Merchandise Planner

2 days ago

Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand The Warehouse Group Full time

Company Description
Are you a talented merchandise planner with a passion for bringing the right product mix to range through data-driven insights? Here's your chance to make an impact, shaping the success within our Gaming category

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. Agility and collaboration are cornerstones of our work culture, empowering us to adapt swiftly and work seamlessly together.

Job Description
As the Merchandise Planner for Gaming (think gaming consoles, games, gaming accessories or even collectibles) you'll play a key role in driving category performance. Partnering with our buying and supply chain teams, you'll analyse sales trends, forecast demand, and optimise stock strategies. Acting as the link between market insights and product availability, you'll ensure our customers find the items they need – and love. 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, 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
  • Understanding of branded suppliers, working with rebates/scan backs and experience with tech beneficial

Additional Information

By being brand-led and retail-focused, we are intentional about having the right people in the right roles, allowing us to perform work that truly makes a difference. We offer a dynamic and supportive team environment working with like-minded people and can promise exciting work that make an impact everyday

We also offer a range of benefits that work for you, your lifestyle and your career which include hybrid working (up to 2 days from home), team member discounts across brands, wellbeing support, leave benefits (birthday, charity day, and 26 weeks paid parental leave for permanent team members) and more

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