Assistant Manager- FOC Trading & Planning

Key Objectives:

• Manage a team of 2 traders and take up responsibility for Upper North and West region of Puma Factory Outlets. The resource will also be responsible for trading aspects of few strategic key accounts apart from FOCs.
• In-season Trading & Analysis - responsible for ensuring availability of right stock at right place at right time thereby enabling sales achievement
• Collaborate with VM & Retail Operations to ensure seasonal rollout is aligned and implemented
• To ensure incoming new season BFO stock to be launched is sent to respective doors in a timely manner as per plan
• To execute accurate replenishment and to ensure stock holding is healthy at a SKU level to avoid lost sales opportunity
• To manage RTV to warehouse & stock consolidation in between stores to reduce slow moving merchandise and improve the store assortment
• To work closely with buying team and ensure buys are placed at right pockets as per requirement forecasted/strategic inputs
• Responsible for Pricing and Promotion setup, ensuring delivery of planned Net sale, markdown %, GP% and MGP
• Drive weekly, monthly reporting and analysis and present the same in sales review for your region. Drive necessary actions to achieve targets.
• Constantly aim to improve efficiency of replenishment, allocation and prune the allocation/replenishment tool inputs to achieve the ideal SKU level inventory state
• In addition to the above activities pertaining to FOCs, resource will also be responsible for allocation and re plans for few strategic key accounts

Eligibility Criteria and Functional Competencies Required:

• MBA/MFM/B.F. Tech from reputed institute with 3-5 years of relevant experience
• Excellent writing, presentation, communication and organization skills
• Analytical and Numerical skills
• People Management
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work based on business importance
• Willingness to learn new technology/tools as required by business