Senior Merch Planner

6 months ago

Walsall, United Kingdom Poundland&Dealz Full time

**About the opportunity**

We are recruiting for a Senior Merchandise Planner to join our Trading team based at our Customer Support Centre in Walsall. The role has a flexible-working location, allowing you to work from home and the office.

As a Senior Merchandise Planner, you will report to our Merchandise Planning Manager and be responsible for planning, controlling, and delivering the merchandise for the store estate and line management of two direct reports.

As a Senior Merchandise Planner, you will be working closely with the wider merchandising and buying team to ensure stock targets are achieved and availability is managed effectively to deliver the company sales and stock budgets.

**What you'll be doing...**

As a Senior Merchandise Planner, your duties will consist of:

- Critical path management as well as any promotional offers
- Ensuring the flow of inbound and outbound stock replenishment is managed effectively
- Monitoring and reforecasting the WSSI tool to ensure that it reflects the most accurate data and presenting this on a monthly basis to the Merchandise Planning Manager
- Preparing and delivering reports and insights on the category weekly sales and stock
- Leading and developing a team, ensuring they are engaged and working within a challenging and fun environment, with regular reviews of SMART objectives

**What you'll need...**
- Ideally, a health and beauty or seasonal background, with exposure to multiple range reviews throughout a 12-month period
- A minimum of five years Merchandising experience
- A Financial, Fashion or Merchandising degree is desirable
- Previous people management experience
- Intermediate Excel Skills - advanced is desirable
- Line flow management
- Prior knowledge of WSSI (weekly Stock & Sales Inventory)
- Proven analytical skills with excellent communication, both written and verbal.

**What we can offer...**
- Competitive salary
- Potential to earn bonus
- Car allowance
- Personal private medical care cover
- 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 - 33 days and ability to purchase additional holiday
- Pension

**About us...**

You have come to the right place if you want to be part of our success story and have a bright future.

It all started in Burton-upon-Trent in 1990 with our first store. We now have over 900 stores and around 18,500 talented colleagues in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, offering each and every one of our seven million wonderful customers every day amazing value.

We offer thousands of quality products in-store with over 1,000 well-known brands. The majority are just £1, but as a multi price retailer, customers can enjoy competitively priced products from fresh, frozen and ambient food to health and beauty, gardening, clothing, and so much more.

Retail Week nominated us as Value Discounter of the Year in 2019, reflecting our team’s relentless focus on offering customers simplicity and amazing value.

In 2011 Dealz was born. The first stores opened in Blanchardstown and Portlaoise in Ireland. We continue to trade and have expanded rapidly in Ireland, Spain and Poland. Customers enjoy our winning formula of great value top brands and our extensive range, including many local products. We are incredibly proud to have been recognised as one of the Top 100 companies to work for in Ireland in 2022.

Our incredibly popular fashion brand PEP&CO is available in over 500 stores. It offers great value fashion for the whole family. It was nominated in the 2019 Retail Week Awards as Private Label of The Year.

We have recently opened seven brand new stores, including our large format stores and revamped 55 stores. We are also expanding our fresh range to another 30 stores over the coming months. Our continued success is driven by offering our customers high-quality products at ultra-low prices each and every day.

**Benefits**:

- Company pension
- On-site parking

Schedule:

- Monday to Friday

Supplemental pay types:

- Bonus scheme

**Experience**:

- Customer service: 1 year (preferred)
- Administrative experience: 1 year (preferred)

**Language**:

- English (preferred)

Licence/Certification:

- Driving Licence (preferred)

Ability to Commute:

- Walsall (required)

Ability to Relocate:

- Walsall: Relocate before starting work (required)

Work Location: In person

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