Assistant Planner

1 week ago

Alexandria, Australia Brand Collective Full time
Generous discounts for you and your family across Brand Collective's portfolio

  • Alexandria Location
  • Join a leading children's health care retailer

About Brand Collective:

At Brand Collective, we bring brands to life This is something we continue to strive towards with our iconic stable of brands including Shoes & Sox, Reebok, Superdry, Review, Clarks, Hush Puppies, Shoes Warehouse, Volley, Julius Marlow, Mossimo, Elka Collective, Black Pepper and many more

About Shoes & Sox:

Shoes & Sox is the leading children's health care retailer. It's what we do together that makes us special. We are a family - supporting you through every step of life's journey.

A career adventure with Shoes & Sox is the opportunity to be empowered to bring your best self to work each day.

As part of the iconic Brand Collective network, we create career and customer experiences that enrich the lives of children throughout our 80+ stores in Australia and beyond.


The opportunity:

We are on the lookout for an

Assistant Planner to join our dynamic Shoes & Sox team Reporting directly to

Planning Manager, the Assistant Planner is responsible for planning and forecasting all stock requirements ensuring the successful procurement and allocation of stock that results in balanced assortments and stock-levels in stores to achieve / exceed sales budgets, gross profit and manage stock levels.

Key duties and responsibilities:

  • Analyse and interpret data, advanced use of Excel.
  • Ensure an elevated level of attention to detail is provided in all tasks to ensure accuracy is attained and ensuring all tasks are completed.
  • Assist the planner in all planning tasks, data extraction and interpretation on a weekly, monthly and seasonal basis.
  • To provide assistance in preparing Trade Reports, daily Intake reports, Warehouse monitoring, New store plans, range plans, building core forecast sheets.
  • Where necessary, assist the planning team in finalizing and implementing agreed store, grading and merchandise allocation plans (ensuring that knowledge of allocations and replenishment maintenance is kept up to date, so it can be executed on an ad hoc basis)
  • To be able to assist the planner in assessing of stock requirements based on product/size/store performance and communicate stock levels to buyer in support of accurate forecasts and order placement on suppliers.
  • To assist the planner in managing and assessing range effectiveness in stores (stock productivity) and in preparing feedback.
  • To assist the planner with inseason & postseasonal analysis with quality analysis on sales trends, profitability, product life cycle, pricing, sizing, product attributes, being able to use this information in compiling product and assortment plans inclusive of brand, cat, options, quantities and any other attribute required to ensure a balanced assortment is planned upfront.
  • Ensure monthly store visits are conducted to gain insight into customer, results of plans and allocations and identifying opportunities.
  • Builds and maintains relationships with all business partners like our Suppliers, Stores, IT, DC, Marketing, Ecommerce.
  • Manage own personal development and growth through being involved in the department and being aware of strengths and challenges to ensure that appropriate support is sought in striving to improve performance

The skills and experience you offer us:

  • Industry and business understanding
  • Financial analysis & interpretation
  • Commercial analysis and interpretation
  • Strong Communication/interpersonal skills
  • Analytical and problemsolving skills
  • Attention to detail and Decisionmaking skills
  • Strong Planning, organising and leadership skills
  • Negotiation Skills
  • Advanced Excel skills

The perks we offer you:

Some of our awesome benefits include:

  • A great culture fuelled by our passionate and diverse team
  • Pet friendly workspace yes, you can bring your dog to work
  • Generous discounts for you and your family across Brand Collective's entire stable of brands
  • Invitations to epic sample sales
  • Paid parental leave for primary and secondary caregivers (based on eligibility), volunteer leave and blood donation leave
  • Purchased Leave program (ability to purchase an additional two weeks of leave per year, based on eligibility)
  • Novated Leasing
  • Floating Holidays provides team members with the option to work on certain state based public holidays and take a different day off in lieu
  • Reward and recognition program as well as generous service awards
  • Recruitment referral incentives for permanent positions
  • Exclusive benefits platform access to generous savings from leading retailers like Woolworths, Amazon and Myer
  • Learning and development we want you to grow and get the most out of your role


 BC Wellness Hub
  • Monthly wellbeing webinars, individual coaching and an Employee Assistance Program with free access to Mental Health Professionals for when times are tough
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