Lead Planner - Outdoor Living
Lead Planner - Outdoor Living
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Job Description
As the Lead Merchandise Planner for our Outdoor categories youll set the strategic planning direction leading a team of planners and partnering with the buying team to drive performance and profitability. This Lead Planner position will sit in the Home division and look after the Outdoor Living categories covering Dry and Green gardening Hardware Automotive BBQs and Outdoor Furniture. Youll lead and mentor two planners building capability and ensuring best-in-class planning practices are embedded across the team. Acting as the link between market insights and product availability youll ensure our customers find the items they need and love in our stores. This is a dynamic hands-on role where youll bring your commercial insight and planning expertise to shape our categorys success.
With strong financial acumen assortment building skills and a real commercial mindset youll work collaboratively to drive optimisation and manage the product lifecycle process whilst being consistently on top of performance.
Key responsibilities include:
- Lead category strategy build in collaboration with lead buyer.
- Ensure optimised implementation of strategy by actively trading the category and supporting team members
- Clearly communicate data actions and outcomes keep stakeholders up to date on progress provide and receive constructive feedback
- Financial build and deliver budget working within financial parameters
- Customer collaborate with buying team to effectively build a range that reflects the category strategy chasing opportunities and managing risk to financial plan. Quickly identifying trade trends and taking appropriate action to optimise outcomes.
- Range and process - Lead the range review with the buying team. Deliver to critical path dates articulate range decisions and impact on financial performance plan.
- Pricing and promotion Manage markdown (clearance and promo) plan effectively within financial targets and market changes.
- Team Lead 2x direct reports with clarity integrity and accountability
- Take ownership of tasks following policies and procedures ensuring quality accuracy and deadlines are met.
- Live the company culture values and behaviours
Range
- Deliver product range sales and buy plans within critical path financial parameters and budgets.
- Support and collaborate with Buying team to create and update product strategies to support long-term business plans.
- Ensure all product information is accurate and up-to-date using RPT as our sole ranging tool.
- Oversee and deliver range to optimise stock flow through managing entry exit and sell thru metrics
Financial
- Build budgets that deliver to company strategy customer demand and market opportunities.
- Manage future season OTB reacting to trade minimising risk and maximising opportunities.
- Create oversee and manage Category Financials plans planning stock flow to meet business requirements and reforecasting all metrics based on sales trends.
- Oversee the analysis of product performance and actions to improve
Pricing and Promotion
- Oversee and plan product pricing strategy as well as promotions opportunities in line with company strategy
- Lead the in-season trading strategy to deliver optimised margin outcomes.
- Manage price and promotional impact to support budget product lifecycle and stock flow.
Qualifications :
You are a rock star of merchandise planning you always have customers front of mind and can interpret data into stories translate customer mission strategies into actionable decisions that deliver results.
All things that describe you collaborative excellent stakeholder management and communications skills strong influencer.
To be considered for this role you must meet the following minimum requirements:
- 5 years retail and/or merchandise planning experience within a multi-category or large-scale retail environment
- Proven ability to lead and mentor merchandise planners driving capability development
- Strong commercial acumen coupled with flawless analytical skills to translate data into commercial outcomes
- Excellent stakeholder management and influencing skills with experience partnering cross-functionally
- Decisiveness in a dynamic fast-moving environment
Additional Information :
We offer a dynamic and supportive team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals.
We also offer a range of benefits that work for you your lifestyle and your career which include flexible working arrangements team member discounts wellbeing support leave benefits and more!
MAKE SUSTAINABLE LIVING EASY AND AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYONE!dont hesitate. APPLY
Remote Work :
No
Employment Type :
Full-time
Employment Type
Full-time
