Retail Planner - Beauty

Thank you for your interest in joining our team! QVC Group, Inc. is a Fortune 500 company with six leading retail brands – QVC, HSN, Ballard Designs, Frontgate, Garnet Hill and Grandin Road. We are a live social shopping company that redefines the shopping experience through video-driven commerce on every screen, from smartphones and tablets to laptops and TVs.
QVC Group brings innovative products, compelling content, and unforgettable moments to millions of shoppers worldwide via social platforms, streaming apps, ecommerce sites and TV channels, making every screen a doorway to discovery, delight and community.

The Opportunity

For our Merchandising team based in Brugherio (MB) we are looking for a Planner (Beauty division) - full time permanent position.

We work in a dynamic and diverse environment and when we say that two days are never the same, we’re not kidding. Just look around our business and it’s easy to see why.

Featuring the right products on air at the right time of day is a necessary factor in maximizing sales in QVC and this exciting challenge could be yours!

Your Impact

Reporting to the Planning Manager your main responsibilities will be:

Maximizing Sales & Margins:

1. Strategize items to maximize selling exposures on all the QVC platforms.
2. Identify opportunities leveraging pricing promo, installment payments and free shipping.
3. Monitor and review sales performance.
4. Manage Beauty and cross category multiplatform campaigns.
5. Partner with Buying to analyze business and develop short and mid-term strategic plans.

Stock Management

1. Manage and action overall inventory to assigned goal.
2. Analyze item performances and determine next actions such as re-orders, promotions and return to vendor.
3. Identify and action markdown and inventory liquidation/clean-up, ensuring that the correct status, pricing and liquidation strategy is applied following QVC's guidelines.
4. Identify opportunities within category assortment based on sales trends and gaps in the inventory.

Reporting

1. Partner with Buying and Commerce Platforms to forecast, plan and recap campaigns.
2. Forecast with high accuracy sales and inventory providing information for the open to buy process.
3. Build and explore/understand reports to get insights in order to update Brand/product strategy during the year.

What you bring

1. At least 2-3 years experience in a similar role.
2. Experience of being responsible for a product area and stock management.
3. Excellent knowledge of Excel.
4. Fluency in Italian and English is a must.
5. Ability to work in a dynamic and collaborative environment.
6. Strong analytical skills.
7. Exposure to Tableau and Microstrategy for reporting activities (nice to have).

What we offer

At QVC we value talent and strive to create an engaging and caring working environment as we appreciate our team members’ hard work and dedication.
We offer an attractive compensation and benefit package as well as many exciting activities including but not limited to:

1. Competitive salary and performance bonus.
2. Hybrid work.
3. Internal Cafè & Canteen service every day.
4. Corporate benefits and wellness.
5. Volunteering initiatives and activities funded by the company.

If you enjoy being a part of a team, creating experiences and delighting customers, you’ll love it here. If you’re excited about retail, media, social, live streaming, technology, customer service, design and more, you’ll find amazing projects to work on. If you want to grow professionally and learn every day, you’ll thrive with us. If you appreciate a company committed to inclusion and belonging for all, you’ll be amazed at what’s available for our team members. We offer a comprehensive Total Rewards package including competitive compensation, paid time off, employee assistance program, parental leave, paid volunteer hours, company discounts and much more. Best of all, working with QVC Group means friendly teams, ambitious projects and fast-moving careers!

For QVC Group, our commitment to inclusion and belonging for all is deeply rooted in Our Principles. They call on us to Drive Progress, Act With Empathy, Be Brave, Embrace the Future, and Do What’s Right so that everyone can thrive. We are committed to ensuring that our workplace provides equal employment opportunities for all team members and candidates and complies with all applicable federal, state, and local laws and regulations. As an equal opportunity employer, QVC Group is committed to a barrier-free employment process. If you need reasonable accommodations/support throughout, please contact us at CareersQI@qvc.com for assistance.

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