PURPOSE & OVERALL RELEVANCE FOR THE ORGANISATION:

1. Work with the team to achieve best allocation & replenishment plan for Retail business.
2. Build up strong relationship with SCM team as well as own retail team by providing consistent and pertinent communication
3. Drive action plan proactively to achieve targets
4. Monitor and mange retail MOH to achieve health stock level

KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

Planning

5. Develop, align and implement weekly, monthly and yearly merchandise demand plan to achieve the sales and inventory target as well as weeks coverage to maximize product usage.
6. Drive replenishment planning forecast to maximize the business opportunities and manage the workflow downstream with stakeholders.
7. Collaborate with senior planning manager to align the inventory demand forecast based on inventory and sales target.

Define business opportunities through markdowns, promotion and manage stock on hand at store level.

Allocation

8. Coordinate store managers, operations team and internal AP team assortment needs per month
9. Consolidate these needs into an efficient assortment range
10. Analyze daily sell-through and adjust assortments and deliveries to ST results
11. Actively participates to the retail KPI’s delivery
12. Manage with Logistics team on-time delivery of all assortments in accordance with store sell-in and sell-through targets, provide promotion and discount
13. Manage weekly, monthly and quarterly reporting and drive action plans proactively from promotion, markdowns, inventories, sales & week covers prospective under brands, product types, seasonality’s aspect.
14. Collaborate with operation and SCM team on product delivery including scheduling and capacity management in both warehouse and stores
15. Lead CS channel promotions, including campaign communication, system setup, and performance analysis
16. Team data owner, responsible for building and maintaining core team datasets and analyzing regular performance reports

Processes

17. Clear understanding Retail KPI and targets, growth strategies, related policies and processes
18. Monitor data compliance, identify issues and propose solutions
19. Proactively work with stakeholders to drive the best practice
20. Concurrently review process and necessary enhancement to support the growth of the business in term of qualitive deliverable in the factory outlet team

KEY RELATIONSHIPS:

Own Retail Buying,  Planning, Global IT, Project Team, BP, DP, Operation etc.

KNOWLEDGE, SKILLS AND ABILITIES:

21. Solid Data analysis skill 
22. Inventory Management or Planning experience
23. Excellent interpersonal/communication skills (internal & external)
24. Team player
25. Influencing skill
26. Practical, reactive
27. Results oriented
28. High execution ability and self-management

REQUISITE EDUCATION AND EXPERIENCE / MINIMUM QUALIFICATIONS:

29. University advanced degree
30. Minimum 6 years’ experience in merchandising planning / buying function
31. Sensitive to ready to wear industry
32. Good understanding of retail business
33. Effective partnering, communication, and influencing skills (written and orally) –someone who can proactively communicate analysis/methodologies with functional partners and influence them to rethink and change their existing practices
34. Rigorous business analysis - understanding and interpreting data; putting data/analysis/tools in a structured, easy-to-use format; and making recommendations that team can act upon
35. Prefer very good Excel modelling skills and ability to develop useful models/tools that can be rolled out to merchandising and retail teams
36. Prefer good Excel and PPT skills
37. Strong PC skills

IT

Excel – excellent

PowerPoint – advanced

Outlook – advanced

PowerPoint: Advanced

Language Skills

English: Advanced

Local Language: Fluent