Planner

Al Garhoud, Dubai
Permanent
Full-time

6 hours ago

About UsAs a leader in luxury retail in the Middle East, Al Tayer Group's retail division, Al Tayer Insignia, hosts a portfolio of some of the world's best luxury brands in the fashion, jewellery, home, and department store categories. Complementing its position in luxury retail, Al Tayer Insignia has also built new frontiers in lifestyle retail, representing leading brands in the Beauty, Home, Fashion and Hospitality sectors. Our brands include Bloomingdales, Harvey Nichols, Armani and newly added Gym Shark and The White Company, to name just a few!About The Role
The Planner - Online Department stores is responsible for delivering the division/brand merchandise strategy through development of the seasonal and yearly product and location sales plans, including forecasting and allocation of product; with a view to maximizing sales and gross margin.What You'll Be Doing
Functional Roles and Responsibilities:

Communicate trading issues and forecasts with proposed actions to senior management and Buying team

Build and maintain effective working relationships with suppliers

Manage all aspects relating to shipments, logistical processing and allocation function

Analyze Suppliers' delivery performance and, in conjunction with the Buying team, take appropriate actions

Contribute to future supplier strategies

Measure products' performance against agreed quality standards and take necessary action with suppliers

Assist in the decision-making and problem solving on supplier / brand / partner issues

Ensure team results, relationships and processes are aligned with the Company's mission, values and policies.

Deliver category sales, gross margin and sell-through performance to plan

Participate in the development of annual sales budgets and forecasts for specific brands by analyzing data on seasonal/ yearly trends

Identify and evaluate sales and gross margin opportunities at department level

Review, propose and implement mark-down activity to reduce terminal stock, whilst analyzing action taken on mark-downs to maximize profit

Monitor performance against plan, taking appropriate action to maximize sales and margins

Develop and maintain effective working partnership with divisions particularly Retail Managers / Store Managers / Logistics and Operations

Drive decision-making and problem solving relating to merchandise issues at division and location level

Ensure efficiency and effectiveness of merchandising business processes

Implement the agreed departmental strategy, in conjunction with the Buying team

Implement the agreed markdown strategy and communicate to stakeholders

Maintain OTB to manage forward buys in-line with department inventory targets

Manage communication and coordination with stores regarding price changes, product discontinuation, and brand / item focus

Evaluate market and customer information together with historical data and forward trends to develop the merchandise plans

Work with relevant stakeholders to monitor overall inventory levels to plan and forecast

Manage and review replenishment orders for the relevant products base

About YouYou need to have the below skills, qualification and experience to qualify for the role:University Degree in any discipline5-7 years experience successfully implementing planning function of large scale retail operations.Strong strategy and budgeting experience in Omni channels.Computer literacy, super user in MS Office like Excel, Power point and major ERP systemsStrong analytical skills and in depth knowledge of the industryAble to communicate effectively at Management LevelExcellent in prioritizing and meeting deadlinesStrong interpersonal skills.Additional Information

Job Detail: Bloomingdales Online

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