Commercial Planner Chapter Member

2 weeks ago

Auckland City, New Zealand The Warehouse Full time

Company Description

Are you a customer-centric Merchandise Planner excited to drive results in our dynamic environment? Or perhaps you’re adaptable with a high growth mindset, financially commercial and strategic with proven experience in delivering key objectives and results through optimization and planning?

The Warehouse Group (TWG) is a New Zealand success story, evolving from a single The Warehouse store to become one of the largest multi-brand retailing groups in New Zealand. As a company, we’re continuing our innovation and agile journey - with bold new ways of moving forward, empowering teams and with more effective collaboration and communication, we have our customers top of mind and work purposefully together, “Helping Kiwis live better every day”.

**Job Description**:
We're currently recruiting for a Merchandise Planner to join the Commercial Planning chapter in the Dry and Green Gardening space on a 12-month parental leave contract, to start immediately/ASAP

Your role as Commercial Planning Chapter Member (Merchandise Planner) is to balance what our customers need with how our business delivers through insightful commercial planning and pricing across our product ranges.

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

Your key responsibilities will include:

- Working with the Buyers on range assortment plans, controlling markdowns and category spend
- Setting budgets and reviewing forward plans
- Analysing product performance trends and making recommendations for improvement
- Reporting and planning - providing effective financial, forecasting and stock flow management reports
- promotional activity
- Managing stock-flow and monitoring aged stock
- Demand planning forecasting

**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. Our chapter members have the opportunity to practise their craft 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

We offer a dynamic, supportive team environment working with like-minded people within a business that cares about and recognises individuals. We’re excited as we continue to innovate, and by empowering our teams and increasing cross-collaboration, we aim to make TWG New Zealand’s best place to work

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