job description
roles and responsibilities
merchandising/planning
• analyse sales and inventory data to inform and monitor buying decisions.
• report on sales trends to best identify opportunities to assist in proposing promotional campaigns.
• review the sales performance on a sku level and propose actions to drive & maximize sales.
• identify growth within brands/categories and work with the relevant teams/departments to help drive the productivity and ensure deadlines are met.
• review the product portfolio and manage the markdown activity site-wide whilst making sure the overall business margin is maintained.
• identify and review competitor pricing/marketing campaigns in the gcc to better plan in line with the tactical calendar.
• review the basket spends & customer behavior, communicating these to the wider team to better understand the customer profiles.
• analyse seasonal brand performance and flag/request markdown contribution/stock returns from suppliers to help drive sales whilst still maintaining a healthy margin.
• analyse and track the performance of new brands to better plan around sales trends/buys.
• assist the wider team in ad-hoc reporting.
• reviewing the pricing architecture and brand positioning.
• building and communicating trade insight reports based on wow, mom, yoy data.
• identify opportunities, reviewing availability and flagging missed opportunities within brands,
categories and price levels and flag these to the relevant departments.
trade/report
• prepare a weekly trade presentation reviewing & performance, sales trends,
promotional campaigns & tracking sales in line with the business targets for each department.
• assist in the ad-hoc reporting for each b&m team.
• communicate the performance on promotional campaigns to the wider teams, ensuring key lessons
learnt are recorded and readily available for future tactical planning.
• use google analytics to review & track the user journey, conversion rates and page perform