Overview

Position Title: Forecasting & Stock Planner

Company: The Very Group

Location: Liverpool, England, United Kingdom

Job Description:

This role will support the Category Manager in forecast and stock plans associated to the development and delivery of a commercial range within the Women’s Sport department. This role has the aim of delivering stock efficiency, maximum availability and the management of the customer delivery promise.

Responsibilities:

  • Ownership and governance of the stock plan.
  • To build strong relationships with suppliers managing delivery performance and internally with distribution centres 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 etc

Requirements:

  • 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. Experience within a similar role is a prerequisite.
  • 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.

About The Very Group

We’ve been reinventing shopping experiences for over a century. Technology has played a huge part in that, helping us transition from catalogues’ to pureplay online retail, but we’re not the finished article.