Senior Merchandise Planner
Harvey Nichols Doha WLL
Total years of experience :13 years, 8 Months
•Prepare season wise OTB plan at the brand level and discuss with a buyer for finalization.
•Attend fashion trade shows along with a buyer and then have showroom appointments for
final merchandise selection.
•Order management by keeping track of orders and pushing relevant data in the system.
•Vendor management by following up from placing orders until GRN.
•Define brand wise mark up and retail prices to get the planned margins.
•Responsible for circulating daily, weekly, and monthly trading reports to management.
•Analyze the fast sellers at the brand level and suggest replenishment to a buyer.
•Organize & Conduct cycle counts/stock counts for inventory corrections.
•Liaison with buyers, accountants, the store team, and warehouse team.
•Plan and implement markdowns at the end of the season.
•Maintaining awareness of competitors performance and their merchandise portfolio.
•Key member for testing and implementation of Microsoft Dynamics (AX) and Power BI.
•Set replenishment parameters for each store thus right amount of quantity can be replenished
at the right time and right location.
•Publish stock cover reports every week to identify category level stock gaps.
•Aging stock (1 year and above) to be maintained at 1-4% via effective markdown strategy.
•Define the stock holding capacity of each store based on available fixture counts and deliver
stocks accordingly.
•Initial allocations to be planned in a way that 40% of merchandise is available for
replenishment.
•In season merchandise management-Maintain proper mix of new vs old season stocks.
•Stock movement within stores for higher sell thru's.
•Frequent visit to store and regional distribution center.
•Reduce logistic cost by Initiating local buying for home and toys items and this resulted in a
margin jump of 11%.
•Kept aging stock at 1% during FY 2015-16 which was lowest in the history of max.
•Presentation of new season merchandise to channel partners (Pantaloons and Central).
•Collate orders and initial base stock allocations for all channel stores.
•Push item level details in SAP for weekly auto replenishment.
•Allocation of refurbished merchandise to brand factory stores.
•Postseason merchandise analytics presentation to management.
•Plan seasonal buying budgets followed by assortment details and product mix decisions.
•Attend line presentations and select merchandise for franchisee stores based on geography.
•Lead the launch of Curve id & color denim and delivered an LFL growth of 23%.
•Achieving store sales budgets and coordinate daily customer service operations.
•Motivate and train staffs about products, cross Selling, and upselling.
•Monitor retail-operating cost, budgets, and resources.
MBA
PG Diploma in International Business
Bachelor in Business Management
