Retail Planner - Mumbai, India - Shoppers Stop

    Shoppers Stop
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    Retail
    Description
    • To contribute to the development of the divisional Buying and Merchandising strategy and to work within this strategy at all times.
    • To contribute to the development of option plans and to maintain the library of option sales trends.
    • By liaison with, and through influencing suppliers, to progress the availability of product in line with agreed dates and to ensure that contracted intake is re-phased in line with changes to requirements.
    • To monitor weekly sales, stock and intake for each individual option within a department and to ensure that future projections are realistic and in line with stock availability.
    • Ensure that option level breaking stocks meet plan, and sales are maximized, by pro-actively making fully researched recommendations to the merchandiser and buyer in terms of proposed cancellation, re-buy and re-pricing activity.
    • To ensure the SKU stock of each option matches its selling ratio and size balancing takes place for repeat buys and flow lines.
    • To execute price changes and to raise contracts and purchase orders as necessary.
    • In case of new store stock planning, responsible for stock transfer ensuring correct option availability as per the planning.
    • To assist the merchandiser in the preparation of all performance analysis, participate in all regular reviews and presentations, and contribute to the development of merchandising processes and practices.

    Experience

    1-2.5 Years

    Qualifications and Education Requirements

    Graduate/Diploma in design/apparel merchandising, MBA-Marketing, NIFT (GMT/FD/Textile D&D), Pearl academy (IFTP)