Sr Specialist Ecom Merchandise PlanningPurpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:
This role is responsible for maximizing the sales, profitability, and brand equity of eCommerce through the management and execution of:
- Build, enhance, and create merchandise reports to support the Sr. Manager of Merchandising on Intake, Sales & Product Information as well as own country/cluster planning responsibilities.
- In-season article reporting and trading to ensure category and product performance meets expectations via a suite of KPIs and tools.
Key Responsibilities:
- Facilitate & provide documentation and information for monthly inventory meeting for inventory flow planning.
- Provide insights & updates through reporting suite to eCommerce (eCom) Emerging Markets Team and the Local Country/Cluster buying teams to build, deliver & interpret regular (Daily / weekly / monthly / quarterly / seasonal) category business & trading updates.
- Manage and monitor sales plans vs actuals to make recommendations and provide insights on article level performance to enact business decisions.
- Understand the data requirements needed to build tools and reports to support the team and connect with analytics on request for advancement of merchandising processes and insights.
- Track, analyze, interpret and provide recommendations based on/for: market benchmarks and KPIs on productivity and sell thru, Improvement of Range Yield/Range Profitability, and other key merchandising KPIs.
- Forecast planning on business unit level, net sales, margin and ASP.
- Update category reports- To influence in-season & end of season markdown strategy.
- Product mix according to Country, Season, Target customer, share of categories, gender mix, etc.
- Provide insight and suggestion for eCommerce channels in reconciliation with the Hub Merchandisers & Country/Cluster buying teams.
- Support the enhancement of all product planning systems and tools to suit world class buying practice across SEA.
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