Role Summary The Merchandise Planning is responsible for driving merchandise financial planning, inventory productivity, and stock optimization across categories to achieve business sales, margin, sell-through, and stock turn objectives. The role will lead Open-to-Buy (OTB) planning, range architecture, monthly inward planning, pricing and markdown strategies, stock cover management, and in-season trading actions to ensure healthy inventory levels, product freshness, and profitable growth.

Merchandise Financial Planning & OTB Management

- Derive seasonal and annual Open-to-Buy (OTB) plans aligned with business budgets, sales forecasts, and inventory targets.
- Monitor and drive OTB utilization across categories, ensuring disciplined buying decisions and inventory investments.
- Develop bottom-up merchandise plans by category, sub-category, and option level to achieve business objectives.
- Build and manage monthly, quarterly, and seasonal financial plans covering Sales, Stock, Intake, Sell Through, and Margin.
- Partner with Buying teams to align assortment investments with planned sales and profitability expectations.

Range Architecture & Assortment Planning

- Define and govern category-wise range architecture including option counts, price ladders, depth, width, and assortment mix.
- Ensure balanced assortment planning across fashion, core, seasonal, and basic products.
- Collaborate with Buying and Design teams to optimize option productivity and assortment effectiveness.
- Drive option rationalization based on sales performance, productivity, and customer demand insights.

Intake Planning & Good Inwards Management

- Create bottom-up monthly intake plans to support sales forecasts and stock objectives.




- Monitor planned versus actual good inwards and take corrective actions to manage inventory flow.
- Coordinate with Buying and Supply Chain teams to ensure timely product availability and launch readiness.
- Recommend preponement or postponement of deliveries based on business performance and stock cover analysis.

Pricing & MRP Finalization

- Support category pricing strategy and MRP finalization in alignment with margin expectations and market competitiveness.
- Evaluate price elasticity and category performance to optimize pricing architecture.
- Ensure consistency between planned margins, product costs, and retail pricing.

Inventory Productivity & Cover Management

- Monitor stock cover and cover days across categories, stores, and warehouses.
- Drive healthy stock size management by maintaining optimal inventory levels while minimizing stock-outs and overstock situations.
- Ensure inventory freshness through proactive stock rotation, replenishment, and liquidation strategies.
- Manage store-wise and warehouse-wise stock balancing to improve inventory productivity.

Sales & Performance Analytics

- Conduct detailed sales analysis to identify business trends, opportunities, and risks.
- Monitor sell-through performance at category, option, and store levels.




- Analyze product productivity and recommend actions to improve sales and inventory efficiency.
- Publish regular performance dashboards and business reviews for stakeholders.

Positive Seller & Slow Seller Management

- Identify and scale winning products through replenishment and stock redistribution.
- Monitor poor-performing options and recommend corrective actions including display interventions, transfers, markdowns, and liquidation plans.
- Drive inventory actions to improve option productivity and category sell-through.

Markdown & End-of-Season Management

- Develop and execute markdown strategies to maximize gross margin recovery while ensuring timely stock liquidation.
- Partner with Finance and Buying teams to finalize markdown budgets and EOSS plans.
- Evaluate markdown effectiveness and improve future planning based on learnings.
- Lead end-of-season stock consolidation and liquidation initiatives.

Allocation, Replenishment & Stock Deployment

- Drive pre-season allocation planning based on store grading, capacity, sales potential, and assortment strategy.
- Monitor replenishment effectiveness and ensure availability of key selling products.
- Optimize inventory deployment across stores and distribution centers to improve stock productivity.

Cross Functional Collaboration

- Work closely with Buying, Design, Supply Chain, Operations, Finance, and Retail teams to drive business objectives.
- Provide actionable insights from planning and performance reviews to improve future assortment and buying decisions.
- Participate in market and store visits to understand customer behaviour, competition, and emerging trends.

📌 Easybuy-Merchandise Planning-Corporate Office Easy Buy-Executive (Karnataka)
🏢 Landmark Group
📍 Karnataka