Associate- FOC Trading & Planning

Key Objectives:

• The resource will be responsible for Upper North region of FOC and along with few strategic key accounts
• 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 for respective region
• Drive weekly, monthly reporting and analysis and present the same in sales review. Drive actions to achieve targets.
• Constantly aim to improve efficiency of replenishment, allocation and prune the 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
• Excellent writing, presentation, communication and organization skills
• Analytical and Numerical skills
• Ability to multitask and prioritize work based on business importance
• Willingness to learn new technology/tools as required by business