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Planner Clothing
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!The Clothing – Planner ensures the right products reach the right stores at the right time. By using data to forecast demand and manage stock levels, the Planner supports buying decisions that drive sales, maximize profit, and meet customer needs.
Minimum requirements
BCom Degree or relevant qualification in Business, Finance, or related field
3–5 years of proven experience in Clothing Retail Planning
Proficient in Microsoft Office (Outlook, Word, Excel)
Willingness to work extended hours when needed and conduct regular store visits
Previous experience in a clothing retail environment is essential;
SAP knowledge will be an advantage
Competencies
Strong numerical acumen with a passion for fashion and retail trends
In tune with market movements and deeply understands our customer base
Detail-oriented with the ability to work efficiently and respond quickly in a fast-paced environment
Clear and confident communicator across teams and levels
Strong analytical thinker with solid administrative and organizational skills
Proactive, assertive, and full of positive energy
Growth-minded, self-motivated, and always looking for opportunities to learn and improve
Key responsibilities
Plan seasonal sales budgets by category in line with business objectives.
Collaborate with the Buyer to implement financial strategies and achieve set budgets.
Contribute to establishing a clear and effective pricing architecture.
Develop and manage assortment plans to align with strategy and maintain target margins.
Continuously monitor performance through weekly reports, adjusting for fast and slow sellers as needed.
Prepare and plan effectively for promotions and markdowns to optimize sales and stock levels.
Closing date:2 June 2025
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!
Food Technologist
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!To ensure product range, product specification, quality, packaging and food safety requirements are adhered to at supplier base and in store.
Minimum Requirements
Food Technologist diploma or post graduate degree with 2-5 years’ experience in the relevant food related field
Strong understanding of Fresh Produce and category-specific legislation.
Ability to integrate food safety aspects into product development process
Must be familiar with the applicable regulations (DALRRDFF); Standards (SANS), Labelling regulation R146 (DOH), Hygiene R638 General Hygiene requirements for Food premises, the transport of food and related matters (DOH) and industry related guidelines (CFA)
Must be computer literate (MS Office Programmes)
Competencies
Ability to constantly identify discrepancies, inconsistencies and mistakes.
Controls Quality and Standards
Results Orientation/Drive Initiative
Be able to gather reviews and interprets information to identify trends, draw conclusions and generate appropriate responses
Need to be able to work systematic, thorough and independently
Ability to work together in a spirit of co-operation and teamwork
Able to establish and maintain relationships with all stakeholders
Always searches for improvement in order to achieve better results through new ideas, methods and approaches
Positively influences the opinions, attitudes and behaviour of others
Have good admin skills in relation to timely and accurate report writing, communication and summary collation.
Key Responsibilities
Building Supplier relationships & verifying suppliers’ adherence to regulations, standards and PnP requirements
Effective management of product and packaging information in terms of accuracy, relevance, availability and adherence by suppliers to specifications, regulations and PnP standards
Ensure that quality and food safety standards are being maintained at all stages of the supply chain.
Product Quality and Food Safety Management
Quality assurance including product testing and product assesments
Manage Customer complaints
Ensure that product range remains up to date & relevant to industry and stays up to date with industry trends.
Search for improvement in order to achieve better results through new ideas, methods and approaches.
Assist with new product developments through factory trials, product analysis (chemical, microbiological and physical analysis), shelf life and packaging analysis
Effective management of product specifications in terms of accuracy, relevance, availability and adherence by vendors.
Maintain an organized category through time management, effective administration & saving onto SharePoint.
Attend supplier meetings with buyers, providing supplier product or facility information.
Conduct product benchmarking
Store visits to assess quality
Closing date: 31 MAY 2025
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!
Buying Clothing
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!
Supply Chain Planner
It’s fun to work in a company where people truly BELIEVE in what they’re doing!Ensure the effective execution of the flow of stock through the value chain in order to achieve sales growth, availability, waste, working capital and reducing distribution costs. Integrate with cross functional stakeholders to understand strategies and targets and translate this into qualitative forecasts, sales plans and vendor orders.
BCom Logistics/Degree in Quantitative Analytics/Operational Research/Industrial Engineering/Applied Mathematics (RPL)
SQL (Structured Query Language), Power BI and Access advantageous
2 years Retail, Supply Chain or Planning experience and/or at least 1 year PnP-specific experience
COMPETENCIES:
Analysis
Conceptual Thinking
Data Accuracy & Attention to Detail
Judgement & Decision Making
Drive
Flexibility
Positive, willing attitude
Networking/Liaison
Organisational Awareness
Influencing
Verbal & Written Communication
Business Insights
Environmental Scanning
Prioritising Tasks
Monitoring
Sales Plan
Create sales plan:
Create weekly sales plans for assigned categories using the module document and Standardised T-4 planning process.
Consolidate all inputs required to plan for promotions, cannibalization, events, seasonal/weather/price changes, and plan accordingly.
Use annualization trend reports to understand previous year sales base compared to current year and identify trade opportunities where there are gaps.
Use standardised planning and reporting tools for accurate sales planning and execution
Understanding the business sales plans and strategy and base your category forecast on these plans.
Plan for upcoming promotions by extracting upcoming promotional information from the Adnote tool and adhering to the relevant T – 5 Promotional planning processes.
Create a sales and execution plan for new article and seasonal launches.
Plan for store specific nuances i.e. changing trends, revamps, new stores and for store specific events communicated by the Store Execution Team
Follow the DILO & Rhythm document as set and communicated by your line manager
Incorporate historical forecast accuracy into future planning process and numbers to drive more accurate sales planning and forecasting.
