About This Role
This senior planner role at JD Sports focuses on projecting future sales, optimizing planning processes, and managing range assortments and replenishment. The position involves implementing distribution strategies and providing guidance to team members, suiting a candidate with strong analytical skills and experience in sports or branded goods retail.
Responsibilities
- Manage range assortments and replenishment, ensuring availability of key lines
- Drive product efficiencies and key measures including sales, markdown, inventory and sales margin
- Develop category strategic, tactical, and operational plans to achieve set targets
- Develop and manage range assortment at store level in conjunction with the buyer
- Manage OTB allowance both in-season and forward budgets
- Attend all appointments relating to product launches and selection throughout the year as specified
- Analyze and review previous week sales with the buying team and propose and drive actions for the week
- Prepare and present performance in trade meetings
- Report on performance, initiatives and operational plans to management periodically (weekly, monthly, seasonally, and annually)
- Foster collaboration across buying, planning, marketing, VM and operations functions
- Be influential in implementing change to achieve company goals/objectives
- Drive allocation and grading strategy with allocator
- Manage inventory delivery
- Develop markdown proposals and drive corrective actions
- Conduct regular store visits
Requirements
- Diploma, Graduate Degree, or Post Graduate Degree
- At least 5 years of proven working experience as a Planner (sports/branded goods advantageous)
- Sound understanding of the retail cycle and planning process
- Good working knowledge of current computer software packages including Microsoft Office
- High degree of numeracy and an analytical, detailed, and strategic approach to work
- Strong business acumen and merchant thinking
- Excellent planning, organizational and interpersonal skills
- Proven decision-making ability
- Excellent time management skills
- Good communication skills
- Good judgement and problem-solving skills
- Negotiation Skills
Important Details
- Preference will be given but not limited to candidates from designated groups in terms of the Employment Equity Act
About the Company
TFG is an internationally diversified retail portfolio of 34 specialty lifestyle and apparel brands. Its vision is to create the most remarkable omnichannel experiences for its customers, inspiring them to live their best lives. TFG is a purpose-led business that offers growth opportunities across its diverse brands.
