Trainee Location Planner – Durban needed at Mr Price Group
Job title : Trainee Location Planner – Durban
Job Location : KwaZulu-Natal, Durban
Deadline : April 18, 2024
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RESPONSIBILITIES
On the Job Learning:
Apply learnt knowledge & skills by:
- Demonstrating awareness of the factors which influence the way we perform in current trade how to manage opportunities & risks accordingly.
- Demonstrating how to optimize stock in the light of the critical path & achievement of KPI’s.
- Participating in the building of an assortment which is informed by current trade, post mortem, & the seasonal strategy.
- Demonstrating how to forecast a financial plan, highlight variances for sales, orders & stock going forward.
Current Trade:
- Extract & analyze store KPI’s by sub department season.
- Contribute towards compiling a draft report highlighting all issues that have impacted performance.
- Assist the location planner in respect of re-forecasting in-season store sales to adjust for the current trade variances.
- Convert the store sales plan to a stock plan in OTS (Open to Ship) in order to adjust SAS (Strategic Allocation System) allocations.
Post Mortem:
- Complete a monthly zero-based plan (ZBP) in order to conclude the previous months missed opportunities.
- Complete store grading in APS (Assortment Planning System) in order to provide the merchant planning team with unit buy recommendations which will inform their strategy.
Building an Assortment:
- Participate in building the assortment plan in collaboration with the buying & planning team.
- Assist with creating profiles, store grading & development of unit buy recommendations for the greater team.
- Maintain the profiles & grading in the relevant system (APS).
- Extract & analyze reports on the assortment for the location planner.
Product Allocation/Stock Allocation:
- Adjust & balance the forward allocations checking that required units per store are met.
- Monitor units being accrued for new store openings & report on variances.
- Finalize allocations
- Assist with store consolidations.
- Identify problems with store size service levels & store cover ratio, assist team with action plan.
QUALIFICATIONS
Degree / Diploma in :
- BCOM : General
- Business Science
- Accounting
- Mathematics
- Statistics
- Economics
- Finance
- Strategic Management
- Supply Chain
- Retail
- Logistics
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