Liaise with business on the sales plan:
Follow a set weekly rhythm with commercial teams to understand sales strategies and agree on forecast values at T-3
Share weekly sales plan with divisional teams and distribute agreed sales forecast numbers at T-2.
Escalate significant differences between sales targets, commercial sales plan and the retail sales forecast.
Operational Execution
Sales Plan Execution:
Load forecast DIFs in SAP to ensure the system forecast reflects your category sales plan and promotional forecast.
Follow processes and methods communicated by line management to ensure all forecast uploads are accurate.
Ensure replenishment parameters are set correctly to reflect the sales plan and forecast accurately.
Revise min display rules on a regular basis to ensure optimized min display settings.
Ensure in-week forecast profiles are set correctly to accurately reflect in-week sales demand of stores and articles. Ensure that shelf life is set correctly in SAP for lines linked to assigned category.
Ensure replenishment master data fields are set correctly for accurate and correct execution of system replenishment.
T-Action and Monitoring:
Make use of available standardized reports and tools for daily execution and monitoring of orders and sales plans.
Monitor orders daily to ensure order trends reflect sales plan and in-week forecast distribution.
Track sales, waste, working capital and availability KPIs daily to ensure sales plans are executed correctly.
Monitor sales vs forecast and adjust sales plans accordingly to ensure forecast and replenishment parameters reflect customer demand.
Work through daily and weekly KPI exceptions (available on the story board report for fresh categories) and take action as per guidance provided by your line manager.
Highlight and escalate any KPI or operational risks identified and work with your line manager to resolve identified issues.
Understand root cause on high returns and implement solutions that will proactively reduce/avoid returns.
Execute New article and/or seasonal launches in adherence with the launch process.
Manage DC stock holding on bulk lines and take responsibility for the ordering process and maintaining target stock levels in all DC’s.
Execute the ordering of imports stock according to the plan set by line management.
Execute end to end promo planning process, by engaging with stakeholders and adhering to the T-5 promotional process.
Analyse the New & Revamp store report and take action on poor availability lines.
Resolve specific availability, sales growth or waste issues escalated by regions or the Store Execution Team (SET).
Execute the Own-brand strategy set by line management.
Revise previous week:
Revise previous week performance and incorporate into planning processes for current and upcoming weeks.
Report on any post promo overstocks and escalate articles and stores requiring further action to avoid waste.
Make use of standardised reports to tools to understand the root cause of low availability and implement solutions to proactively reduce/avoid out of stocks. Escalate root causes that is not within the control of the supply chain planning department.
Make use of standardised reports to tools to understand the root cause of waste and implement solutions to proactively reduce/avoid excessive waste. Escalate root causes that is not within the control of the supply chain planning department.
Escalate store stock accuracy issues to line management.
Category Profitability
Provide input on promo & pricing strategies based on category performance and annualization
Provide input on range based on sales, waste and profitability
Support maximized deal price purchases by ordering more stock for promo lines during the deal price period. Only for lines where applicable Identify opportunities to increase category profitability by using a profit levers tool or something similar
Support Vendor Growth Hurdles and strategic Buy-ins (Category Profitability) by executing the plan provided by the planning line manager.
Understand the elements that contribute to improved category GP and work with commercial teams to achieve set targets.
Work with commercial and store teams to plan for the effective ordering and execution of service counter/in-store departments.
Work with commercial and logistics teams to implement ways of work that will drive increased franchisee buy-in participation.
Stakeholder Engagement
Build & maintain good working relationship with all stakeholders
Internal Stakeholders:
Collaborate with required internal stakeholders to create accurate and realistic sales plans that reflect business, category and promotional strategies.
Follow the commercial integration rhythm as set by your line manager.
Communicate sales plans to the SCP DC volume management team to ensure accurate DC volume planning and execution
Work closely with the technical team to ensure the accurate maintenance of shelf life in SAP. Ensure all quality related issues are incorporated into sales plans.
Communicate with the SET on store specific issues and accompany them on store visits – 1 per quarter
Work with New Product Development teams to ensure the timeous execution of new product launches.
External Stakeholders:
Share promotional forecast with vendors as set out in the T-4 promo planning process.
Work with vendors and commercial to understand the root cause of poor strike rate and work on solutions to proactively avoid strike rate issues.
Liaise with vendors following a formalized Vendor Collaboration process. Act as vendor champion as and when required.
Self-Management and Teamwork
Contribute to a positive, constructive working environment.
Share insights with peers on improved ways of work and utilisation of reports, tools and processes.
Ensure effective (clear and concise) communication with line manager, peers and stakeholders
Calm self and others during stressful times and keep a positive attitude.
Maintain positive working relationships with team members by building trust and treating them with respect.
Take ownership and accountability for tasks and activities and demonstrate effective self-management.
Contribute to an encouraging and motivating working environment.
Adhere to Pick n Pay values.
Value Chain Costs
Have a good understanding of value chain cost and income components and the role planning plays to influence these levers.
Ensure order patterns of assigned categories conform to the required in-week order distribution set for each DC.
Identify and escalate inefficient pack sizes
Implement mixed lugs as and when required
Provide input in vendor-specific projects & improvements that contribute to value chain efficiencies.
Execute vendor collaboration and efficiency plans as set out by the planning manager.
Execute operational plans communicated by line manager to maximize DC Margin.
Assist with the centralization of vendors into PnP DCs.
If you like wild growth and working with happy, enthusiastic over-achievers, you’ll enjoy your career with us!
We wish you all the best
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