Merchandise Planner

Responsibilities

Planning (Seasonally)

Prepare a Post Seasonal Analysis of past performance at Concept/Terittory and Department levels down to Class/Sub-Class and Item levels.

Discuss and prepare a SWOT analysis of the above and document action plans in preperation for the Strategic Planning Process

Propose Seasonal Strategies on Sales , Pricepoint , Supplier, Brands,Size,Colour and Assortment Dimensions (Where applicable) at Concept/Territory levels down to Class/Sub-Class levels together with the Buyers taking into account past performance and future trends ..

Presentation of the Departmental Strategies to the Management for approval

Prepare and Propose Seasonal Budgets at Concept/Territory levels down to Class/Sub-Class levels based on the approved Strategy to match the Financial targets set for Sales , Opening /Closing Stocks , Inflows , Forward covers and Sales Margins.

Prepare and Propose Merchandise Financial Plans For Sales , Opening and Closing stocks with Forward covers and Planned Inflows for by month and Season with agreed Inflow and Sales Margin Percentages at Dept/Class/Subclass levels( where Applicable).

Prepare Store Grading at Class/SubClass levels to determine the Width and Depth of Ranges for Large , Medium and Small stores with Order quantiies ( where aplicable) .

Prepare a Theoretical Range Plan and present to the Planning Manager for approval.

Share the above with the Buyers and together finalise into a Buy Plan (Range Plan) by month at Class/Subclass levels to match the Strategy Plans for (Quantities,Options,Prices and Suppliers) and Finacial paremeters (OTB/Inflows) set by Month.