MAP Active Asia Hiring! Full Time Merchandise Planning Manager in Selangor - Ricebowl

Job Summary

Responsible for planning and controlling the product range to achieve good margin, healthy inventory flow, and stock levels.

Roles and Responsibilities

• Prepare brand annual MPLAN aligned with company financial directions
• Forecast sales, inventory, and buying at article level through rolling forecast to ensure availability of best-selling products
• Analyse historical sales by attributes and size to provide accurate recommendations to the Merchandising Team on variety, depth, and incoming flow
• Review Buying Plan to ensure proper depth and breadth
• Participate in Weekly Brand Meeting to discuss and help resolve Merchandising Team issues
• Prepare ad hoc analysis related to Merchandising
• Monitor incoming goods (GR) and review allocation to ensure timely arrival and correct door distribution, by checking initial allocation plans and reviewing inventory level, sales, aging stock, and inventory by discount bucket
• Identify potential brand issues, evaluate SKU performance, in-season sell-through, and margin
• Train Junior Merchandise Planning staff to improve their planning and forecasting skills

Minimum Job Requirements

• Minimum Bachelor's degree from a reputable university
• 5 years of related experience, preferably in Retail / Merchandising / Planning
• Good analytical skills
• Comfortable working with large volumes of data
• Good Excel skills
• Familiar with SQL
• Proficient in English
• Good interpersonal skills