Retail Planner(Buying and Planning) at BIBA in Gurugram Haryana

October 22, 2024
125000 - 150000 / month
Application deadline closed.

Job Description

Purpose of the Job:

The Retail Planner, will be responsible for tracking inventory and bringing in new products based on predicted needs for customers. They’re a liaison between the customer, supply chain, marketing , buying department, ensuring what the customer wants is available.

 

Key Result Areas for the Incumbent:

Process Responsibilities:

  • Ensuring effective Inventory management (optimum stock utilization, stock return)
  • Review and analyze, articulate, and solve complex problems related to stock and sales and concepts to make effective business decisions
  • Review and effectively deal with fast / slow lines, new ranges and end of ranges and implement necessary action
  • Ensuring roll-out of new store openings and timely dispatches
  • Monitoring Category wise performance against plan and highlighting insights in a timely manner.

 

People Management Responsibilities:

  • Work with retail team to provide details of order fulfillment to the respective buyer/distributor/ EBOs/ MBOs.
  • Work with ZMs /RMs and Key account Managers for day to day grievances
  • Monitor Targets vs. Achievements, stock allocations and dispatches
  • Ensuring advance planning for Marketing Events at store/Promotions

 

Financial Responsibilities: None

Key Behavioral competencies required to perform this role:

Essential:

1. Analytical Skills

2. Communication

3. Customer Focus

4. People Management & Development

 

Desirable:

1. Initiative

2. Raising Productivity/ Planning

3. Organizing, Leadership skills

 

Key Technical competencies required to perform this role:

Essential:

1. Expertise in MS Office

2. Exceptional analytical skills

3. Inventory Management

4. Results orientation

5. Customer orientation

 

Desirable

1. Negotiations Skills

2. Planning

3. Organizing

4. Co-coordinating & Monitoring skills

5. Good leadership skills

 

Key Performance Indicators:

  • Monitoring Inventory at the DC
  • Targets vs. Achievements
  • Stock availability as per the set target.
  • Executing Marketing Events at store/Promotions/EOSS

 

The candidate would have to interact and manage the following stakeholders

  • Work closely with the leaderships of biba & the channel partner to analyze the stock effeciency
  • Work closely with supply chain & Logistic partners to ensure timely delivery of stock

 

In order to be considered for the role the ideal candidate should also have:

  • Leadership skills / Communication skills / Negotiation skills/ commercial Acumen/ process management
  • Product merchendising background is preferred