Retail Store Planner - Abu Dhabi

• Stock quality & Sales follow up:

  • Analyze, identify and closely follow up the key selling items by Métier at different levels: SKUs, model, category and implement relevant KPI (MOS, Sell trough)
  • Arrange weekly meetings with In-store Sales floor manager to align on the product offer in store
  • Apply the product strategy defined with Store team & Retail Merchandising
  • Proactively advise and promote slow moving items to the Sales team
  • Proactively monitor and flag product shortage or risk of shortage and propose alternatives
    

• Stock month coverage:

  • Define, follow, and optimize the right stock coverage for the store to ensure the realization of the store’s sales target and align the guidelines from the subsidiary retail merchandising team
    

• Implement relevant KPIs:

  • MOS, Sell trough, Stock ageing and ensuring rotation of products from remote warehouse
  • Share weekly KPIs and strategy with the store manager

In-store space capacity monitoring:

• Storage capacity:
  • Monitor closely the storage capacity to avoid saturation of the in-store stockroom and to enhance the store sales strategy (by available stockrooms and by métiers)
  • Help to organize the store stockrooms (front & back & remote) based on the product offer strategy defined by the Floor Manager

• Where (and when) applicable
  • Min / Max settings CEGID/COCKPIT: Implement with in-store floor managers the min / max CEGID/COCKPIT settings with the store remote stockroom, based on the product offer, the sales strategy and the storage capacity. Follow up and revise them on regular basis
    

• Special events: Anticipate and adapt the product call based on peak seasons (Fashion weeks, Year-end celebrations), store commercial events (Trunk shows and Métiers Discoveries), new products’ launches, and support phase out process, in collaboration with the Merchandising team
  

• Follow up with LDC your product call and control your replenishment plan vs reality: strong communication to share priorities & needs
  

Relations with other Group actors

• Work closely with Store management team to reach KPIs

• Collaborate closely with local Logistic team & Operations team

• Collaborate closely with RM teams (RM & Planning): alert for stock shortage and request of stock rebalancing
  

• Optimum stock levels across all metiers in store

• Efficient rotation of stock to maximum sell through rates

• Achievement of the monthly/annual sales budget

• Increased product awareness of the store team

• Strong collaboration levels with all stores and corporate actors

• Build store partnership and community with the HQ Planning team
  

• At least 2 years’ experience in Retail back office or Planning/Supply Chain

• Good understanding of supply chain basic concepts

• Good knowledge of forecasts methodologies and tools

• Excellent behavioral and communication skills, leadership, ability to work with sales teams and liaise with corporate teams

• Very organized, rigorous, and reliable

• Excellent analytical skills

• Business and service-oriented, proactive to propose improvements and support other team members.

• Proficient with Excel (PIVOT, Xlookup functions), Word, Power point