About the Role: We're working with a fantastic fashion brand currently seeking an experienced Merchandise Planner to join their head office team. This is a brilliant opportunity for a commercially minded and analytically driven planner to play a pivotal role in driving sales, managing stock, and maximising profitability across their omni‑channel business.
Key Responsibilities
- Achieve and drive business goals and objectives including sales, inventory, and gross margin.
- Forecast store‑level budgets and build sales curves using historical data and planning metrics.
- Create Open to Buy (OTB) forecasts, summarising key insights and plans for the team.
- Determine OTB requirements by store and set up Seasonal Option Plans ahead of buying campaigns.
- Identify and recommend opportunities to improve sales performance through stock transfers, reorders, and trading actions.
- Define the topline Seasonal OTB strategy in collaboration with key stakeholders ahead of each seasonal campaign.
- Oversee sizing strategies for seasonal buys and continuity lines, adapting to market and customer trends.
- Recommend and implement stock rebalancing, transfer, and markdown strategies in partnership with the Allocator.
- Produce weekly and monthly trade reports, sales analysis, and trade commentary.
- Deliver in‑depth post‑season analysis to inform future product and inventory strategies.
- Provide ad‑hoc sales reporting and insights for senior management.
What We're Looking For
- Graduate calibre with 3+ years' experience in a merchandising planning role within fashion retail.
- Advanced Excel skills with the ability to manage and analyse large data sets.
- Strong quantitative, analytical, and commercial awareness.
- Clear and confident communicator, able to work with a variety of teams and stakeholders.
- Proactive, organised, and results‑focused, with the ability to manage multiple tasks and deadlines.
- Logical problem‑solver with a solutions‑driven, entrepreneurial mindset.
- Collaborative team player who can build strong relationships and mentor junior team members.
- Experience with BI reporting tools highly desirable.
- Resilient, positive, and able to remain composed under pressure.
- Passion for fashion product and a desire to enjoy your work while delivering results.
This is a full‑time, office‑based role (5 days a week in the London Head Office).
If you're a commercially savvy planner with a love for product and data, we'd love to hear from you!
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