Merchandise Planner | Sports | Dubai

28 أكتوبر، 2022

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Job Description

Gulf Marketing Group is one of the Middle East's leading, family owned companies. Operating across the GCC, Gulf Marketing Group is a dynamic group boasting a diverse portfolio of retail outlets, brands and consumer and B2B services across key sectors such as healthcare and pharmaceuticals, sports and fitness, real estate, education and technology.
Job Summary
Merchandise planning is aimed at a systematic approach for planning and controlling the inventory and sales of the product range to increase the sales and minimize the losses by forecasting the future trends in the market.
Core Responsibilities:

Planning: To develop plans by working out replenishment strategies to make the business yield more profits
Management: He should maintain contacts with the vendors in order to ensure timely delivery of the goods and make sure that the inventory plans are executed to meet the required standards. He should maintain records and update them to support the business requirements
Production Management: He should partner with several merchants to forecast the future trends. He should establish, maintain and predict the exact demand and ensure that the products are delivered on time. He should also make sure that there are no shortages at the distributor or warehouse level. He should work out effective strategic plans so as to liquidate products in a profitable way
Financial Planning: He should manage and develop effective weekly, monthly, quarterly and yearly merchandise plans. He should assist in communicating comprehensive product and financial strategies. He is also involved in the pricing procedures in order to achieve the goals set by an organization. He should be able to analyze the trends based on the historic performance and should keep himself updated with the latest trends in the market. This in turn will enable him to forecast the future trends to increase the sales.

About the requirements:
The minimum educational requirement for an associate merchandise planner is a bachelor's degree in operations, finance, business or retail management. A demonstrated merchandising experience will prove to be an edge over the competitors.