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POSITION OBJECTIVE:

Responsible for Planning, Product Selection and Buying, In-season Product Reorders, OTB management, Content development, Promotion, Sales & Stock performance, Vendor Relations, Logistic Co-ordination and Merchandising. Responsible for reviewing stock to sales ratios, responding to changing sales trends, and ensuring plan sales, plan markups, and plan markdowns are achieved by brands.

Key Responsibility:

Review of Season performance- Achievement VS Plan, Sell-In Analysis, Sell through Analysis, Category Performance and Product Performance
In Season Reports & Analysis and support in action plans (Sell-through analysis/Inventory holding/Liquidation plan/at once sales push from existing inventory for Carry over and NPIs/Pricing)
Business Strategy: Developing of Category business strategy depending on consumer research reports and Gap Analysis. Define a strategic framework and roadmap to monetize brand partnerships in a collaborative and sustainable fashion.
Category Establishment: Category establishment focusing a developing an Apt Category Mix, Supplier Mix and Brand Mix.
Financial Plan: Develop and Drive the periodic financial Plan for the category. Constant review on the same.
Manage and develop all brand partnerships with a wide array of external brands and drive marketing programs, promotions, shop-in-shops, digital campaigns, etc. Develop special shop concepts, page layouts, and navigation to support category directives and strategies.
Internal & External Collaboration: Collaborate with UX team to improve consumer shopping experience through improved product information, layout, and widget/features. Constantly suggesting improvements in navigation and classification.
Maximizes online sales performance (i.e., conversion rate, average order value, units per transaction), by making continuous improvements in customer experience ratings, cross-sell strategies, sell-thru, and promotion/special deal execution.
Paving the Future Category growth: Identifying opportunities on the website to get more entry points for the category
Pursue cost reduction measures through centralized bulk buying and/ or selecting appropriate vendor mix, scanning the environment for benchmarks and constantly improving the purchase process
Ensure achievement of budget and LFL growth for assigned department.
Managing inventory levels of assigned department at the store.
Ensure desired first price sell-thru for assigned department for each season.
Assist planning manager in preparation of buying budget and assortment plan for assigned department.
Ensure the realized margin target for the department are met.
Ensure adequate mix of merchandise at the stores as per the set guidelines.
Ensure all CORE products availability at all times.
Launching of new products and categories at the stores and ensure timely replenishment.
Regularly perform inter-store consolidations to maximize sell-thru.
Coordination and liaising with retail team and buying team.
Weekly preparation and review of reports with buying and retail team and plan out action plan to rectify concern areas.
Flag any sort of inventory concern to planning manager and concerned buying department head so that the situation can be handled efficiently.

Job Details

Posted Date:	2021-06-29
Job Location:	Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Job Role:	Management
Company Industry:	Retail & Wholesale

Preferred Candidate

Career Level:	Mid Career
Gender:	Female
Nationality:	United Arab Emirates; Bahrain; Djibouti; Algeria; Egypt; Iraq; Jordan; Comoros; Kuwait; Lebanon; Libya; Morocco; Mauritania; Oman; Palestine; Qatar; Saudi Arabia; Sudan; Somalia; Syria; Tunisia; Yemen

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