Retail Centre Planning Specialist

1 week ago

Letchworth, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom Stapleton's Full time
Job Title: Retail Centre Planning Assistant

About the Role

We are seeking a highly skilled and experienced Retail Centre Planning Assistant to join our team at Stapleton's. As a key member of our retail planning team, you will be responsible for ensuring that products are accurately placed in the right retail centre, at the right time, and in the correct quantities.

Key Responsibilities

  • Develop, maintain, and review centre stock profiles for 800 retail centres, in line with business requirements, such as commercial targets, promotions, brand switches, and business streams.
  • Manage new projects related to retail centre stock profile development, championing new initiatives and communicating with divisional directors and operations managers.
  • Manage the BWO system, resolving problems, analyzing systems, and developing testing to improve performance.
  • Resolve queries from retail centres on profiles, capacity, replenishment, and other related matters.
  • Implement strategies for the launch of new brands at centres.
  • Develop and provide weekly and monthly profiling performance reviews, designing KPI communications for management teams.
  • Maximize retail estate space in terms of profitability, range, price, width, and depth of stock available, providing reports to illustrate market coverage and share.
  • Review and take corrective action on surplus stock, slow stock, and aging stock.
  • Monitor and review all local orders outside of profiles, working with demand planners to understand variances and mitigate through FC amendments, profile amendments, and education of centre staff.
  • Work closely with logistics to manage outbound volume in line with business requirements, ensuring logistics constraints are correct for changing demand volumes.
  • Work closely with the inbound team to ensure retail availability is maximized through availability and net stock calculations.
  • Create contingency orders if the system fails to produce one.
  • Plan seasonal and promotional stock at retail centres.
  • Monitor slow sellers and take action to remove from profiles, reduce prices, or return stock as necessary.
  • Update and review system override user tables.
  • Produce business reports, such as aged stock reports and RC availability reports.
  • Identify production and supply difficulties, dealing with any problems or delays by switching to alternate parts.
  • Coach, train, and supervise junior staff.

About You

  • We seek applications from individuals who are passionate about driving change and pioneering new ideas and approaches.
  • We seek applicants who are skilled communicators, able to liaise effectively and build strong relationships with a wide range of people, from senior management to centre staff.
  • High attention to detail and accuracy is essential.
  • Ability to analyze system data and transform it into effective communication.
  • Ability to develop mutually beneficial internal and external relationships with key contacts.
  • Confident in manual planning processes and computer software use, particularly in MS Excel and demand planning software.
  • High level of numeracy, with the ability to understand trends and patterns within numbers and seasonal demands, and strong analytical skills.
  • Adept at managing large amounts of detailed data.
  • Excellent time management and prioritization skills.
  • Ability to be flexible and adapt to changing circumstances and procedures quickly to ensure smooth running of vital business operations.
  • Ability to manage projects.
  • Supervisory experience is desirable to effectively coach retail planning assistants.
  • Excellent working knowledge of Excel.
  • Tyre industry knowledge or consumer goods retail experience is required.
  • You must be strong enough to remain calm and diplomatic under pressure.
  • This role requires quick thinking to spot trends, evaluate large amounts of data, and make sound decisions, with deadlines to meet.

Benefits

We offer a career path with development opportunities in a stable working environment. Benefits include performance-related bonuses, pension, life assurance, annual holidays increasing with service, Employee Assistance Programme (EAP), generous discount and cashback scheme with major retailers, and staff discounts with ETEL Group automotive companies.

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