Planner (Fixed-term - Multiple Opportunities)

2 weeks ago


Auckland City, New Zealand The Warehouse Group Full time

**Company Description**
Are you a seasoned Merchandise Planner looking for an exciting short-term opportunity? We have multiple parental leave cover positions available across our dynamic categories: Apparel, Appliances, and Kitchen & Dining.

The Warehouse Group (TWG) has become a Kiwi household name, and we proudly recognise the role that we play in communities throughout New Zealand. We are the largest general merchandise retailer in NZ across The Warehouse, Warehouse Stationery & Noel Leeming. We are at an exciting point in our journey where our focus is on becoming brand-centric, aiming to deliver an unparalleled experience for our customers. Agility and collaboration are cornerstones of our work culture, empowering us to adapt swiftly and work seamlessly together. By being brand-led and retail-focused, we are intentional about placing the right people in the right roles, allowing us to perform work that truly makes a difference.

As a Merchandise Planner, you will play a pivotal role in optimising our product assortment and inventory management strategies, delivering to our customers the best value range while maximising our return on investment. This will be across our different categories including apparel, homeware, grocery, toys, stationery and technology. Leverage your expertise in merchandise planning to drive data-driven decisions and maximise profitability. This position offers an exciting opportunity to blend analytical rigor with a passion for innovation in a fast-paced retail environment.

With strong financial acumen, assortment building skills and a real commercial mindset, you'll work collaboratively to drive optimisation and manage the product lifecycle process, whilst being consistently on top of trends and performance.

Key responsibilities include:

- Working with the Buyers on a range of assortment plans, controlling markdowns and category spend
- Setting budgets and reviewing forward plans
- Analysing product performance trends and making recommendations for improvement
- Improving stock-flow & product lifecycle management maximising our Stock ROI
- Demand planning/forecasting - includes impacts of promotional activity
- Interpreting data into a clear narrative & actionable outcomes - story telling
- Communicating data and strategy to key stakeholders

**Qualifications**
ou understand retail and merchandise planning; you always have customers front of mind and can interpret data into stories, translate customer mission strategies into actionable decisions that deliver results. All things that describe you - collaborative, excellent stakeholder management and communications skills, strong influencer. Our team members have the opportunity to practise their skillset in different categories so being nimble to change to meet business needs is essential Innate curiosity for ‘how we can do better’ will suit the fast-paced demands of the retail environment.

We are looking for someone ideally with:

- Retail and merchandise planning experience
- Balanced commercial acumen with numerical and analytical skills to translate data into commercial decisions
- Decisiveness in our dynamic, fast-moving environment

**Additional Information** Working with The Warehouse Group | Kia mahi tahi i Te Roopu Whare Putunga**

We offer a dynamic, supportive team environment within a business that cares about and recognises individuals. When you join us, we offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career which include:

- Discounts across most of our brands
- We value collaboration & flexibility - embracing hybrid working - up to 2 days working from home per week
- Paid birthday day off
- On-site gym and cafe at our North Shore Support office
- Free parking at our Northshore Support office
- 26 weeks paid parental leave (for permanent team members)
- A range of wellbeing support

**If you’re driven, adaptable and passionate about Merchandise Planning, let’s work together | Me mahi tahi tatou



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