Duties & Responsibilities
Data Analysis: Analyze inventory data and sales data to make business decisions on stock replenishments, consolidations and buying.
Category Management: Own assigned categories, identify trends, and provide data-driven recommendations to improve category profitability and growth.
Products Ownership and Merchandise Planning: Manage the creation, distribution, movement and sales of new and existing products across stores.
Information dissemination: Provision of information on stock required for each season, management of different intake by department, class, and age range.
Track and manage must-have assortments across assigned categories.
Performance Analysis and reporting: Analyze performance of categories, products and vendors, sharing insights on growth.
Track daily/weekly/monthly performance against target and forecast and provides weekly Sales Summary
Price Management: Oversee the costing of products and maintain the accurate pricing of all products.
Develops promotional and markdown strategy and ensure effective execution in season.
Collaborate with cross-functional teams to ensure smooth merchandise flow from production, warehouse to stores, using analytics to enhance operational efficiency and support supply chain decisions. Vendor management: Liaise with foreign and local vendors, conclude on orders and prices and follow through till the products gets to the warehouse.
Manage buying activities: Monitor OTB (Open-to-Buy) gaps and close them, while liaising with vendors to ensure timely procurement and alignment with business needs.
Dashboards: Develop and maintain dashboards that guide business strategies and product lifecycle campaigns.
Campaign calendar: Own and oversee the execution of seasonal and product campaigns
Reports: Preparing business reports which include and not limited to the following: (Sell Through report, Stock cover report, Store visit report, Range plan, Product life cycle report, Inventory ageing report, Missed sales report)
Requirements
Minimum Qualification
Bachelor's Degree or HND in any other related field.
5-7 years of relevant experience.
Knowledge of retail fashion business: Deep understanding of premium retail and fashion retail.
Software Proficiency: Mastery of Excel (advanced formulas, pivot tables), presentation tools, and ERPs systems especially Odoo
Data Analysis & Modeling: Master of analysis and visualization tools like SQL, Power BI