Buyer, Van Heusen

As a Merchandise Planner based in Bangalore with 4-9 years of experience, your primary responsibilities will include creating merchandise assortment plans for all stores. You will be expected to develop appropriate buying plans for the assigned category in alignment with sales targets and set ARP targets for product categories. Conducting depth analysis, creating option plans, and formulating Stock to Sale plans for each season will be crucial aspects of your role. Additionally, you will be responsible for OTB calculations and creating/buying Flash Line items based on current trends for A+ Stores. Monthly target setting for each category, breaking down targets into product categories, and tracking target versus achievement will be part of your routine tasks. Generating merchandise plan reports and analyzing product performance Lk2Lk will also be essential. In terms of inventory management, you will need to ensure that ideal stock cover for each product category is maintained, manage dormancy and pullback within specified norms, and provide sell-through reports on Excel for Week 1 and Week 2 sales. You will also need to prepare Photo Sell Through Reports. Developing stock and sale plans, devising product category-wise dispatch plans, and tracking planned versus actual allocations for each store are critical components of your job. You will be expected to create allocation plans based on dispatch plans and conduct size-wise analysis. Staying updated on market intelligence by monitoring new launches, conducting competition mapping, and estimating market, product, and design trends will be essential. Furthermore, you will play a key role in enhancing the category contribution percentage of the total business on an LTL basis and identifying new designs to be added. Providing range architecture for specific seasons to products and designs, creating category-wise option grids, and integrating with space planning will be key focus areas. Collaborating with retail planners to monitor returns from allocated space closely will also be part of your responsibilities. Overall, your role will involve meticulous planning, analysis, and integration to contribute effectively to the success of the merchandise and category planning functions within the organization.,