KEY RESPONSIBILITIES
1. Market and Métier Knowledge
- Undertake monthly/quarterly study of your Métiers and ad hoc analyses to understand performance, quantitative and qualitative
- Build action plans in close collaboration with the stores
- Work closely with stores to analyse customer feedback (understanding of trends and client needs) to define a relevant product offer and share with the Métiers
- Regular store visits and time spent instore
2. Buying
- Define the OTB (Open-To-Buy) for stores in line within the strategy of the subsidiary and Europe and with the stock objectives set for the current year
- Split Leather commitment and quotas among the stores
- Propose a buying strategy and support the stores in their freedom of buying to ensure a unique but coherent offer that will answer to their customers’ needs and enhance the store identities, with a good balance between novelties and bestsellers
- Prepare easy to use tools for stores to guide them during podium and preview
- Consolidate pre and post podium buying reports
- Monitor and control reorders in line with budgeted stock levels
- Lead the PSI forecast twice per year, proposing adjustments based on sales per store
- Allocate Push Offers among the stores
3. Product and Stock Animation
- Define local strategy to develop each metier in the country and achieve sales ambitions
- Optimise every opportunity to move stock throughout the business reducing the financial impact of depreciating goods
4. Supply Management
- Work closely with Customer Service in Paris to ensure timely delivery and adapt the priorities if necessary for the business
- Share reports on stock levels and delivery updates with the stores
- Coordinate and ensure timely destocking
- Work closely with Chief Financial Officer to align buying and destocking forecasts and optimise stock levels across the country
5. Stock Management
- Ensure optimal flow of deliveries to the stores
- Coordinate the logistics and legal aspects of deliveries, with Expedition Dept in Paris and any relevant Customs authorities locally;
- Liaise with Logistics Manager to ensure all shipment discrepancies are escalated to the appropriate departments and external parties in a timely manner and make sure the reception processes in store are respected.
COMPETENCIES
- Merchandise experience within a retail environment
- Highly analytical with exceptional organizational, communication and presentation skills
- Commercially aware with a passion for our products
- Advance knowledge of Microsoft Office, particularly Microsoft Excel
- Be influential, structured and pedagogic in their approach
- Detailed in their analyses but synthetic and action-focused when sharing with others
- Team player, with great interpersonal skills