Planner

The candidate will be responsible for the Regional Merchandising Planning processes collaborating with the HQ Merchandising Planning Team and the Regional Retail, Finance & Buying Teams for

forecasting, merchandise financial planning, in-season management, open to buy markdown and core & high rotating Item management.

Main Activities & Responsibilities

• Process and analyse all relevant data, monitoring the main KPI’s concerning the Region
• Run all planning and forecasting activities
• Involvement in “Core items” management
• Manage the planning for Carry Overs
• Run the OTB budgets according to the Company guidelines
• Create monthly sales reforecasts and analyse sales to flag risks and identify growth opportunities
• Running standard reports and building ad hoc analysis in order to share information and analyse the business performance within the Region
• Consolidate weekly/monthly sales/stock analysis
• Regularly work with HQ Merchandising Planning to understand best sellers/slow movers, to anticipate consolidation strategies, allocation/reallocation and replenishment, etc
• Analyse end of season markdowns and support with the markdown Lists
• Ensure support concerning the Order Review activities from a numerical standpoint during the selling campaigns
• Perform other duties as required