Position: Junior Associate Planner

Responsibilities:

• Drive category sales, cash margin and inventory management through profitable decision making
• Monitor performance against plan, taking appropriate action to maximize sales and margins
• Identify and evaluate sales and gross margin opportunities at department level
• Communicate trading issues and forecasts with proposed actions to senior management and Buying team
• Evaluate market and customer information together with historical data and forward trends to develop the merchandise plans

Requirements:

• University Degree in any discipline
• 3-5 years’ experience in planning function of large scale retail operations
• Analytical skills and in depth knowledge of the industry
• Able to communicate effectively at Management Level