Merchandise Planner

At STRAND, our mission is to create the world’s most loved destination for the perfect bag. We are on a journey to continuously grow our brand and to celebrate life’s journeys and adventures, big and small.STRAND has been a leading retailer of luggage, handbags and backpacks since 1927. With almost 300 stores across Australia and New Zealand, a growing online business and an amazing range of leading brand and own-brand bags, we have the best selection, experience and expertise to suit everyone’s needs.We are continuing to grow as a brand with lots of exciting expansion projects on the horizon

**Key responsibilities of this role will include**:

- Analysing historical information, developing seasonal category plans, identifying market opportunities to drive growth and determine product sales mix, stocks levels, retail prices and margins.
- Preparing and maintaining store grading plans across all distribution channels based on display capacity, customer demographic and historical or current trend sales data.
- Managing the Open-to-Buy process for the designated product category.
- Monitoring in-season trading performance data, proposing price markdowns/discounts or additional promotional and marketing activity to maximize retained margins.
- Determining the allocation of new product lines, driving replenishment by predicting future rates of sale and identifying new store opening packages based on sales expectation, store profile and market demographic.
- Managing the set-up and execution of all promotional events/marketing campaigns against key critical path deadlines to ensure launch dates are met.

**About you**:

- Merchandise Planning experience in a fashion apparel or accessories retailer
- Strong retail and commercial acumen
- Strong analytical and numerical skills with high attention to detail
- Proven experience achieving sales, profit and margin goals
- Good understanding of trends within the industry
- Customer-centric focus
- Initiative to recognise and identify potential problems early and implement solutions
- Ability to build relationships and partner with stakeholders at all levels, with strong communication skills, both written and verbal
- Deadline driven and results focused
- Advanced level Excel skills

**Our Values**:
At STRAND, we are customer obsessed, we put people first and we are always improving. We value ownership and trust, and we always deliver results.

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Merchandise Planner, Pyrmont, New South Wales, Australia

Schedule:

- 8 hour shift

Ability to commute/relocate:

- Pyrmont, NSW 2009: Reliably commute or planning to relocate before starting work (required)

Work Authorisation:

- Australia (preferred)