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Merchandise Planner – Underwear and Socks Jobs in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand at The Warehouse Group
Title: Merchandise Planner – Underwear and Socks
Company: The Warehouse Group
Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Company DescriptionAre you ready to stitch together style, strategy, and sales? We are seeking a dynamicMerchandise Plannerto join our thriving Underwear and Socks division. This is your chance to work at the intersection of fashion and function, ensuring that our customers enjoy the perfect blend of comfort and quality while driving commercial success.
The Warehouse Group (TWG) has become a Kiwi household name, and we proudly recognise the role that we play in communities throughout New Zealand. We are the largest general merchandise retailer in NZ across The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery & Noel Leeming. We are at an exciting point in our journey where our focus is on becoming brand-centric, aiming to deliver an unparalleled experience for our customers. Agility and collaboration are cornerstones of our work culture, empowering us to adapt swiftly and work seamlessly together. By being brand-led and retail-focused, we are intentional about placing the right people in the right roles, allowing us to perform work that truly makes a difference.
Job DescriptionWe are looking for an experienced and detail-orientedMerchandise Plannerto join our Underwear and Socks division. In this role, you will play a pivotal part in aligning merchandise plans with business objectives, ensuring optimal stock levels, and driving category performance.
With strong financial acumen, assortment building skills and a real commercial mindset, you’ll work collaboratively to drive optimisation and manage the product lifecycle process, whilst being consistently on top of trends and performance.
Key responsibilities include:
Working with the Buyers on a range of assortment plans, controlling markdowns and category spend
Setting budgets and reviewing forward plans
Analysing product performance trends and making recommendations for improvement
Improving stock-flow & product lifecycle management maximising our Stock ROI
Demand planning/forecasting – includes impacts of promotional activity
Interpreting data into a clear narrative & actionable outcomes – story telling
Communicating data and strategy to key stakeholder
Qualifications
You understand retail and merchandise planning; you always have customers front of mind and can interpret data into stories, translate customer mission strategies into actionable decisions that deliver results. All things that describe you – collaborative, excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, strong influencer.
To be considered for this role you must meet the following minimum requirements:
Retail and merchandise planning experience
Balanced commercial acumen with numerical and analytical skills to translate data into commercial decisions
Decisiveness in our dynamic, fast-moving environment
Additional Information
We offer a dynamic, flexible and supportive team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals.
We also offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career which include flexible working arrangements, team member discounts, wellbeing support, leave benefits and more!
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