Supply Planner

About Lifestyle:

Lifestyle is a leading retail destination, specialising in Beauty, Fashion, and Home products. Established in 1998, Lifestyle has consistently delivered a distinctive shopping experience, and an extensive selection of brands and products across colour cosmetics, perfumes, personal care, fashion accessories, home essentials, and home fragrance. With its chain of more than 160 retail stores spread across the GCC, coupled with a rapidly growing E-commerce platform, Lifestyle has established itself as an omnichannel destination-of-choice for Beauty and Fashion serving more than 4 million customers every year.

Objective:

The job holder will be responsible for Location Planning Process, Trading Commerciality and Customer across the territory allocated.

Key Responsibilities:

Location Planning Process

• Plan KPI’s by location in the Oracle location planning tool
• Re-forecast and make suggestions for promotions or actions needed to be taken to improve trade
• Tailoring assortments to local trading conditions
• Coordinate new launches.
• Potentializing sales and profit opportunities in stores in your region
• Managing store grading and clustering
• Work with space planning to ensure the store option counts are accurate
• Ensure that the pre-scheduling meets the options and range plans at the store level
• Coordinating departmental allocations
• Support category teams in optimising the flow of product through DC
• Managing replenishment groups and parameters
• Maximising full price sell-through
• Minimising store terminal stock
• Maximise "sale" sell-through, including creation and management of “sale” grading
• Attending area meetings and Range Reviews, providing feedback

Trading Commerciality

• Analyse reports and make recommendations regarding stock distribution using forecast sales trends
• Prepare weekly overview of Store Performance, identifying 'fashion" priorities and proposed activity to address risks or opportunities, spotting trends to provide feedback to B&M

Customer

• Liaison with and visit stores within your regions to identify local opportunities
• Compiling and reacting to feedback from retail
• Working closely with Area Managers to build up profiles of stores to help tailor stock packages to meet local customers

Key Requirements:

• Alteast 2 to 4 years of experience as a Location Planner
• Project management skills
• Should be self-driven and willing to take initiatives on his/her own
• Should have excellent communication skills to work with cross functional teams
• Must be good with Excel, data analysis and MIS reporting