Planner | Retail | Watsons UAE

• Sets overall guidelines for margin by product area and ensures processes are established to analyse margin deviation.

• Forecast weekly sales and margin by store and region highlighting risks and opportunities

• Manages markdown and promotional strategies to ensure margin is maintained to achieve bottom line

• Manages and owns Good/ Better/ Best pricing strategies

• Drives the Business Planning process for the brand to arrive at the budgeted sales & Margin (BP)

• Sales, Margin achieved versus BP and LE

• Forecast accuracy (+/- 10%)

• Gross Margin %, Markdown %

• Oversee full OTB process, sell through and markdown policy. Analytical and proactively manages sales, inventory and margin through effective range planning

• Provides accurate OTB plans for each category maximising sell through

• Forecasts intakes in line with OTB to give an accurate picture of weekly stockholding by brand.

• Manages and creates category planning

• Manages store clustering and distribution of stock to stores

• Creates, manages and maintains MSSI/ WSSI reports

• Manages monthly intake and timely deliveries in accordance with the brand and Market

• Ensures all markets have optimum inventory levels at any given point of time

• Manages the stock profile to ensure that aged inventory is kept to a minimum

• Availability, Forward Cover

• Ageing %, Ageing liability and provision

• Closing stock, cost and units

• Intake phasing

• OTB Planning accuracy

• Works in conjunction with buying team to develop effective, profitable assortment range

• Collaborates with Financial Planner to forecast budgets and latest estimates by region and store

• Builds and manages the range plans in conjunction with buying ensuring OTB is controlled

• Works closely with other departments including Buying, Retail, VM, Operations and Wholesale to ensure the product offer is optimised at all times and sales opportunities are maximised

• Collaborate with Marketing, Operations and the Brand teams to confirm the commercial calendar for all brands, which would include all key promotions in line with the markdown strategy

• Regular meetings with key stake holders to drive results

• Provide support and direction to the allocators / admin assistants and groom them to become future managers in the organization

• Provide periodic updates to the relevant stakeholders and conduct recurrent stakeholder meetings to ensure effective relationship and align with their expectation

• Ensure that SAP is maintained and is regularly and is operating effectively from an inventory point of view

• Develop and publish reports which will give accurate and reliable information to the management and facilitate decision making

• Support expansion by providing sales estimates and ensuring the availability of a proper stock package

• Understand gaps in the existing inventory control process & take corrective action to address these gaps in a timely manor

• Assist with the development and enforcement of robust inventory/ stock policies, procedures (SOPs) and ensure that the replenishment system in SAP is operating efficientl

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