Trainee Location Planner Sheet Street

Mr Price Group Careers; Durban; On-site; ZAR 120,000 - 180,000; Full time

Job summary

Mr Price Group Limited offers a structured trainee programme designed to build key skills in merchandise planning, forecasting, and financial reporting. Trainees learn to analyse performance, optimize stock, and contribute to assortment decisions for seasonal launches across departments, with guidance from experienced buyers and planners.

The program emphasizes building understanding of sales, stock, and profit measures, and requires a BCom degree in Business Science, Accounting, Statistics,

Qualifications

• BCom degree or equivalent in listed fields.

Responsibilities

• Apply learnt knowledge & skills by supporting the learning programme.
• Demonstrate awareness of performance drivers and manage opportunities & risks accordingly.
• Assist with forecasting a financial plan and highlight variances for sales, stock and markdown planning.
• Extract & analyse financial KPI's & product performance against plan.
• Contribute to drafting a report on issues impacting performance.
• Assist with re-forecasting and action planning for current trade.
• Participate in building the assortment plan with buying and planning teams.
• Ensure accurate order lines and product attributes during season planning.

Education

Business Science

Accounting

Statistics

Economics

Finance

Strategic Management

Mathematics

Supply Chain

Job description

Trainee's follow a bespoke structured programme. With support and guidance build key knowledge and skills that equip the role to develop category plans which demonstrate the ability to plan the right merchandise for the right stores at the right time as well as a strong understanding of all the financial measures around sales, stock & profit.

Responsibilities

Job Learning:

• Apply learnt knowledge & skills by:
• Demonstrating an awareness of the factors influencing our performance in current trade and how to manage opportunities & risks accordingly.
• Demonstrating how to optimize stock in the light of the critical path & achievement of KPI's (Key Performance Indicators).
• Participate in building a product assortment informed by current trade, post-mortem, and the seasonal strategy.

Demonstrating how to forecast a financial plan, and highlight variances for sales, orders, stock, and markdown planning going-forward.

Current Trade:

• Extract & analyze financial KPI's & product performance against set plan by sub department season, category & sub category.
• Contribute towards compiling a draft report highlighting all issues that have impacted performance.
• Assist with re-forecasting financial plan iro sales, orders, stock, markdowns & concluding current trade action plan.
• Conduct regular competitive shops/store visits & as an outcome relay the findings & recommended action plan.

Building an Assortment:

• Participate in building the assortment plan in collaboration with the buying & location planning team.
• Maintain the assortment in the relevant system (APS).

Extract & analyze reports on the assortment for the planner.

Order Placement & Product Allocation:

• Create all order lines for the season with your greater team ensuring accuracy in all detail inclusive of category & sub category detail, product attributes, size curve, cost prices, selling prices, and PMO.
• Follow up on order & resolve any potential problems with the planner.
• Assist the greater team with order raising and allocations are completed timeously according to calendar deadline requirements.

Qualifications

A completed BCom degree in one of the following:

• Business Science
• Accounting
• Statistics
• Economics
• Finance
• Strategic Management
• Mathematics
• Supply Chain

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