Merchandise Planning Assistant

Job description

📢 Job Opportunity: Merchandise Planning Assistant 📢

🏢 Location: Dubai, UAE
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🔍 About Chalhoub Group:
- For over six decades, Chalhoub Group has been a partner and creator of luxury experiences in the Middle East.
- The Group excels as a hybrid retailer, reinforcing its distribution and marketing services with a portfolio of eight owned brands and over 300 international brands in luxury, beauty, fashion, and art de vivre categories.
- More recently, the Group expanded into luxury watches, jewellery, and eyewear.
- Every step at Chalhoub Group is taken with the customer at heart, constantly reinventing itself or focusing on innovation to provide luxury experiences at over 750+ experiential retail stores, online, and through mobile apps.
- Today, Chalhoub Group stands for 14,000 skilled and talented professionals across seven countries, being ranked third in the Middle East and first in Saudi Arabia as a Great Place to Work®.
- To keep the innovation journey going, the Group has set up “The Greenhouse,” an innovation hub, incubator space, and accelerator for start-ups and small businesses.

🌟 What You'll Be Doing:
- Support in providing weekly, monthly and yearly sales reporting and summary of key performance indicators relating to sales, sell through, stock, profit, and markdown versus budget and last year.
- Support with maintaining key files (Master Orders, OTB templates) that drive the planning and trading process throughout the season.
- Providing crucial support to the Merchandising team by analyzing sales trends, monitoring deliveries, and maintaining stock levels.
- Work with the Senior Coordinators, Merchandisers and Buyers to control deliveries, allocations, and replenishment.
- Responsible for creating Brand Business Reviews for Buying and CEO appointments.
- Ensure that the markdown master file is aligned to the markdown calendar and integral data is kept updated with the brands carryover and markdown lists.
- Run daily sales reports, communicating vital sales and stock information vs budget and LY.
- Support the Merchandising team to identify products for promotional and markdown activities.
- Assist the Merchandising team during the planning and OTB process including Basics forecasting and EOS lessons learnt.
- Support the Merchandising and Buying team with pre-market analysis packs.
- Manage data integrity such as seasonality and pricing.
- Serve as the key contact for merchandise reporting and all aspects of merchandising processes and system use.
- Provide any other ad hoc administration required within the merchandising function.

🌟 What You’ll Need to Succeed:
- Fluent in written and spoken English.
- Knowledge of Excel and MS Office.
- Passionate about products, with strong market and brand awareness.
- Exceptionally organized, methodical, and efficient.
- Strong time management skills and ability to meet stringent deadlines.
- Proactive in their approach to tasks and development.

🌟 What We Can Offer You:
- Turn your aspirations into reality with enriching experiences, learning and development opportunities, and exposure to different assignments within your role or through internal mobility.
- Diverse career paths for those who are extraordinary, every day.
- Competitive benefits package including health care, child education contribution, remote and flexible working policies, and exclusive employee discounts.

🌍 We Invite All Applicants to Apply:
- It takes diversity of thought, culture, background, differing abilities, and perspectives to truly Inspire, Exhilarate, and Delight our customers.
- At Chalhoub Group, we are committed to inclusion and diversity.
- We welcome all applicants to apply and be part of our exciting future.
- We ensure equal opportunity for all our applicants without regard to gender, age, race, religion, national origin, or disability status.