Job title: Planner
Company: Al-Futtaim
Job description: Overview of the roleManages OTB, stock, sales and margin at detailed level to maximise sales and minimise inventory levels.What you will doDelivering Top Line Performance and Profitability
- Sets overall guidelines for margin by product area and ensures processes are established to analyse margin deviation.
- Forecast weekly sales and margin by store and region highlighting risks and opportunities
- Manages markdown and promotional strategies to ensure margin is maintained to achieve bottom line
- Manages and owns Good/ Better/ Best pricing strategies
- Drives the Business Planning process for the brand to arrive at the budgeted sales & Margin (BP)
- Sales, Margin achieved versus BP and LE
- Forecast accuracy (+/- 10%)
- Gross Margin %, Markdown %
Manages OTB, inventory levels and stock turn
- Oversee full OTB process, sell through and markdown policy. Analytical and proactively manages sales, inventory and margin through effective range planning
- Provides accurate OTB plans for each category maximising sell through
- Forecasts intakes in line with OTB to give an accurate picture of weekly stockholding by brand.
- Manages and creates category planning
- Manages store clustering and distribution of stock to stores
- Creates, manages and maintains MSSI/ WSSI reports
- Manages monthly intake and timely deliveries in accordance with the brand and Market
- Ensures all markets have optimum inventory levels at any given point of time
- Manages the stock profile to ensure that aged inventory is kept to a minimum
- Availability, Forward Cover
- Ageing %, Ageing liability and provision
- Closing stock, cost and units
Team Collaboration
- Works in conjunction with buying team to develop effective, profitable assortment range
- Collaborates with Financial Planner to forecast budgets and latest estimates by region and store
- Builds and manages the range plans in conjunction with buying ensuring OTB is controlled
- Works closely with other departments including Buying, Retail, VM, Operations and Wholesale to ensure the product offer is optimised at all times and sales opportunities are maximised
- Collaborate with Marketing, Operations and the Brand teams to confirm the commercial calendar for all brands, which would include all key promotions in line with the markdown strategy
- Regular meetings with key stake holders to drive results
- Provide support and direction to the allocators / admin assistants and groom them to become future managers in the organization
- Provide periodic updates to the relevant stakeholders and conduct recurrent stakeholder meetings to ensure effective relationship and align with their expectation
SAP Inventory Management & Reporting
- Ensure that SAP is maintained and is regularly and is operating effectively from an inventory point of view
- Develop and publish reports which will give accurate and reliable information to the management and facilitate decision making
- Support expansion by providing sales estimates and ensuring the availability of a proper stock package
- Understand gaps in the existing inventory control process & take corrective action to address these gaps in a timely manor
- Assist with the development and enforcement of robust inventory/ stock policies, procedures (SOPs) and ensure that the replenishment system in SAP is operating efficientl
Expected salary:
Location: Dubai
Job date: Sat, 23 Aug 2025 07:07:36 GMT
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