Job Description
Roles & Responsibilities
Key Responsibilities:
- Analyze historical sales, seasonality, and market trends.
- Forecast demand at category, design, and SKU levels.
- Determine initial buy quantities and reorder quantities.
- Review current stock, incoming stock, and target stock levels before making
Purchasing recommendations.
- Establish and maintain min/max stock levels and replenishment parameters for stores and warehouses.
- Determine safety stock and reorder points.
- Monitor stock availability and proactively identify overstock and stockout risks.
Product and Assortment Planning
- Recommend which designs, colors, and sizes should be launched, reordered, reduced, or discontinued.
- Analyze product productivity and identify top sellers and slow movers.
- Optimize assortment breadth and depth.
- Recommend the most effective allocation of inventory investment across categories and products.
Pricing, Markdown, and Clearance Planning
- Recommend initial selling prices for new products based on landed cost, target gross margin, competitive positioning, and expected demand.
- Analyze sell-through, gross margin, and inventory aging to recommend price adjustments.
- Recommend markdown percentages, promotional pricing, and clearance strategies.
- Monitor the impact of pricing decisions on sales, inventory turnover, and profitability
Allocation and Replenishment
- Determine stock allocation across stores and e-commerce.
- Recommend stock transfers between locations.
- Monitor replenishment performance and ensure stores maintain appropriate stock levels.
Desired Candidate Profile
Bachelor s degree in Business Administration, Supply Chain, Merchandising, or a related field.
- 3+ years of experience in merchandise planning, inventory planning, demand planning, or retail analytics.
- Strong analytical and numerical skills.
- Advanced Microsoft Excel skills.
- Experience with ERP systems such as Odoo.
- Strong command of written and spoken English.
- Strong understanding of retail merchandising, pricing, and inventory management.