Merchandise Planner

Be part of our team where we inspire people to live their best life every day
- Our team is supportive, innovative and keen to grow our business
- Generous team member discounts across all Brandbank brands
- Through beautiful Swedish design, we exist to inspire and empower people the world over to live their best life every day. We do this through dreaming, doing, enjoying and sharing._

**DREAM. DO. ENJOY. SHARE**

**Merchandise Manager**

**DREAM.**
Are you dreaming of a career where you love arriving at work each day?

**DO.**
What does the
**Merchandise Planner** DO?

The role of the Merchandise Planner is to maximise profitability efficiently. This involves all aspects from open to buy to the day-to-day planning with a strong focus on supporting retail and eCommerce rapid growth.

The Merchandise Planner will be working closely with relevant leads to align our resources and capabilities to deliver our organisation strategy on product ranges & lifecycle, while communicating & providing recommendations in line with team code

**Some of the incredible things you’ll be doing are**:

- Analysis of historical results and future trends to set WSSI (weekly sales, stock & intake) budgets and achieve company strategic and financial profit targets.
- Accurate forecasting in changing conditions
- Management of merchandise OTB
- Management of product lifecycles to achieve stock turn expectations.
- Produce weekly reporting to support trade decisions and analyse results.
- Drive and deliver promotional strategies & events to achieve sales and stock turn expectations.
- Responsible for setting the merchandise option & range assortment for seasonal collections in line with OTB & budget IM%
- Set, review and manage Core / key line program in line with OTB to optimise growth opportunity and manage stock turn.

**ENJOY.**
How much ENJOY can you squeeze into one role

Delight in your welcome, which includes Swedish design gifts. Love working with a team of motivated, passionate and supportive individuals. Enjoy spending your generous Team Member discount. Oh, and you won’t be working on your birthday, you’ll be feeling the birthday love with your paid day off. You’ll also enjoy great opportunities for learning and career development through coaching and our online learning platform. And we promise, not one year working anniversary, also known as your kikki.K birthday will go by without a celebration

**SHARE.**

**Come and SHARE your unique talent with us**

**Some of what we’re looking for you to SHARE includes**:

- Previous Merchandise Planner Experience (at least 2 years) in a fast-paced retail environment
- Analytical mindset with attention to detail and ability to commercialise data for trade actions.
- Willingness to adapt with change & passionate about efficiency improvements.
- Advanced Excel & retail systems knowledge, Google Analytics, Jedox/Palo or TM1 extraction tool experience advantageous.

**Now you’ve imagined how your dream can become a reality, let us inspire you to chase dreams of your own.**

**ABOUT BRANDBANK GROUP**:
Brandbank was founded on bold creative thinking. We exist to ensure that the entire experience of a brand is brilliantly designed and beautifully connected, and the customer is at the heart of everything we do. Our growing business is built on a house of carefully curated brands, each chosen for a specific reason to deliver rich connections to our customers. Brandbank Group consists of Seed Heritage, French Connection, Allkinds, Commonry, kikki.K & Fine-Day.