Category Planner

Job Responsibilities:

Inventory Management:

• Ensure that the stock level of the category is within the prescribed limits as per company norms
• Monitor the stock cover to maintain optimum stock turns
• Tweak forward month buying based on the projected closing stock of the current and forward months
• Allocation & replenishment to stores as per capacity & customer profile.
• Stock rotation in market & Stock monitoring at the PH

Category Planning

• Prepare option plan
• Create buy plan to breakup monthly targets and distribute the buying for the month accordingly
• Prepare OTB Plan
• Propose the biannual discount list
• Prepare & do periodic review of yearly ISQ projections
• Prepare monthly ISQ plan - value wise, quantity wise
• Send monthly buy plan and product presentation to the markets to enable them to do store stock planning

Dispatch Planning

• DL template planning with markets
• Upload DL on Fabconnect as per DL Upload request
• Enable special requests from store/ customer request through stock rotation or from the product warehouse

MIS & Analysis

• Review costings style wise to ensure targeted GP & flag negative deviations from the targeted GP
• Generate department wise sales report, hierarchy wise sales and stock report, current month SKU wise sale report, ISQ stock out report, TR tracker report, Promotional trackers & provide insights
• Monitor store performance for the category

Job Specification:

• Years of Functional Experience: Min 2-3 years of relevant experience in retail industry
• Degree/Diploma: MFM NIFT / Pearl / MBA

Knowledge & Skills:

• Product Knowledge
• Markets & geographies
• Category Planning
• Retail Operations
• Inventory Management
• Commercial Acumen