Senior Planner (Fashion Retail)

Superbalist.com is South Africa’s leading fashion and lifestyle retailer, operating across a growing portfolio of online and physical stores . We’re obsessive about building a high-performance, collaborative culture that delivers results fast. We think big, move quickly, take ownership and strive to win, always with our customer at the heart of what we do.

We’re lucky to work alongside some of the sharpest minds in the industry — building a world-class brand across digital and physical platforms.

Purpose of the role:

Creation of the Departmental financial strategy and execution of the Business strategy, by delivering a product offer that exceeds customers’ expectations, and achieves sales and profit targets combined with effective inventory management.

Key responsibilities:

• Profit Maximisation.
• Preparation of budgets, sales, stock and profit targets.
• Monitor performance against plan, taking appropriate action to maximize sales and profit and reduce stock holding whilst increasing stock turn.
• Identify new business opportunities to grow sales and profitability.
• Review, propose and implement mark-down activity to reduce terminal stock whilst analyzing action taken on mark-downs to maximize profit.
• Communicate trading issues and forecasts with proposed actions to management and buyer.
• Implement promotional plans to optimise sales and profit.
• Measure brand/supplier performance against targets and make recommendations to grow or exit.
• Range Building and Planning Develop and agree plans in partnership with the buyer that achieve sales and profit targets and implement the agreed departmental strategy.
• In conjunction with the buyer, build balanced and profitable seasonal range plans.
• Evaluate market and customer information together with historical data to develop the department’s phased stock plans and pricing strategy.
• Inventory/Commitment Management Manage and forecast the intake of stock in line with agreed OTB stock levels.
• Plan and implement replenishment volumes for continuity products.
• Monitor and manage the availability of stock.
• Promote stock efficiency through in season trading whilst managing forward covers.
• Collaborate with the supply chain to ensure planned launch and replenishment dates are met.
• Manage terminal stock.
• Manage volume buys and optimal size ratios.

Minimum Requirements and Experience:

• 2 Years + Proven working experience as a Senior Planner and 5 years Planning experience is essential.
• A high degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed and strategic approach to work.
• Advanced computer literacy in excel and planning system.
• Matric (must include Mathematics).
• Bachelor’s degree/diploma with at least 2 quantitative subjects.

Skills, knowledge & abilities

• Excellent communication skills.
• Good organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Proven decision-making ability.
• Strong business acumen and merchant thinking
• Strong business acumen and merchant thinking.
• Good organizational and interpersonal skills.
• Excellent communication skills.
• Proven decision-making ability.

Superbalist is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Applicants from previously disadvantaged groups and people with disabilities will be given preference.