Retail Planner, Van Heusen

Key Result Areas Supporting Actions

Inventory Management

• Preparation of stock and sales plan in the beginning of the year.
• Update and review of the plan periodically.
• Managing age and dormancy of stock by planning Instore clearance sales.
• Pull back non-moving merchandise
  
  

MIS & product movement analysis

• Analyze movement of various sub brands, style wise, size wise etc.
• Identify of non-moving merchandise and check for trends.
• Ensuring ideal merchandise mix for every store.
  
  

Sales

• Ensure the overall sales plan is met by periodic monitoring and taking corrective action with respect to space & product mix
• Timely action on product performance to ensure discount is under budget. Monitor actual vs outflow on weekly basis to keep a track.
• Margin delivery by managing product performance and controlling markdowns
• Plan right store inventory depending on the demand and supply to ensure overall retail inventory turn is in line with the budget
  
  

Store Layout Planning

• Creating the shopping zones in each store with the help of planograms and ensuring maximum returns from each square feet .
• Monitoring and analyzing the performance of each of these zones
• Maintaining and updating planograms as and when required
  
  

Sell Through

• Plan right demand, get on time delivery and timely dispatch to ensure the overall lifecycle sell through
• Periodic monitoring of inventory with norm to ensure post EOSS return of season buy ins in line with the budget
  
  

Norms & optimization

• Planning correct norms for store keeping the right DOC & sales potential of store