Merchandise Apparel Planner Apparel

Location: Williams Landing, VIC, AU
- Category: Merchandise & Marketing
- Work Type: Permanent Full Time

**Who are we?**

At Target, we deliver quality products at prices the whole family will love for longer. We're home to quality pieces, made for you and your life.

With our iconic logo, we are one of the most renowned Australian retail brands and for almost 100 years, we have held a special place in the hearts and minds of Australian families.

We're immensely proud of our history and are looking for people to join us who are as excited by our future as we are.

**And we're thrilled to share that we'll be moving to our brand-new office at Chadstone
- a hub of creativity, collaboration, and inspiration in early 2026. Join us as we step into an exciting new chapter**

**What will you do?**
- With the ongoing growth within Target, we are looking for passionate Merchandise Planners with Apparel and/or Soft Home experience to join a fun & supportive team within a fast-paced & dynamic environment to drive our strategy & play a key part in the growth of our Apparel functions.

You are responsible for maximising sales and profit through the effective management of the department range architecture and product assortment and ensuring that the commercial plan is executed to deliver the department strategy. Accountable for inventory health and balancing customer facing availability with stock productivity.

You will work collaboratively with key stakeholders to develop strategies and processes to drive sales and profitability in line with Target's values. This is a pivotal role where you can make an impact across our stores and the wider merchandise team through superior planning skills of our inventory. Strong experience in price architecture and product assortment ranging in a large volume retailer is essential.
- Other responsibilities will include:

- Range Planning: Building a product range that meets both customer needs and business goals.
- Trend Analysis: Incorporate market trends and customer feedback into your range planning process.
- Private Label Strategy: Develop strategies to manage private label products.
- Supplier Relationships: Work with suppliers to ensure the quality and timely delivery of private label products.
- Pricing Strategy: Develop and implement pricing strategies for different product categories.
- Management of supplier range plans to ensure alignment to the Target strategy.
- Support the Buyer to develop the category strategy by developing & managing the category budget and forecast.Accountable for allocation strategies, incorporating the merchandise plan and flow strategy to meet store inventory needs providing guidance to inventory controller and Demand Planner.
- Ensure key deliverable KPI's such as Sales, Profit, OTB and inventory are managed within agreed parameters.Ensure key deliverable KPI's such as Sales, Profit, OTB and inventory are managed within agreed parameters.

**What are we looking for ?**

We're looking for a commercially savvy individual who will bring a curious and data-driven mind-set as well as a passion for all things Retail You love focusing on product, customers are always front of mind and building and managing relationships with a variety of key stakeholders is one of your strengths.

**To be successful in this role you will have experience as follows**:

- Strong commercial acumen and numerical skills, high levels of attention to detail. Advanced Planning Skills - Forecasting, OTB management, Financial Skills and Strategic thinking.
- Ability to observe, interpret and act upon trends in customer behaviour.
- Highly inquisitive, self-driven with strong organisation skills in a fast paced retail environment.
- Quantification of individual products over time.
- Strong in range architecture and product assortment experience.
- Ability to articulate observations, reasons for actions taken and high levels of persuasiveness.
- Proficient with business intelligence tools, Excel, Word and Outlook.
- Demonstrated ability to complete accurate product plans, replans, prepare financial budgets and department performance analysis
- Ability to optimise stock turn through sales forecasting, stock flow and product planning expertise
- Proficiency in use of merchandise planning software such as enterprise planning (Blue yonder)/JDA, SAP, Oracle etc.
- Tertiary qualifications in Finance, Business, Commerce or Retail related degree
- Planning experience across a variety of apparel categories is advantageous

**Benefits we'll offer**:

- Flexible hybrid working options through our Flex Where, Flex When, Flex Well policy.
- Access to our team member discount program which can be used across our company network, including Target, Kmart, Bunnings, and Officeworks.
- A free OnePass membership offering free delivery across Target and Kmart on eligible product.
- Access to our benefits program, which entitles you to exclusive discounts and benefits in the areas of entertainment