Category Planner

Job Responsibilities :

Inventory Management :

Ensure that the stock level of the category is within the prescribed limits as per company norms

Monitor the stock cover to maintain optimum stock turns

Tweak forward month buying based on the projected closing stock of the current and forward months

Allocation & replenishment to stores as per capacity & customer profile.

Stock rotation in market & Stock monitoring at the PH

Category Planning

Prepare option plan

Create buy plan to breakup monthly targets and distribute the buying for the month accordingly

Prepare OTB Plan

Propose the biannual discount list

Prepare & do periodic review of yearly ISQ projections

Prepare monthly ISQ plan - value wise, quantity wise

Send monthly buy plan and product presentation to the markets to enable them to do store stock planning

Dispatch Planning

DL template planning with markets

Upload DL on Fabconnect as per DL Upload request

Enable special requests from store / customer request through stock rotation or from the product warehouse

MIS & Analysis

Review costings style wise to ensure targeted GP & flag negative deviations from the targeted GP

Generate department wise sales report, hierarchy wise sales and stock report, current month SKU wise sale report, ISQ stock out report, TR tracker report, Promotional trackers & provide insights

Monitor store performance for the category

Job Specification :

Years of Functional Experience : Min 2-3 years of relevant experience in retail industry

Degree / Diploma : MFM NIFT / Pearl / MBA

Knowledge & Skills : Product Knowledge

Markets & geographies

Category Planning

Retail Operations

Inventory Management

Commercial Acumen