Merchandising Planner

**Description**:
Key areas of responsibility:
Ownership of category forecasting and demand planning model, creating, and maintaining appropriate trackers and planners for full visibility of range make-up and performance.

Establish systematic methods and tools to monitor and analyse stock-to-sale ratio and sales trend data to develop forecasts by product category, line, brand, and locations.

Manage the category range and promotional planning critical paths to ensure key deadlines are met.

Working with the buying manger & suppliers to confirm capacity requirements and order management critical path.

Provide weekly, seasonal, and ad hoc analysis of range and promotional performance.

Incorporate financial reporting and budget requirements into merchandise plans and recommendations.

Develop and communicate quarterly demand planning to suppliers confirming capacity requirements and order management critical path.

Establish a promotional and seasonal forecasting model and plan for implementing merchandise changes.

Coordinate product forecasts with the buying manager and communicate to supply chain.

Ensure that clearance products are managed and sold through at an appropriate rate, taking price action when required.

Managing open to buy options and stock plans.

Inner/Outer management coordinated with sourcing strategy of buying manager.

**Key Skills & Experience**:
3 years experience in retail merchandising environment.

Solid knowledge of range and category management.

Project management skills to facilitate and track cross-functional tasks, spotting potential risks and managing them.

Data driven with good analytical and forecasting skills.

Strong stakeholder management skills in order to work across multiple teams.

Excellent communication and people skills.

**Management & Leadership Skills**:
Drives the performance and growth of their area.

Provides support for the long-term strategies of the organisation.

Prioritises and balances immediate tasks to deliver objectives and results.

Proactively and decisively challenges the norm to drive performance.

Collaborates with other areas to drive the best results.

Has positive presence and impact on their team.

Develops high performing team and direct reports.

Sets clear objectives for themselves and others.

**KPI's & Behaviours**:
**KPI's**
Inventory levels.

AWS cover.

Warehouse availability.

Store availability.

**Behaviours**
Always strives to do the right thing for colleagues and customers.

Treats everyone fairly.

Resilient and Optimistic.

Challenges the norm in the right way.

Obsessive about quality of work.

Collaborative and supportive.

Upholds and champions ProCook’ s Brand and Values.

**About ProCook**:
ProCook is the UK’s fastest growing quality cookware brand. We design beautiful, high spec cookware, kitchen knives, tableware and kitchen accessories, saving our customers up to 50% compared to other leading brands. We take great pride in going the extra mile to ensure our exclusive products are second to none.

We’re a multichannel retailer currently trading via 60 stores across the UK and a hugely successful eCommerce site. The company continues to grow and improve thanks to a dedicated, loyal and happy team of staff.

We are rightfully proud of our exceptional team who enable us to reach our goals - from creatives to developers, operational staff to front-line retail & call centre teams, we are committed to attracting and retaining the best talent.

By joining ProCook you’ll have a great opportunity to make a real contribution to this dynamic, forward-thinking business. It’s a lively, challenging organisation where everyone's input counts. We’ve created an environment that is conducive to collaboration, making ProCook a great place to work.

Our new, purpose-built Store Support Centre in the beautiful county of Gloucestershire boasts a free on-site gym, a fantastic subsidised restaurant, secure cycle storage and a social committee that organises regular events. We’re situated right next to the M5 between Bristol and Cheltenham, so Store Support Centre is easy to reach from a large catchment area.

ProCook is proud to be certified as a B Corp, joining a select but growing group of companies committed to using business as a force for good.