Merchandise Planning Assistant - Level Shoes

INSPIRE | EXHILARATE | DELIGHT For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East. The Group, in its endeavour to excel as a hybrid retailer, has reinforced its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in the luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories. More recently, the Group expanded its expertise into new categories of luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear. Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart. Be it constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online and through mobile apps, each touch point leads to delighting the customer. Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, whose cohesive efforts have resulted in the Group being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work. To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse”, which is not just an innovation hub, but also an incubator space and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses in the region and internationally. This is just one of the several initiatives taken by the Group to reinvent itself, catalysed by forward thinking and future-proofing. The Group has also been embedding sustainability at the core of its business strategy with a clear commitment towards people, partners and the planet, and by being a member of the United Nations Global Compact Community and signatory of the Women's Empowerment Principles. What you'll be doing Our Merchandise Planning Assistant will be responsible for providing administrative support to the merchandising team including running reports and analysing sales and stock figures whilst working closely across the merchandise team. He/she will be a key support to the merchandising team to maximize commercial opportunities through the effective management of inventory, driving sales through improved availability and forecasting and reducing mark down and maximizing profit. Key Responsibilities:

• Support in providing weekly, monthly and yearly sales reporting and summary of key performance indicators relating to sales, sell through, stock, profit, and markdown versus budget and last year.
• Support with maintaining key files (Master Orders, OTB templates) that drive the planning and trading process throughout the season.
• Providing crucial support to the Merchandising team taking an active role by analysing sales trends, monitoring deliveries, and maintaining stock levels.
• Work with the Senior Coordinators, Merchandisers and Buyers to control deliveries, allocations, and replenishment.
• Responsible for creating Brand Business Reviews for Buying and CEO appointments.
• Responsible for ensuring that the markdown master file is aligned to the markdown calendar and integral data is kept updated with the brands carryover and markdown lists.
• Responsible for running a daily sales report communicating vital sales and stock information vs budget and LY.
• Support the Merchandising team in identifying products for promotional and markdown activities.
• Support the Merchandising team during the planning and OTB process including Basics forecasting and EOS lessons learnt.
• Support the Merchandising and Buying team with pre market analysis packs.
• Work closely with the Merchandisers to manage data integrity such as seasonality and pricing.
• Key contact for merchandise reporting and all aspects of merchandising processes and system use.
• Supporting with any other ad hoc administration required within the merchandising function.

What you’ll need to succeed

• Fluent in written and spoken English
• Strong analytical skills with a focus on problem-solving and decision-making
• Expertise in performance management and continuous improvement initiatives
• Skilled in planning, forecasting and budgeting processes
• Retail Supply Chain Management
• Stakeholder Management
• Supply Chain Management Applications
• Knowledge of excel and MS office
• Passionate about product, strong market, and brand awareness
• Exceptionally organized, methodical, and efficient
• Time keeping & ability to meet stringent deadlines
• Pro-active in their approach to tasks and development

What we can offer you With us, you will turn your aspirations into reality. We will help shape your journey through enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility. Our Group offers diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day. We recognise the value that you bring, and we strive to provide a competitive benefits package which includes health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies as well as exclusive employee discounts. We Invite All Applicants to Apply It Takes Diversity Of Thought, Culture, Background, Differing Abilities and Perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate and Delight our customers. At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity. We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future. We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin or disability status. #J-18808-Ljbffr