Merchandise Planner - Gaming

The Warehouse Group; Auckland; Hybrid; NZD 70,000 - 100,000; Full time

Job summary

A major retail company in New Zealand is seeking a Merchandise Planner for their gaming category. You will analyze sales trends, forecast demand, and optimize stock strategies, ensuring product availability for customers. The ideal candidate has retail merchandise planning experience and strong analytical skills. Enjoy benefits such as hybrid working and team discounts in a supportive environment.

Benefits

Hybrid working (up to 2 days from home)

Team member discounts across brands

Wellbeing support

Leave benefits (birthday, charity day)

26 weeks paid parental leave for permanent team members

Qualifications

• Experience with branded suppliers and working with rebates/scan backs is beneficial.
• Decisive in a fast-moving environment.
• Ability to interpret data into clear narratives.

Responsibilities

• Collaborate with Buyers on assortment plans and control category spend.
• Set budgets and review forward plans.
• Analyze product performance trends and recommend improvements.
• Manage stock-flow and product lifecycle for optimized Stock ROI.
• Forecast demand accounting for promotional activity.
• Communicate data and strategy to stakeholders.

Skills

Retail and merchandise planning experience

Numerical and analytical skills

Excellent stakeholder management

Strong influencing skills

Job description

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!