Manager, Retail Planning, Retail (1y4m)

Purpose & Overall Relevance for the Organization:

This role supports retail business planning and analysis, focusing on sales, buying, and inventory. Key responsibilities include contributing to Open-to-Buy (OTB) planning, maintaining business metrics, and serving as a subject matter expert for retail reporting using Power BI. The position involves preparing performance scorecards, managing planning operations. This role provides crucial data analysis to support informed decision-making and drive retail business performance.

Key Responsibilities:

Business planning (30%)

• Sales & Product

-Understanding OTB history trend and suggest initial plan.

-Support overall process and communication for OTB plan for CS & FO

• Inventory

-Communication with WS, eCom & DP team for stock transfer plan to FO channel.

-Provide stock transfer visibility on monthly basis

-Update inventory data for stock simulation– actual NS, stock transfer volume, margin etc.

• IBP

-YTD, MTD actual NS update and tracking fill rate by category

-Support overall process and communication with Buying team if necessary.

Business Analysis (20%)

• Prepare and distribute weekly and monthly performance scorecards

• Maintains the focus on support and execution rather than decision-making

• Keeps industry-specific terms (MTD, QTD, YTD, F/A/H, P&L) which are likely familiar to applicants in this field

• Structures each point to begin with a strong verb, following best practices for job descriptions

• Emphasizes the analytical nature of the role without implying strategic decision-making responsibility

Data support & system management (25%)

• Being a SME for retail report, power BI

• Provide ad hoc data support

• Assist in maintaining data integrity and accuracy across retail systems

• Support the development and implementation of data visualization tools for retail metrics

Planning Operations (25%)

• Monitor and report on actual performance, providing timely General Business Support (GBS) for store payouts

• Manage monthly target uploads in Point of Sale (POS) systems

• Update and maintain store Key Performance Indicator (KPI) actuals

• Prepare and distribute monthly key Retail Financial reports to key stakeholders

Key Relationships:

Retail Sales, Retail Excellence, Retail Buying, Retail Store Operation, Demand planning, Customer service, Supply Chain Operation, MOP, Warehouse

Knowledge Skills and Abilities:

• Well identified key issues and draws conclusions by analyzing and comparing data from different sources of information.

• Consumer oriented, approachable, strong interpersonal communication skill

• Ability to work independently under little guidance on several projects simultaneously.

• Thinks and acts in a goal-oriented manner, prioritizes and completes tasks in order of importance.

• Excellent in MS-Office, Advanced proficiency in Microsoft Excel is a preferred

• Experience with Power BI is a preferred qualification

• Proficient written and spoken English.

Requisite Education and Experience / Minimum Qualifications:

• University degree or adequate education

• Minimum of 5 years of professional experience in one or more of the following areas: retails merchandising, buying, product or retail sales related field/ Business operations/ Planning/ Strategy-related roles

• Possess good sense of retail market situation