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Assistant Merchandise Planner
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会社概要
At Ralph Lauren, we unite and inspire the communities within our company as well as those in which we serve by amplifying voices and perspectives to create a culture of belonging, ensuring inclusion, and fairness for all. We foster a culture of inclusion through: Talent, Education & Communication, Employee Groups and Celebration.
Position Overview
As Assistant Merchandise Planner within the Merchandising Planning team at Ralph Lauren you will provide integral operational support to ensure we achieve our departmental KPIs, supporting with analysis, intake, linecards and markdowns to achieve this. The successful candidate with have strong analytical skills, excellent communication skills and a passion for retail and merchandise planning.
必須義務＆責任範囲
Operation/Financial
- Update reports on a weekly, monthly, and ad hoc basis.
- Attends and prepares for weekly trade meetings, over time being able to formulate and deliver a trade message independently.
- Provides accurate data to support analysis.
- Owns the departments line cards, which are size level forecasting documents in excel. Forecasting sales units and the inventory. To ensure it is never out of stock.
- Systematically updates seasonal recodes which are the styles we carry from one season to the next.
- Owns department stock delivery schedule and communicates updates including early deliveries or delays.
- Assists with seasonal markdowns & communication to stores.
- Manages intake on WSSIs with scope to own a category or gender.
- Monitor and ensure full size availability of best sellers, Continuity lines and seasonal products in stores in order to maximise sell through.
- Supports development of any direct reports.
Commercial Awareness
- Participate in regular store visits, collating store reports prior and assisting in creating follow up presentations.
- To undertake competitor visits on a regular basis and feedback any relevant points.
Training and development
- To adopt a positive and proactive approach to their own training and development as well as that of their peers.
- Proactively promotes improvements to working practices and systems.
- Participates in company initiatives as appropriate.
Communications & Partnerships
- Creates and maintains strong working relationships within cross-functional teams: Buying, Branch Merchandising and the retail store teams.
- Liaises with Assortment Planning and Buying partners to review and assist in the formation of the seasonal lessons learnt. Influencing future Buys, using analysis and historical data to ensure commercial decisions are made.
- Communicate initial release and replenishment strategies within cross functional team
- Participate in cross functional meetings, contributing input on distribution strategies
Experience, Skills & Knowledge
· Commercial and Analytical.
· Attention to detail.
· Able to work on own initiative and be pro-active.
· Able to demonstrates logical analysis and problem-solving skills.
· Able to organize, prioritise tasks and manages time well in order to meet deadlines
· Demonstrates good listening, written and oral communication skills, effectively and clearly communicates.
· Able to build and maintain productive relationships within team environment.
· Microsoft application skills, particularly Excel.
· Show ability or aptitude in retail mathematics and able to learn technical applications quickly.
· Able to demonstrate resilience and remain positive during challenging period
