Forecasting Stock Planner - Sports - INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY

Forecasting Stock Planner - Sports - INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY
The Very Group, United Kingdom

Experience
1 Year
Salary
0 - 0
Job Type
Job Shift
Job Category
Traveling
No
Career Level
Telecommute
No
Qualification
As mentioned in job details
Total Vacancies
1 Job
Posted on
Mar 22, 2021
Last Date
Apr 22, 2021
Location(s)

Job Description

About us.

We’re The Very Group, home to Very.co.uk, Littlewoods.com and a team of 4,000 super-talented people. I am currently looking for a Forecasting amp; Stock Planner to work in our Sports team on a 6 month FTC.

THIS ROLE IS FOR INTERNAL APPLICANTS ONLY.


We’re the UK’s largest integrated digital retailer and financial services provider, and we’ve been helping customers say yes when it matters most for over 100 years. In that time, we’ve consistently reinvented our business to adapt to economic conditions and industry changes going from bricks, to clicks, to mobile.

But despite our passion for reinvention, we’ve never wavered from our purpose; to make good things easily accessible to more people. It means giving our customers the brands they love, an outstanding shopping experience and flexible ways to spread the cost.

We’ve continued to deliver for our customers throughout the Covid-19 outbreak and we’ve done it by transforming the way we work.

We’re fired up for the future and the next stage in our development. We’ll give customers access to more great brands for themselves and their families, a seamless shopping experience and even more control of their finances through innovation in flexible ways to pay.

Ready to reinvent? Get in touch.



This role will support the Category Manager in forecast and stock plans associated to the development and delivery of a commercial range within the Sports department.

The role will focus on all aspects of stock planning, formulating plans with the Category Manager and feeding into the Supply Chain and Commercial team. Analysing stock performance with an understanding of all impacting factors and reacting/adjusting plans and forecasts accordingly.

Ownership and governance of production planning, stock phasing and delivery schedule management will remain key as will managing the category’s open to buy dependent on sales performance and stock turn.

Relationship building is crucial, be that with suppliers in managing delivery performance and aligning inventory plans or Skygate where planning stock and intake volumes will also be a key part of the role.

Support the Category Manager with the development and maintenance of an effective trade plan to meet the needs of the budgeted KPI’s, recommending contingency as and when required to meet stock expectations.


KEY RESPONSIBILITIES:

  • Ownership and governance of the stock plan.
  • To build strong relationships with suppliers managing delivery performance and internally with Skygate to ensure trade plans are effective
  • Take high level category plan and create line level forecasts by week with the correct phasing
  • Support category manager with analysis and insight to develop range plan
  • Analyse performance vs. the stock plan and adjust forecasts accordingly
  • Works with the Category Manager when product performance varies to forecast to take the required action, e.g. through price, mark-down
  • Ownership of WSSI management
  • Ownership for stock holding/stock health and weeks cover
  • Oversee production planning, stock phasing and delivery schedule management
  • Align ongoing forecast iterations in response to performance and stock holding feeding into Supply Chain Manager to manage OTB accordingly
  • Support wider team with direction on creation of data led line level forecasts to support range sign off, maximise availability and stock efficiencies aligned to the forecast
  • Support Category Manager with analysis to inform strategy, range frameworks, including detailed analysis around the optimal range size, product mix, brand/own brand mix

Requirements

About you.

ONLY INTERNAL APPLICANTS WILL BE CONSIDERED.


We love what we do, and we know when we have great working relationships, we’re unbeatable. Passion and pride in your work and a natural desire to connect, collaborate and be a team player is a must.

We’re looking for someone who has sound commercial acumen, with an ability to demonstrate strong analytical capability and proven experience in a similar role.

To be effective in your role you’ll need to previous experience in supply chain management, strong negotiation and influencing skills and be open to challenge using data to inform opinion.

Benefits

Usual benefits will apply for internal applicants. A TARA uplift may be applied for the 6 month secondment if you are moving up a grade.
How to apply.

This is a fantastic opportunity so if you're interested to find out more please contact Kieran Grundy in the talent acquisition team at The Very Group or apply online.

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