Manager Retail Planning

Responisbilities:

• Accountable for buy spend, OTB/buy level management, divisional inventory control and option count.
• Responsible for transparency, visibility and communication of key data and analysis to the business for effective decision making.
• Responsible for delivering strategy, strategy updates and proposals on key decisions to the business and responsible for gaining agreement with Senior Management.
• Develop seasonal/quarterly strategy, reviewing and identifying lessons
• Create department targets and strategy proposal for Management to review and agree.
• Assortment plan financials to maximize profit, sales, space density and options flow whilst optimizing inventory and managing risk on-trend products. Compare option requirements and mix vs. field requests and VM information, feedback and quantify gaps to business.
• Ensure that in-season and pre-season plans and targets are balanced to match space and supports store budgeted plans (sales, margin, density, and inventory). Accountable for bottom-up and top-down pre- and in-season targets to fulfill budget targets e.g., back best sellers in appropriate depth and manage risk on-trend product.