Merchandise Planning Lead

This role will collaborate closely with Commercial, Finance & Inventory Management team to drive optimal in-season decisions for the market.

Responsibilities:

• Manage assortment portfolio & life cycle within the season incorporating financial expectations.
• Collaborate with SEA Demand Planning, Market Finance and Commercial teams to reconcile bottom-up revenue plans and top-down sales targets for Market level.
• Manage & coordinate market store segmentation, buy budget and OTB management with key stakeholders in the local market.
• Support Market sales / GP$ / sell-out performance and align actions with Commercial & Finance Leads to manage in-season profitability, and maximize full price sell thru / margin whilst maintaining health of inventory profile.
• Develop accurate store inventory flow forecasts that support business strategies.
• Execute allocation strategies to optimize inventory, including new store assortments and replenishments for each Outlet based on BE (Brand Experience) and VM (Visual Merchandising) recommendations.
• Use inputs from sizing team, historical performance & qualitative feedback from retail ops to update allocation parameters and derive size curve by product/store in order to optimize store/door sell through.
• Participate in affiliate weekly operation meeting to proactively highlight issues to get resolution.
• Work with SEA inventory management to ensure consistent in-season allocation & replenishment to drive appropriate coverage within the market DC while managing through inventory spikes beyond the capacity of our stores.
• Bridge the communications between SEA and local functional teams to ensure ways of working and brand strategy are consistently executed in local market.
• Actively support local S&OP process, providing necessary insights and recommending courses of action.
• Develop market parameters (target Weeks of Cover & model stock) for new items and/or new stores with established monitoring mechanism (Scorecard).
• Collaborate with Order Management / Distribution / Logistics to plan out operation activities considering of holidays / capacity / manpower constraints.
• Hind-sighting store performance & end of season performance.

Requirements:

• Bachelor’s degree or equivalent experience.
• 5-7 years of work experience in Retail business.
• Strong analytical skills to interpret meaningful themes from quantitative data.
• Ability to articulate key financial measures, and how they are used in key systems/tools.
• Comfort with systems and high proficiency with Microsoft Office (Excel & Power point).
• Prior experience with planning solutions (SAS, BI, SAP, etc.) a plus.
• Ability to use rigor and logic to solve problems with effective solutions.
• Ability to problem solve – both independently, and through strong business partnerships.
• Ability to analyze and assess impact of business decisions, both direct and indirect.
• Proactively identify business issues and develop creative solutions.
• Consistently prioritize and manage workload and processes to meet objectives.
• Ability to build constructive and effective relationships with a broad, diverse group of business partners.
• Ability to influence stakeholders through the delivery of articulate messages, backed by robust analysis.
• Strong interpersonal skills and proven ability to work with diverse teams.
• Ability to adjust communication style to provide information and direction in an effective manner.

LOCATION

501A, Level 5, Uptown 1,1 Jln SS21/58 Damansara Uptown, Petaling Jaya 47400 Selangor Darul Ehsan, Selangor Malaysia

FULL TIME/PART TIME

Full time

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