Found Description
Primary Purpose of Role
The Planner is responsible for:
- Setting and maintaining the merchandise and assortment plans for a gender/s and class/s within the team
- Budgeting, forecasting activities and providing financial analysis to ensure that financial goals and sales targets are met
- Category and product analysis to define buy quantities
- Order raising and stock allocation
- Providing instore merchandising and display guidelines
Key Result Areas and Responsibilities
A. Financial Performance
- Establish budgets and forecast future returns using all available information.
- Contribute to the achievement of the department’s sales and gross profit targets.
- Manage the costing and pricing process.
- Provide commercial analysis to inform and confirm buying decisions.
- Analysis and forecasting of sales, profits, purchases and stocks, by department...