Assistant Merchandise Planner for Outdoor

As the Assistant Merchandise Planner for Outdoor, you'll support the planning and trading of the Seasonal Events category, helping to maximise sales, profit, and stock efficiency. Working in close partnership with the Buying team, you will contribute to the development and delivery of customer-focused product ranges, using data and insight to support key commercial decisions. You will be responsible for

• Assisting in the departmental range building process (including collating and analysing data for strategy packs and range sign offs) to deliver sales, stock and profit targets.
• Contribute to strategy and trade meetings with information based on fact and intuition.
• Ensuring systems accurately reflect the range build for launch in line with critical path.
• Supporting the department range launch critical path (including post launch reviews).
• Feeding into the promotion and events trade plan (including managing nomination process in line with budget).
• Updating and maintaining all ranging/ merchandising systems/ trackers.
• Ensuring that our pricing is administered within agreed timescales, adhering to pricing policy.
• Identifying and managing exit of lines from the business including escalating impact on all KPI's.
• Realising and creating awareness of the departmental WSSI forecasting (at sub group level to small department level), highlighting risks and opportunities and managing KPI's Vs budget.
• Preparing Monday Trade Analysis reports and undertaking follow up actions.
• Reviewing performance Vs. all KPI's highlighting risks, opportunities and proposing actions.
• Following our Business Code of Conduct and always acting with integrity and due diligence.
You will need
• Report preparation experience.
• Range Building.
• Data analysis and numeracy skills.
• MS Office (esp Excel) skills.
  
  Annual bonus scheme of up to 10% of base salary.
• Holiday starting at 25 days plus a personal day (plus Bank holidays).
• 26 weeks maternity and adoption leave (12 months service required at the qualifying date) at full pay, followed by 13 weeks of Statutory Maternity Pay or Statutory Adoption Pay, we also offer 6 weeks fully paid paternity leave.
• Free 24/7 virtual GP service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP) for you and your family, free access to a range of experts to support your mental wellbeing.