Junior Merchandise Planner

3 weeks ago

Walsall, United Kingdom Poundland Full time

**About the opportunity** We are currently recruiting for a Junior Merchandise Planner to join our commercial team based at CSC in Walsall.

As the Junior Merchandise Planner you be responsible for planning, controlling and monitoring the purchase, intake and distribution of merchandise across the store estate, working across multi-seasons / countries for imported goods, in order to maximisesales and margin within assigned departments of responsibility.

This is a developmental role whereby the individual will be expected to grow their knowledge, understanding and capability over the following areas.

Working closely with the Buying function and within their assigned merchandising team, core areas of responsibility are as follows:

- Achievement of KPI’s - Sales, Margin and Stock
- Achieve stock targets set
- Manage availability targets

**What you'll be doing...** **As a Junior Merchandise Planneryou will be responsible for**:

- Preparation and delivery of management information for imported stock
- Trading and management of sales, stock and clearance in season
- Analysis of historical and in season performance and be proactive in interpreting, communicating and acting on results
- Providing in depth analysis on any initiatives, and measure impact
- Ensure correct level of stock of active lines
- Develop range and Open to Buy plans
- Monitor, update and report critical path progress throughout the effective life of a product to identify issues and risks and take appropriate action
- Ensure stock is maintained at an optimum level by working on re-phasing and recommending cancellation, re-buy, delivering ‘on time’ availability.

**What you'll need...** As a Junior Merchandise Planner, you will need:

- Minimum 2/4 years’ experience of Merchandising ideally in allocation and replenishment)
- Good verbal and written communication skills
- Ability to influence
- Good Excel Skills
- Numeracy based degree level qualification

**What we can offer...**:

- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Free on-site car park
- Onsite coffee lounge
- Discount Card - 10% discount on most purchases in store including PEP&CO
- Family Friendly Benefits
- Loyal Service Awards
- My Staff Shop - exclusive discount portal
- Apprenticeships & Career Development
- Life Assurance Cover
- Health & Wellbeing - employee assistance programme to support you
- Holiday Allowance - increasing by one day per year (up to 33 days), and ability to purchase additional holiday
- Pension

**About us...** Since opening our first store in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990, Poundland, has built a network of over 850 stores in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering top brands and great quality own brand products that provide customers with amazing value everyday

Poundland offers thousands of quality products in store with over 1,000 well-known brands in 17 shopping categories including food and drink, health and beauty, household, gardening, DIY, pet, stationery, books, DVDs and toys.We are now on a journey froma single price to a simple price point retailer.

Now part of Pepco Group with over 2,500 stores across Europe, you will see Poundland also trades internationally in the Republic of Ireland through its Dealz brand.Dealz has a growing store base in both Poland and Spain.

Within the UK Poundland has also rolled out its fashion brand PEP&CO to approximately 300 of our larger stores. PEP&CO, launched in 2015 as a stand-alone brand, offers customers a full range of women’s, men’s and kids’ fashion and is now bringing new styleto Poundland with simple low pricing on family fashion that’s hard to find on local high streets.

PEP&CO was also nominated in the 2019 Retail Week Awards as Private Label of The Year.

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