be able to determine the seasonal/yearly plan figures within the department(s) in the business


• Conduct size level analysis to ensure the correct buy quantities by style, by category, by store, and monitor early results in order to quickly respond to stock sell-thrus


• Alter size forecasts based on promotional periods and events


• Provides all key stakeholders with the necessary figures in order to be able to take key strategic decisions for the department(s)


• Provides Buyers with quantities they have to buy for the different articles per country and by which date in order to contribute to a optimum delivery period


• Manages allocation tools


• Checks timely delivery of merchandise to the stores and checks whether stocks are as planned in order to be able to call-off or stop the delivery of merchandise from the warehouse to the store, or to support potential mark-down decisions


• Analyse mark-down requests at local and regional level, and assess whether mark-downs are viable within the planned value allowances


• Monitor the Open-to-Buy (OTB), parameters and selling prices for optimum team performance

Profile

To be successful in working within this business in the role of Merchandise Planner based in the heart of Belgium, the candidate will need to be an established Merchandiser, working in a volume-led, international or national fashion retail business, with managerial experience of at least one direct report. Experience working across menswear or childrenswear is desirable but not essential.

Job Offer

A competitive base salary, bonus potential, full relocation support and a great career opportunity, plus health care, and pension.