Planning Manager
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Job Description
Takealot a leading South African online retailer is looking for a highly talented Planning Manager to join our Retail Planning Team in Cape Town.
We are a young dynamic hyper growth company looking for smart creative and hardworking people with integrity to join us. We offer a market related Total Remuneration Package which allows full flexibility according to your needs a great work environment and a promise that you wont be bored as long as you are prepared for a challenge and want to build something great.
The position reports to the Head of Planning
Your responsibilities will include:
- Work in partnership with Buying Managers to drive the growth and market share objectives of the division in line with the retail strategy
- Own and manage divisional annual sales margin and stock budgets to ensure targets are achieved
- Daytoday management of margin working capital investment forecasting availability and stock health
- Develop and manage the implementation of the appropriate merchandise cycle ensuring that all milestones including but not limited to; seasonality promotion planning markdown cycles import purchasing & continual replenishment are achieved based on the appropriate lead times and procurement cycle
- Create sustainable instock systems and processes in partnership with Central Planning Supply Chain technical and product teams
- Support the build of balanced and profitable seasonal range plans.
- Drive complex business analysis that identifies opportunities to improve cost structure and profitability focusing on continual contribution margin improvements
- Lead a team of planners
Attributes required:
- Strong numerical and analytical aptitude capable of turning raw data into information and insights
- Team oriented with strong written and oral communication skills and able to effectively manage multiple projects with a high degree of accuracy and meet demanding timelines
- Ability to work independently strong attention to detail and a passion for process implementation
- Proven track record of managing and executing large projects from start to finish including project management data gathering and modeling problem solving and communicating recommendations
- Exceptional problem solving & analytical skills
- Strong proficiency in using Excel
- Proactive attitude and willingness to roll up sleeves and dig deep to achieve high level goals
Qualifications:
- Bachelors degree in Engineering Business Finance or related field
- 7 years of experience in Retail planning
- Minimum of 2 years of experience in a Retail Merchandise Manager role
- Advanced computer literacy experience in Excel and Planning systems
- Proven experience leading a team
- Experience working with large and complex data sets to drive business decisions
The Environment:
- takealot employees are entrepreneurial and dynamic smart customercentric fun and have the shared ambition of takealot being the leading ecommerce company in Africa.
- We have fun work hard take ownership work in teams to create solutions and are always open to direct feedback/new ideas on where we can improve.
- We are short on ego and high on output.
- We are doers and not only thinkers its all in the after all.
- We love what we do and what we are creating.
We seek to Employ an Extra Ordinary Mind who:
- is respectful but forthright
- is an expert at doing who can not only design but also execute
- is analytical able to use data to make decisions
- is competitive selfdirected and strive to be the BEST (GREAT requires a lot of work and does not only happen during business hours
- is passionate about the potential of ecommerce and delivering a worldclass customer experience
- is entrepreneurial thrives under change and accepts it is a constant and always looks for solutions to do something better and faster
- is business SMART. Able to think about problems from a business perspective using technical and product input;
- is curious and challenge the status quo
- is innovative and enjoys iteration
- is collaborative
- will be at the cutting edge of developing new concepts for takealot
- thinks like an owner of the business
- is SMART has INTEGRITY and is HARD WORKING
If you meet the above you are an Extraordinary Mind so come and join us!
Takealot is an Equal Opportunity Employer. We encourage applicants from the previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities to apply.
Required Experience:
Manager
Employment Type
Full Time
