Merchandise Planner
Paris group
Total years of experience :11 years, 2 Months
Range building and trend analysis
Developing merchandise strategies
Initial Allocation and distribution
Pricing and Markdown strategy
Brand positioning
Sales forecasting, OTB management
Merchandise analysis
E-com stock distribution
Stock vs sales reporting
Retail ERP and Excel proficient
Post Seasonal Review
Asst.Merchandise planner
Performing strategic plans that aligned financial and product opportunities by department, class and key items.
Partnering with Buyer to develop and execute assortment plans targeting specific, season, store clusters and brands in line with OTB
Use past performance to make projections, make recommendations for promotional markdowns
Initiating allocation across 200 plus stores based on store clustering and LFL
Ensured proper inventory levels and allocation for all key items and coordinated timely flow of merchandise with PARX Allocation Specialist.
Weekly con-call to all territories to analyse and solve issues related to supply chain and stock as well as opportunities.
Store visit and analysing visual appearance to check whether minimum display and self capacity of product meeting criteria.
Tweeting ROS across category and store level on special events and promotions.
Providing product information to franchise stake holders and allocating merchandise.
Brand mapping and calculating apportion to buy based on brand performance
Recommended strategies based on analysis to adjust product assortment and size ratios.
Forecasting upcoming season based on LFL and in season performance.
• Processing purchase orders-Apparels
• Negotiating commercially with suppliers
• Approving design, print, FIT, PP and TOP samples after QC analysis.
• Supplier coordination in shipping documents.
• Handling Retail Merchandising Application(ORACLE-RMS)
• Assisting buyer in range presentaion.
• Barcodes processing and approval.
• Hangtag and wash care approval
• Analysis of the sales thru reports weekly on the stocks on the floor
• In addition updating the knowledge about market trends
♦ Cash Receipts, Deposits & Payments
♦ Cash balancing
♦ Handling the Banking System
♦ Vault custodian
♦ Filing of End of day (EOD) Reports
♦ Handling Non-Cash transactions like DD/MC/TC, Fund transfer etc
♦ Wire transfer of foreign currencies
♦ EOD balancing of foreign currencies
♦ Register updating on EOD Cash position, Instruments Issued etc
♦ Responsible for high quality service, customer relationship management, Queue Management & Branch Audit & Compliance
♦ Cross selling financial products over the counter
♦ High attention to customer service orientation
• Worked as a junior sales officer in monthly magazine Cine Mantra, Chennai from May 2012 to May 2013.
➢ Interacting with clients
➢ Strategic selling activity
➢ Processing the documents
➢ Reporting to the top management
➢ Cross selling
➢ Database updating.
➢ Managing office lobby operations
Modules includes: Business Communication International Marketing Advertisement Management Human Resource Management Quantitative Aptitude etc.,