Merchandise Planner

THE ROLE:

• Developing plans for new product launches, seasonal plans, and marketing campaigns
• Managing relationships with production team to ensure they meet deadlines and deliver quality products on time
• Manage product flow in the shoes and bags category; determining order quantities and generating purchase orders for new and replenishment orders.
• Develop sales plans for all channels (boutiques, e-commerce, wholesale agents).
• Close communication to coordinate logistics, ensuring on-time shipments for al channels.
• Work closely with buyers, import/export managers and logistics teams to ensure the delivery and distribution of goods.
• Creating merchandising plans for stores based on target demographics and customer preferences
• Recommending changes to in-store displays or product placements.
• Researching and identifying new possible wholesale and retail doors.
• Reviewing sales reports to determine which products are not selling well and might need to be discontinued
• Product range bries and competitor analysis , product training doc and execute, all product details & fit info etc for website/market place
• Collection analysis,costing/margins/rrps Product range briefs and competitor analsyis, product training doc and execute, all product details & fit info etc for website/marketplaces

SKILLS:

• Merchandise Planning
• Product Assortment Planning
• Trend Analysis. Merchandising
• Forecasting
• Inventory Management
• Retail/Wholesale Stock Swaps
• Margin agreements