Junior E-commerce Planner

Ares Holdings; Cape Town; On-site; ZAR 200,000 - 300,000; Full time

Job summary

A leading retail distributor in Cape Town is looking for a Merchandise Planner to optimize stock management and analyze product performance. You will work closely with the planning team to ensure effective inventory levels and sales targets are met. The ideal candidate has over 3 years of experience in retail planning, advanced Excel skills, and a degree in a related field. This role offers competitive perks including gym access and a wellness program.

Benefits

Gym & Shower facilities

Personal Trainer

Yoga

Pension Fund

Medical aid with Gap cover

Staff Allocation (R10 000 Retail Value per annum)

Staff discount (50% off for you and your family)

Healthy Lunch subsidy

Company performance incentive scheme

Long-service incentives

Holistic Employee Wellness programme

Qualifications

• 3+ years’ experience in merchandise planning and allocating in a retail environment.
• Ability to articulate a vision and purpose.

Responsibilities

• Implement stock plans to ensure strategic objectives are executed.
• Monitor customer orders and track shipments.
• Analyze sell-through data to optimize replenishment.

Skills

Strategic agility

Advanced Excel skills

Retail analysis

Education

Grade 12 or equivalent

Degree in Retail or Business

Tools

Excel

Shopify

SAP B1

Job description

Job Summary

This position is required to work closely with the Planner to analyse customer activity, forecast sales, select forward-trending merchandise and replenish stores optimally to maximise trading opportunities and minimise stock holdings in store.

Key Performance Area

Stock Management

• Implementing stock plans to ensure that strategic objectives are executed
• Monitoring customer orders
• Order Tracking as required
• Execute allocations to Ecom both seasonal and refill
• Ensuring product plan meets location plan targets and correct stock allocations meet sales targets
• Ensuring sufficient inflows of product to meet acceptable in stock percentages in order to maintaining agreed replenishment service levels and agreed planograms for locations
• Management of the seasonal flow of range assortments
• Ensure this meets the agreed seasonal selection as per ranges selected
• Ensure that stock percentages are maintained
• Ensure that trading pattern analysis are communicated to the team regularly
  
  

Product Analytics

• Analysis of sell through with necessary systems (Excel, Shopify and SAP B1) to optimize replenishment.
• Analyse where necessary to understand trading patterns
• Assist in monitoring in season trade and react accordingly
• Ensure end uses (Categories) are given the best possible space optimization to ensure sales efficiencies
• Analyse sells through weekly and monthly
• Ensure that trading pattern analysis are communicated to the team regularly
• Feedback on what are the overstocks and understocks, and which categories are over and underperforming
• Sales analysis on categories to show efficient sales
  
  

General

• Assist with any adhoc duties
• Maintaining a professional imagine whilst in the office e or travelling.
  
  

Qualifications And Skills

• Grade 12 or equivalent
• Degree in Retail, Business or any other related field
• 3+ years’ experience in merchandise planning and allocating in a retail environment
• Strategic agility and able to articulate a vision and purpose.
• Advanced Excel skills
  
  

Perks & Benefits

• You get to work for a rapidly expanding distributor with aspirational brands
• Gym & Shower facilities
• Personal Trainer
• Yoga
• Pension Fund
• Medical aid with Gap cover
• Staff Allocation (R10 000 Retail Value per annum).
• Staff discount (50% off for you and your family across all the brands within the group)
• Healthy Lunch subsidy
• Company performance incentive scheme
• Long-service incentives
• Holistic Employee Wellness programme
• The group prides itself in its effort to drive continuous employee engagement activities to enable a connected culture.
  
  

Should you not be contacted regarding this position within 2 weeks from the closing date, please regard your application as unsuccessful