Merchandise Planner

7 days ago

Melbourne, Australia People Equity Full time

Multi-branded Group - Homewares, Kitchenware, Bedding ctae
- Empowerment to build on & influence the Merch Planning function
- Inner City Location, fun & energetic culture, many progression possibilities

**Your prospective employer**:
This incredibly fast growing, multi branded national group in the homewares (and related) space, has over 200 stores with each retail brand supported by full ecommerce offerings. Year after year they continue to invigorate their brand and secure their prominent holding and niche in the market. With a culture built around valuing its people, the business is strengthening its ability to attract and retain driven individuals who thrive on a challenge, through offering a work life balance that is rare in retail. For their customers they offer an extensive range of company owned brands as well as number of third-party brands to accommodate consumers at all price points. Recognised to be one of the largest in their core categories, this organisation is going through an exciting time and is embarking on a journey with significant growth and transformation. In addition, it has formed collaborations with some of Australia's best celebrity homemakers. Now is a super exciting time to get on board

**What’s in this for you?**
- The opportunity to be part of a passionate and driven team where your opinions matter
- Opportunity to be part of a 'down to earth', inclusive, values-based culture within an organisation that is firing on all cylinders
- Real influence into the merchandise planning function and how best to continue to develop and optimise
- Many career development and growth opportunities
- An attractive salary package to attract and retain

**What will you do in an average week?**

To support the development of the merchandise strategy through forecasting and analysing categories and articles. More specifically this will see you:

- Develop, execute and communicate strategic merchandise financial plans that support the company's financial, product and marketing objectives
- Translate Category plans into financial plans; sales, margin and inventory investment.
- Be responsible for developing a reporting top line financial plans and forecasts at Category to class/season level.
- Support Category level actions to maximize sales and margin, manage margin risk and optimizing inventory investment in assortments through analysis and recommendation.
- Develop and contribute to the development of company initiatives and ensures that all planning activities support annual goals.

**Here’s what it will take**:

- **Proven success as a Merchandise Planner**:You are an outcome oriented go getter. Junior Planners who are ready to step up will also be considered
- You are **highly commercial** and are driven by achieving financial results
- You thrive on working in a relatively unstructured environment and **adding value through improving processes** and tools
- An innate ability to understand where stock levels are at, so that you can push and pull stock depending on demand
- A strong capability to put together a financial plan for respective categories
- Experience in effectively managing inventory through its life cycle across all channels including catalogues, store changes, new store openings, deletions and any additions of new lines
- Experience developing strategic relationships with suppliers, where your inside knowledge keeps you one step ahead
- An absolute passion for personal development and desire to readily acquire new skills and challenge the status quo.

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