Merchandise jobs in South Africa

APAC Merchandise Planner

London, UK

Who You Are:

As a Planner for Jimmy Choo APAC region, you will drive the APAC business by running the region’s Omni merchandise planning process, including location & OTB forecasts as well as trading to optimize bestsellers and desrisk slower stock.

What You’ll Do:

• Achieve and drive assigned business goals and objectives including sales, inventory, and gross margin.
• Forecast store level budgets understanding sales curves through use of history and planning building blocks.
• Create Open to Buys, in conjunction with Merchandising lessons learnt, summarising plans for the Global team.
• Control stock levels across the region, proposing and monitoring country stock targets and KPIs.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to improve sales performance through stock transfers or reorders.
• Work closely with the regional Merchandise Buying teams to determine the topline Seasonal OTB strategy prior to the seasonal buying campaign, presenting the key targets to the CEO / CFO and Global Merchandising Teams.
• Determine the OTB requirement by store and set up the Seasonal Option Plan for all departments ahead of the Seasonal Buying Campaign.
• Oversee the Sizing strategy for the Seasonal buys and Continuity reorders, incorporating changing market and client profile needs.
• Identify and recommend opportunities to the Allocator to improve sales performance through stock rebalancing/ transfers, reorders and markdown strategy on a weekly / monthly and seasonal basis.
• Oversee all distribution processes, giving guidance to the Allocator to ensure best practice in all Allocation and Replenishment processes.
• Implement robust Markdown strategies to optimize the markdown inventory and ensure store markdown budgets / reforecasts are achieved.
• Be responsible for the monthly reordering and forecasting of continuative lines, ensuring stock availability is balanced with stock turn.
• Manage weekly Reports and Sales Analysis for business in Asia Pacific.
• Produce trade commentary on a weekly and monthly basis.
• Collate comprehensive hindsight analysis to develop product and inventory strategies.
• Ad-hoc sales analysis for senior management.
• Utilise Merchandise Planning Tool for efficient working practices.

You’ll Need to Have:

• Graduate calibre.
• 3+ years merchandising planning experience within a fashion retail background, preferably within a luxury brand.
• Advanced Excel skills essential, with the ability to handle large data sets.
• Strong quantitative and analytical skills with exceptional reporting capabilities and attention to detail.
• Commercial awareness to maximise sales and profit opportunities.
• Knowledge of supply chain processes, particularly replenishment systems.
• Excellent communication skills.

We’d Love to See:

• Experience of an Omni-channel retailer (e.g. in store ordering and fulfilling e-commerce orders from store).
• Experience working with a Merchandise Planning tool.

Our values - creative, open, and courageous

Equality, diversity and inclusion

At Jimmy Choo, we are committed to building a representative business that is empowered by our celebration of difference and enriches our creative solutions. We are all responsible for creating a diverse and inclusive workplace. We try to inspire change and growth within each other and believe success is a result that comes from our differences. Jimmy Choo is proud to be an equal opportunity employer committed to inclusivity.

Jimmy Choo Perks

• 25 days holiday.
• Summer Fridays.
• Product Allowance and Discounts.
• Exclusive Employee Sales.
• Private Healthcare.
• Pension and Life Insurance.