Burgundy Brand Collective - Retail Planner

Responsibilities:

- Planning product ranges and preparing orders based on sales and stock plans, across multiple outlets and the brand's online platforms.

- Forecasting stock requirement based on historic sales.

- Analysing trends and reviewing performance of products and categories.

- Assessing vendor queries for onboarding and suggesting product/category additions based on the performance of categories.

- Forecasting sales and optimizing sales volume and profitability of designated product areas.

- Planning budgets and presenting sales forecasts and figures for new ranges.

- Preparing the buying calendar by month wise phasing.

- Controlling stock levels based on forecasts for the season and managing optimum levels of inventory at the store with swift and efficient movement, rebalancing of stocks across stores.

- Analysing every aspect of bestsellers (for example, the bestselling price points and ranges) and ensuring that each reach their full potential.

- Maintaining awareness of competitors' performance and providing with monthly feedback.

- Monitoring slow sellers and taking action to reduce prices or set promotions as necessary.

- Gathering information on customers' reactions to products and providing corrective feedback and action plans to management and store teams.

- Analysing the previous season's sales performance and reporting on the current season's lines.

- Making financial presentations to management every month along with sell throughs for the season.

- Working with procurement team to understand timelines for distribution of stock, vendor's order requirements, shelf life and other terms and using this information to plan optimum stock level

Candidate Qualifications & Skill Requirements:

- A numerate degree i.e., Maths, Statistics, Finance, Business Studies.

- 4+ years' experience in retail and/or merchandising.

- Well- organized with a structured approach to buy planning.

- Strong excel skills and capable at building buy and sell-through budgets.

- Strong communicator with a high level of maturity.

Job Location: Lower Parel.

Reporting Manager: GM - Merchandise & Planning.

About us:

Burgundy Brand Collective is one of India's fastest-growing specialty retail companies with stores in 9 cities. The company partners with best-in-class international luxury brands to offer Indians a window to the finest food and lifestyle themes from across the world. Our brand portfolio includes Royce' Chocolate- a premium Japanese confectionery brand, Onitsuka Tiger - a leading Japanese fashion and lifestyle brand, Provenance Gifts - a marketplace for curated gourmet gifts, Ligne Roset - a luxury French contemporary furniture brand and Jacadi Paris - a luxury French children's wear brand. The plan is to aggressively (yet astutely) scale out a portfolio of international brands pan-India.