Trainee Location Planner | Mr Price

Mr Price Careers – Trainee Location Planner

The Trainee Location Planner role at Mr Price involves developing essential knowledge and skills under guidance to create astute pre-season and in-season store sales plans. The objective is to meet store requirements for the correct buy shape per store profile and to maximize store sales, clearance, and space utilization.

RESPONSIBILITIES

On-the-Job Learning:

• Apply acquired knowledge and skills by understanding the factors influencing current trade performance and managing opportunities and risks accordingly.
• Optimize stock considering the critical path and achievement of key performance indicators (KPIs).
• Contribute to building assortments informed by current trade, post-mortem analysis, and seasonal strategies.
• Forecast a financial plan and highlight variances for sales, orders, and stock.

Current Trade:

• Extract and analyze store KPIs by sub-department and season.
• Contribute to compiling a draft report highlighting issues impacting performance.
• Assist the location planner in re-forecasting in-season store sales to adjust for current trade variances.
• Convert store sales plans to stock plans in Open to Ship (OTS) for adjusting Strategic Allocation System (SAS) allocations.

Post Mortem:

• Complete a monthly zero-based plan (ZBP) to assess missed opportunities from the previous month.
• Conduct store grading in the Assortment Planning System (APS) to provide unit buy recommendations for the merchant planning team.

Building an Assortment:

• Participate in building assortment plans in collaboration with the buying and planning team.
• Assist in creating profiles, store grading, and developing unit buy recommendations.
• Maintain profiles and grading in the relevant system (APS).
• Extract and analyze reports on assortment for the location planner.

Product Allocation/Stock Allocation:

• Adjust and balance forward allocations to ensure required units per store are met.
• Monitor units for new store openings and report on variances.
• Finalize allocations and assist with store consolidations.
• Identify issues with store size service levels and store cover ratio, assisting with action plans.

QUALIFICATIONS

Degree/Diploma in:

• BCOM: General, Business Science, Accounting, Mathematics, Statistics, Economics, Finance, Strategic Management, Supply Chain, Retail, or Logistics.