Merchandise Planner

2 months ago


St Jacobs, Canada Home Hardware Stores Limited Full time

Home Hardware has an exciting opportunity for a
**Merchandise**
**Planner** to join our Inventory Planning and Replenishment team. In this role, you will report on the health of the business by leading and/or participating in merchandise inventory forecasts and plans, communicating financial results and business decisions, and developing corrective action plans as required.

**What you'll do**:

- Use a result focused approach to inventory planning and forecasting for your area of responsibility, with a view to achieving annual sales, inventory turnover, and margin plans.
- Collaborate with Merchants and the Replenishment and Operations teams to support Category Management objectives. Collaborate with peers to ensure consistency of information, share best practices, and develop systems knowledge.
- Partner with the Buying and Replenishment teams to build inventory financial plans and forecasts.
- Analyze, forecast, and monitor results compared to KPI expectations and define corrective action where needed.
- Present findings to Managers, Senior Planners, and cross-functional Team Members.
- Identify untapped profit potential and gaps to ensure we meet targets.
- Seek opportunities for overall business improvement.
- Review vendor inventory productivity to determine plans of action and to optimize profitability.
- Oversee seasonal clearance cadence to address unproductive merchandise with the least impact on Gross margin.

**What we're looking for**:

- A college diploma in Business, Finance, or Supply Chain and 2-4 years Merchandise Planning experience or 2 years of Replenishment, Finance, or Supply Chain experience.
- Communication skills, both written and verbal.
- Ability to prioritize and manage a busy workload.
- Mathematical skills.
- Demonstrated leadership and influencing skills with the ability to get things done.
- Excellent interpersonal skills; a team player who is able to act as both a leader and an individual contributor.
- Is adaptable and comfortable with ambiguity and change.
- Drive to seek improvement, personally, professionally, and for the Team.
- Accountability.

We thank all applicants for their interest, however only those selected for an interview will be contacted.

HP



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