In this role, youll use your expertise to influence assortment strategies, drive profitability, and elevate the customer experience by ensuring the right stock reaches the right stores at exactly the right time.
This is a highvisibility role ideal for store planners who thrive on turning data into strategy, collaborating across teams, and making decisions that directly impact business performance.
Key Responsibilities
- Allocation of Stock daily based on business strategies, sales trends, and inventory levels, ensuring optimal assortments by location
- Analyzing store performance to optimize business decision making by analyzing sales performance and sell-through data to identify opportunities and risks, adjusting allocations to respond to customer demand
- Prepare and present weekly reporting on allocation performance, in-stocks, inventory health, and sales trends
- Reporting, data analysis and ability to suggest solutions
- Assist Planner in forecasting weekly replenishments for both stores and warehouse
- Create and recommended new-store allocation plans
- Assist in setting up and analyzing store grids
- Cross Functional Collaboration with Buying, Merchandise and Store Operations teams to align on inventory strategies and seasonal objectives
- Continuously seek ways to improve allocation processes and drive efficiencies
- Become a super user of the Merchandising allocating and replenishing system
- Mentor junior allocation analysts as needed
- Diploma/bachelors degree in business, supply chain, merchandising, or a related field (or equivalent experience)
- 35+ years of experience in retail store planning, allocation, or merchandise planning.
- Strong commercial mindset with proven ability to influence decision-making.
- Highly proficient in Excel and comfortable working with planning systems or analytical tools.
- Experience with planning systems.
- Excellent problemsolving, with a passion for translating data into clear actions.
- Strong communication and stakeholder management skills.
- Comfortable working in a fastpaced, dynamic retail environment.
- Detailoriented, organized, and confident presenting insights and recommendations.
CLOSING DATE:16/01/2026
Work Level
Mid-Level
Job Type
Permanent
Salary
Market Related
EE Position
Yes
Location
Tyger Valley
