Senior Merchandise Planner

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Detail information about job Senior Merchandise Planner. Terms and conditions vacancy

• Work with our awesome Buying team!
• Are you analytical, commercial & forward-thinking?
• Be part of creating & shaping a new function

• Work with our awesome Buying team!
• We're on the hunt for an analytical, commercial & forward-thinking Merchandise Planner who can make a real difference
• Be part of creating & shaping a new function

Welcome to Fantastic Furniture

78 stores nationally.

700+ passionate team members.

A relentless determination to deliver an amazing customer experience.

We're all about making life FANTASTIC for our customers, our people and our shareholders.

For our teams, this means they can be themselves at work, get the support they need to develop great careers and most importantly have FUN!

We're an iconic Aussie brand part of a bigger, global family of brands including Freedom, Snooze, Plush, Bay Leather Republic, OMF and more! We're passionate about providing opportunities for our people across the board to grow and progress.  

This is your opportunity to join us and create a fantastic, world-class shopping experience for our customers. You will work closely with our Buying and Inventory Planning teams to ensure that our Products strategy is brought to life successfully - the right products, right prices, right time, and in the right stores - to delight our customers and maximise sales.

Your remit

• Ensure that product stock and sales are in line with business expectations, based on historical and forecast data
• Developing a 360 process on all key marketing events by analysing history, planning our sale events, in conjunction with key stakeholders, to ensure timeous and appropriate range assortments are purchased. 
• Conducting Post-mortem analysis on our two sale events to gain insight and key learnings
• Monitor manage and adjust the implementation of the Products Strategy including, Gross Margins, Markdowns, Stock Levels, Weeks of Cover, and Stock Turns
• Working with the Buyers, Marketing, Store Design, Retail Operations, and Visual Merchandising to successfully introduce new products and manage products through their lifecycle in the business
• Manage our Dynamic Low Pricing model including monitoring competitor products and adjusting prices through a product's lifecycle
• Introduce an assortment scorecard, facilitating the range-build process by understanding product performance and customer selection based on analysis of SKU / price / colour / form (design) and store performance

About YOU

• You work hard, but can have a laugh and don't take yourself too seriously!
• You have a successful track record in Merchandise Planning within a retail environment and enjoy implementing new processes
• Highly developed analytical capability to inform effective decision making
• Strong communication, negotiation and influencing skills
• Team player

What's on offer?

• Great culture, fun working environment, and access to training & development programs
• A supportive team environment where you are encouraged to grow and develop 
• Staff discounts on all our group retail brands
• Chullora location - convenient parking on-site
• Excellent salary package and benefits 
• Global career opportunities 

Interested or know someone who might be? We'd love to chat to you!