Footwear Planner

Responsible for the range and brand assortment planning for Tower Footwear with main focus on Online and Retail stores. In close collaboration with buying, you are seeking long -and short-term opportunities through closely monitoring sales performance, trends and are constantly up to date with our customer. You will be connecting qualitative and quantitative insights translating the budgets and forecasting into an excellent value proposition, equally driving sales, profitability, and value. The main objective of our Footwear planner is to have a deep understanding of our sales (demand) through each channel and plan inventory (supply) accordingly. To thrive within this role, you need to have a passion for footwear with deep range planning experience, a deep commercial understanding, be on top of the brands and trends and combine all that information with an analytical mindset and data analysis skills.

**Your Duties.**
- Taking an active lead in sales planning and supplying/collaborating with the buying team with market
- and sales insights and analysis culminating in a mutually agreed optimal buy budget for presentation to the board.
- Collaborating with Retail and Online teams follow up on sales. Collect, analyse, and respond to data driven opportunities
- Supply Online and Retail team’s assortment and inventory updates
- Creating, driving, and maintaining all Footwear Range Planning including setting and driving the merchandising role, structure and timetable including shaping processes and meeting agendas
- Monitoring, analysing, and responding to sales actuals on all Retail channels including identifying and acting on opportunities and aligning the short term and long-term forecasting, assortment and sales planning. Responsible for constant short
- and long-term inventory management, analysis and planning
- Constantly supply forecasting updates at key line level, planning and taking an active role in all order Forecasting Driving in-bound order prioritization to optimize inventory levels
- Manage Article creation and maintenance within the business, from creation to exit
- Daily, weekly, monthly sales monitoring, analysis and inventory management/ planning
- Conduct relevant qualitative and quantitative analysis’s including data, trend, customer, competitor and market
- Constantly updating other departments on relevant information and sharing reports, forecasts, insights, analysis material or other
- Manage the correct path with KPI creation and follow up
- Analyse and feedback on seasonal buys in a strategic and coherent recap
- Accountable for the sales budgets across the footwear buys and ensure the tracking, maintaining of the budgets on a weekly basis ensuring they are managed effectively
- Develop relationships with cross functional peers across Marketing, Retail, Buying and Online departments
- Partner with the Pricing team to understand price-bands across the business and assist in trading the business effectively
- Control of inward stock, ensuring brand deliveries and intakes are on time, planned and processed through the business at the correct time, maximising sales

**Could it be you?**

Our new Footwear Planner is someone who has 5+ years of Footwear Merchandise/Range Planning experience within the footwear fashion industry; preferably across all genders and experience from working with Mid to high level brands. We also see you as experienced and confident in:

- Analysis (you like to work in excel and Power BI with sales and performance numbers)
- Qualitative analysis/market trends
- Driving sales (sales KPIs, goals, changes in percentages/sales)
- Value proposition
- Problem Solving
- Stakeholder management
- Continuous improvements and process analysis
- Precise and exact stock control ability

In this recruitment, the individual’s personality and adaptive mindset is key. You have a passion for numbers (greener then red in colour) and love to live in Excel and Power Bi platforms. The age-old analogy of right stock in the right place at the right time still rings true in our business and a mantra you live by.