Merchandise Planner

6 days ago


Auckland City, New Zealand The Warehouse Group Full time

**Company Description**
Are you a meticulous planner with a passion for office furniture and the latest in tech? Do you thrive in a fast-paced environment where strategic planning and innovation come together? If so, we have an exciting opportunity for you

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 for our Office & Tech space, you will be instrumental in driving product availability and delivering on financial KPIs. You’ll work closely with the buying team to forecast trends, analyse sales performance, and ensure stock flow meets customer demands. This is a dynamic, hands-on role where you’ll bring your commercial insight and planning expertise to shape our category success.

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 stakeholder

**Qualifications**
You 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.

To be considered for this role you must meet the following minimum requirements:

- 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**
We offer a dynamic, flexible and supportive team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals.

We also offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career which include flexible working arrangements, team member discounts, wellbeing support, leave benefits and more

**MAKE SUSTAINABLE LIVING EASY AND AFFORDABLE FOR EVERYONE** don’t hesitate. APPLY


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