Job Description:

Location: Bangalore

Experience: 4-9years

Education: Graduate and above

Preferred skills: Buying, OTB Planning

Key Result Areas

Merchandise assortment plan for all stores

• Create appropriate buying plan for assigned category as per Sales targets
• Set ARP targets for product categories
• Create Option plan and conduct depth analysis
• Formulate Stock to Sale plan for a season – EOM / BOM
• OTB calculation
• Create appropriate buying plan
• Creating/Buying Flash Line as per the current trends for A+ Stores

Monthly Target setting for each category

• Breaking up of Monthly targets into product category
• Target Vs achievement
• Merchandise plan report
• Product performance Lk2Lk

Inventory Mgmt

• Ensure Ideal stock cover for each product category is maintained
• Dormancy within specified norms
• Pullback within specified norms 
• Sell thru reports on Excel for Week1, week2 sales
• Photo Sell Through Report

Stock & sale plan

• Product category wise dispatch plan
• Planned Vs actual
• Allocation plan for each store as per dispatch plan and size wise analysis
• Tracking allocation vs actual dispatches

Market Intelligence

• New launches (competition product / window / schemes)
• Competition Mapping
• Training (Merchandise, Product & VM related)
• Estimation of market, product & design trends

Core Business Contribution

• Monitoring to enhance the category contribution % of total business of LTL basis
• Identifying new designs to be added to this category

Range Architecture to Product

• Providing Range architecture for a specific season to product and design. With Category wise option grid with learning from past seasons and from market forecasting

Integrated Go To Market (IGTM)

• Planning for a successful IGTM story along with VM and design
• Dessing up one key store for the look
• Roll – out across stores

Integration with space planning

• Working in close co-ordination with retail planner to closely monitor returns from space allocated

Qualifications:

Minimum Experience Level:
5-9 Years

Report to:
General Manager