Responsibilities:

Inventory Planning & Management

• Inventory focused analysis to help drive sales and optimize inventory (e.g. seasonality, generating forecast for new products, analysis of over-stocked lines)
• Cost benefit analysis on bulk/volume purchases
• Annalise and action stock levels by store and category or department to ensure sufficient stock availability at branches.
• Annalise and action stock holdings to ensure minimum over/under stock situations and never out of stock situations on Top Sellers
• Annalise and action stock ageing and reduce provisions on inventory
•  Annalise and action discontinued stock to optimise stock holding

Product development & vendor management

• Maintain ranges through annual range review ensuring development of complete ranges and phasing out of non-performing stock
• Analyse store and product clustering by means of gap analysis and range reviews
• Investigate new listings and make recommendations
• Develop knowledge of products and product ranges
• Staying well abreast of key inventory related information and effective preparation for meetings with key stakeholders

Optimize marketing and merchandizing

• Assist in maximising visibility and return on investment through integrative marketing plans/ campaigns. 
• Assist in analysing sales trends and buying habits in order to develop a category and marketing strategy (EDLP, KVI etc.)
• Assist stores/ merchandising team in maintaining high standard visual merchandise placement through providing Planograms
• Assist in marketing and roll out plans for new shop openings and events. 

Administration

• Monthly clean up and maintenance of master data
• Provide reports and requested information to management as needed.
• Action the following stock reports:
• PD/V1 Material per month se cat with SOH -0  (Maintain V1 levels with SOH = 0 below 3%, by branch and category)
• SOH=0 and below ROP with no outstanding order
• MC.9 (Monitor and analyze excessive growth/ decline in stock levels)

Requirements:

• Relevant tertiary qualification
• 3 – 5 years’ experience in inventory management