Description:
THE ICONIC is looking for Junior Planner - Womenswear
What’s involved…
- Work closely with buying teams to develop and implement a department strategy to drive sales and maximize profit
- Review in season and postseason performance, giving recommendations of areas to focus on, grow and decline
- Work with your buying counterpart to manage the critical path
- Manage a detailed WSSI, own the forecasting and present in reforecast meetings.
- Use the WSSI to review STD trade and identify any concerns/anomalies with the forecast by reviewing the BTA. Suggest actions to keep trade on track to achieve/ exceed KPIs
- Strive for optimal profit by managing stock margins of items into and out of the business
- Collaborate with buying & marketing to trial new categories, products and brands
- Conduct in depth competitor shops and market analysis. Utilise tools such as Web Analytics to understand potential brand reach. Present findings and draws conclusions and actions from this analysis
- Build strong relationships with key brands and form relationships within the industry to gain insights on performance and strategy
About You…
- You have a thorough understanding of systems, merchandising processes and tasks, with an approach of best practice.
- 1-3+ years experience in planning or in a similar role.
- A proactive attitude, always looking to improve processes or bring increased efficiencies to your work.
- Confident communicator with the ability to adapt your style depending on your audience.
- Works well under pressure and able to manage changing priorities in your workload
- Develops a comprehensive knowledge of systems and processes and internal/external impacts on them
- Excellent attention to detail, analytical skills and understanding of retail math and Excel
- Understands how a WSSI works and how it is used to keep track of department KPIs