Merchandise Planning Executive

Summary

The Merchandise Planning Executive supports the execution of efficient planograms to drive sales and improve space productivity across store clusters. This role ensures planograms are accurate, timely, and aligned with merchandising principles and category strategies.

Role Description

• Ensure planograms are always up to date
• Ensure timely planogram roll out and modules update
• Set Critical Path for Team Members on various projects
• Gather and share insights to support opportunities for space planning improvements
• Review sales analysis and space performance of categories to create efficiently optimised planograms to maximise sales and profit
• Ensure consistency of product range across all store’s clusters
• Ensure Assortment IDs are tagged to the correct site as to avoid store replenishment and scanning issues at checkout.
• Adhere to the general Merchandising Principles and guidelines (Sub-Category Flow, Good Better Best, Own Brand, Customer Decision Tree, Alignment of Need States, Product Status, Days Of Supply, Case On Shelf)
• Manage the annual Space, Range, Display (SRD) process, reporting accurately on the efficiency of all in store space and building the annual plans to reflect latest performance, consumer needs and category growth plans
• Maintain accurate and up to date customer decision trees for responsible categories ensuring that they are updated regularly
• Manage the overall range review process in line with the category teams ensuring that all range reviews are signed off in a robust manner and all planograms are built and signed off

About You

• A relevant Diploma qualification or higher
• Prior experience in supermarket grocery or retail is an added advantage
• Able to work well across multiple internal stakeholders, strong communication skills
• Proficient in MS Office, especially MS Excel
• Able to work in fast-paced environment