Merchandise Planner

Competitive remuneration package & flexible working arrangement
- Join a family owned business who puts their employees first | Fulltime permanent
- Demonstrate your capacity to drive impactful change within our organisation.

**The Opportunity**
As a Merchandise Planner with e&s, you'll be at the forefront of strategic decision-making, collaborating with key stakeholders to establish monthly sales forecasts for top-selling SKUs and ensuring alignment with promotional activations and business objectives. You will drive efficiency in inventory management processes by managing and developing forecasting procedures, while also supporting the growth of purchasing team members to enhance routine admin tasks, fostering a culture of continuous improvement.

**A Merchandise Planner, with us, involves**:

- Collaborate with Category, Planning, and Head of Merchandise to establish monthly sales forecasts for key selling SKUs.
- Ensure category teams provide details on promotional activations for accurate forecasting.
- Coordinate with product planning to ensure inventory orders align with business forecasts.
- Develop and manage inventory forecasting processes for the business, driving efficiency and accuracy.
- Support the development of purchasing team members to enhance efficiency in routine admin tasks.
- Assist the Head of Merchandise in creating and managing reports or budgets as required.
- Collaborate with Category, Marketing, Planning, Purchasing, and Retail teams to review and improve inventory-related processes between departments.
- Manage forecasts in line with budgets and expectations set by the CFO.

**Here’s what we’re looking for**:

- Proven experience in merchandise planning, buying, inventory management, or a related role within the retail industry (retail industry preferable not essential)
- Strong analytical skills with proficiency in data analysis and forecasting techniques.
- Excellent communication and collaboration abilities.
- Experience working with suppliers to manage forecasting and inventory processes.
- Proven track record of driving process improvement initiatives.
- Ability to manage multiple priorities and meet deadlines in a fast-paced environment.

**What we Offer**
- Flexible working arrangements
- Working with market leading brands and globally recognised supplier brands
- Access to Wellbeing programs and support through our Employee Assistance Program
- Generous employee discounts
- If you love coffee, you will love working in our Noble Park Support Centre
- 5 weeks annual leave on your 5 years of service
- Invitations to supplier events and galas.
- To be well trained and developed so that you are equipped to excel in this vital role.
- We love to see our people grow with career opportunities and prefer to promote from within the organisation.

**About Us**
For 61 years, e&s has been serving our customer’s needs as a specialist retailer in the Victorian market.

Since 1991, the Sinclair family made the decision to focus solely on the best brands in Kitchen, Bathroom

and Laundry products.

e&s has established a reputation in Victoria as a retailer of integrity and principle, doing everything possible

to ensure that we are customer-centric in everything we do, whether that be through omni-channel or

behind the scenes in our retail and commercial operations.

Our success has been built on the back of powerful relationships between our suppliers, customers and our

dynamic group of employees who foster these relationships by being genuine, authentic and trustworthy.

At E&S, we place as much importance as the customer experience as we do on the employee experience.

There are many opportunities within e&s to grow a long-term career in an environment that many call their

second home.