Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organisation:

Execute accurate products investment to achieve the assigned brand or channel financial target (NS, profitability, ST% and inventory)

 

Key Responsibilities:

Pre-Season Merchandise Planning

• Execute category buying within the given Open-To-Buy according to buying strategy, financial target, and historical analysis
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• Support historical analysis and prepare pre-season buying guideline
• Build assortment plans by store format and clusters based on market RA, local needs & calendar
• Combines/validates category assortment plans from BUs, and finalizes into a holistic, full store format assortment plan (width)
• Output all assortment plans for all store formats factoring regionalization needs.
• Integrate VM, OCM upfront into assortment building process and support VM plan
• Depth planning: Develop the right assortment by channel or store format and support to determine appropriate order depth
• Support Retail forecast as considering demand and inventory 
• Follow GTM process and support quarterly trade meeting for entire DTC channels
• Gather sales trends, market insight or requirements to share with supervisors
• Size analysis

 

Process and In-Season merchandising management

• Handover process to In-season team for trading (initial dispatch to replenishment)
• Analyse in season performance tracking reports
• Support analysis to develop mark down strategy and mark-down & clearance process
• Support supervisor to track repeat or Spot plan on Speed articles (NOOS, PR)

 

Post-Season Review

• Prepare and support analysis and documentation for post-season review
• Support seasonal deep dive analysis for supervisor to develop action steps for next season

 

 

Key Relationships:

• All Retail functions (esp. Buying and Retail Trading, Sales, Excellence Team)
• BU ,
• Retail Stores
• Supply Chain (DP, Order Fullfillment & DC)
• IT

 

Knowledge, Skills and Abilities:

• Good business acumen and analysis skills
• Interpersonal and communication skills (both internal and external)
• Advanced skills in MS Office
• Ability to work effectively within a team environment and under pressure
• Result oriented
• High execution ability and self-management
• Fluent in English
• Strong sense of Sports & fashion trends

 

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree and/or commercial training in the area of Finance, Accounting, Economics, Marketing or Sales are preferred.
• Minimum 3 years of work experience in retail merchandising, buying, product or retails sales related field