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Merchandise Planning (Multiple Vacancies) Jobs in Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand at The Warehouse Group
Title: Merchandise Planning (Multiple Vacancies)
Company: The Warehouse Group
Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Company DescriptionWe are evolving our product and customer offering by bringing the excitement of a bargain to our customers! As a result, our merchandise planning team is in growth mode with multiple new roles up for grabs. Our merchandise planning team is integral to the Group’s success,offering a blend of financial acumen and analytical rigor with a passion for merchandise innovation.You will be joining a well-established and highly regarded merchandise planning team, and working in a competitive retail market.Keen to join us as we amplify our collective efforts, capability, and impact in merchandise planning?We have a number of new vacancies and opportunity for Merchandise Planners to join our passionate team! These roles are centred in managing key category partnerships to shape our product strategy and lineup – with the unique opportunity to connect with our customers, bring the excitement and deliver great products at even greater value to truly embody what our customers know and love!
Job DescriptionAs a Merchandise Planner, you will play a pivotal role in optimising our product assortment and inventory management strategies, delivering to our customers the best value range while maximising our return on investment. This will be across our different categories including apparel, homeware, grocery, toys, stationery and technology. Leverage your expertise in merchandise planning to drive data-driven decisions and maximise profitability. This position offers an exciting opportunity to blend analytical rigor with a passion for innovation in a fast-paced retail environment.
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 stakeholders
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. Our chapter members have the opportunity to practise their craft in different categories so being nimble to change to meet business needs is essential! Innate curiosity for ‘how we can do better’ will suit the fast-paced demands of the retail environment.
We are looking for someone ideally with:
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
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