Sales and Profit Optimisation Specialist

Bring in your Merchandise Planning experience and develop a new planning culture. This role is focused on sales and profit optimisation, leveraging analytical expertise to drive monthly forecasts, share trends, insights & reports, work on assortment planning as well as Trade Planning.

About the Role:

We are expanding our retail planning scope and looking for an experienced Merchandise Planner to join our Foodary Retail Convenience Merchandise team. As a key partner to the Planning & Analytics Manager, you will collaborate cross-functionally with trade, marketing, operations, and supply chain teams to ensure a cohesive approach to timely trade planning execution.

Key Responsibilities:

1. Be the financial and analytical expert through knowledge of current and future trends in the business/industry and create innovative and efficient solutions to business opportunities and risks.
2. Develop models and forecasts to support accurate financial planning and to optimise sales, profit, and inventory.
3. Analyse past sales data, trends, and market conditions to make recommendations on product assortment, inventory levels, and pricing.
4. Collaborate cross-functionally with trade, marketing, operations, and supply chain teams to ensure a cohesive approach to timely trade planning execution.
5. Allocate promotional and investment buys based on trends and store sets.
6. Lead and maintain development of merchandise reporting dashboards.
7. Additional reports, ad hoc projects, and responsibilities as required to support the Merchandising department.

About You:

You will be a highly motivated individual and a catalyst for change, driving forces behind making the Foodary product visions available to consumers through calculated and strategic measures. Your involvement in sales and margin forecasts, promotional performance analysis, and inventory management will play a critical role in helping us become the number one retail convenience choice for our customers.

Requirements:

• Strong understanding of retail mathematics, forecasting, pricing architecture, range planning, and inventory management.
• Advanced knowledge of Microsoft Excel is essential, with prior exposure to data analysis and ability to translate data into opportunities for growth.
• Ability to develop reports in Power BI or willing to learn developing Power BI reports.
• Good leadership skills and able to work with/lead in cross-functional teams.
• Lead the development of comprehensive reports to monitor and assess the success of existing pricing strategies.
• Proven record of developing and delivering structured continuous improvement plans.
• Demonstrate logical analytical abilities, creative problem-solving skills, and financially sound judgment to deliver conclusions and recommendations to all levels of the organisation.
• Ability to work in a fast-paced and complex business environment.
• Demonstrates personal accountability by keeping commitments. Stretches self to achieve increasingly higher levels of performance.
• Open, honest, and models behaviours that foster an inclusive, supportive, cooperative, and trustful working environment.
• Excellent verbal and written communication skills.
• Undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Commerce or equivalent technical degrees not essential but will be highly regarded.

Benefits:

• Total remuneration is competitive, including base salary, a performance incentive, employee share offers, and a 25% discount on fuel for two privately used cars.
• We are flexible, many of our teams have embraced hybrid work, balancing time spent remote working, with time spent at an office to connect and work together where it works best for everyone.