Location Planning Manager Miladys

Mr Price Group; Durban; On-site; ZAR 500 000 - 700 000; Full time

Job summary

A retail company in Durban seeks a Location Planning Manager to develop capabilities that maximize specific demand and drive performance. You will manage planning teams, oversee strategic alignment, and implement improvements in stock distribution to ensure profitability. Ideal candidates have a degree in Commerce or related fields, alongside 5-7 years of planning experience and strong skills in MSOffice and management. This role offers the chance to influence strategic business decisions and enhance customer experiences.

Qualifications

• 5-7 years of location/international/merchandise planning experience.
• 2-3 years of management experience.

Responsibilities

• Manage the Location Planning function to achieve team KPIs.
• Ensure efficient operation of location planning and merchandise teams.
• Oversee implementation of planning strategy and provide recommendations.
• Identify opportunities and risks within stock distribution.
• Maximize business opportunities across locations.
• Lead continuous improvement projects in the planning function.

Skills

MSOffice

Management

Value Chain

Import/Export Processes

Global Retail

Trend Analysis

Sales/Stock Forecasting

Communication

Strategy

Project Management

Profitability Metrics

Education

Degree or diploma in Commerce/Maths/Stats

Tools

Redworld MIS

Redworld

Efocus

Rpas

BI

High Jump

Job description

Hello!

Is it a new challenge you’re looking for?

What’s it about?

To develop divisional capability for Location Planning in order to maximise location specific demand and to enable growth. Leadership of the planning teams to formulate, control and drive the portfolio performance, according to the company’s strategic objectives and seasonal financial strategies in order to drive sales and profitability by providing a delightful in store experience for the customer through ensuring the right product, at the right price is in the right place at the right time. Development of respective processes to align and enable merchandise functioning in line with support teams to foster working relations and successful achievement of strategic KPIs.

Responsibilities

What will you do?

Management

Management of the Location Planning function with regards to achieving team KPI's / targets by bringing alignment at a strategic level, ensuring workload is effectively distributed and individuals are engaged in line with the business' priorities in order to translate the planning strategy into an operational plan.

Enablement of international/location planning and merchandise teams to operate efficiently and in alignment with strategic and operational requirements.

Strategic Alignment

Oversee the implementation of the divisional International and Location Planning strategy and provide SME recommendations to continually align actions to the completion of key projects and the overall business strategy success.

Trade Optimisation

Continuously identifying areas of opportunity and risk within the current execution of planned location specific stock and sales forecasted and the development/implementation of strategic actions to correct the projection in order to maintain the forecasted sales trajectory.

Location Planning

Maximising store specific business opportunities across all locations to increase company sales opportunities by non-comparative activity.

Stock Optimisation

Continuously managing and guiding the correct distribution of stock brought into the business across locations to achieve maximum return on investment.

Key Projects

Leading of continuous improvement projects within the International Retail and Location Planning function aimed to optimise business processes and achieve the execution of the business' strategic imperatives.

Qualifications

Do you tick all the boxes?

Education

Degree or diploma in Commerce/Maths/Stats

Experience

5-7 years location/international/merchandise planning experience

2-3 years management experience

Specific Knowledge

MSOffice, Management, Value Chain, Import/Export Processes, Global Retail, Trend Analysis, Sales/Stock Forecasting, Communication, Strategy, Project Management, Profitability Metrics

Business Understanding

Merch processes, DC/SC/Shipping processes, Redworld MIS, Redworld, Efocus, Rpas, BI, High Jump

Mr Price Group Limited is an equal opportunity employer and is committed to Employment Equity.